View Full Version : Bear opens unlocked SUV, tears up interior for health bars
Snowleopard
05-16-2009, 19:21
An example of how well black bears can smell food (video link):
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=13504666&src=news
This happened west of Denver.
World-Wide
05-16-2009, 21:38
An example of how well black bears can smell food (video link):
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=13504666&src=news
This happened west of Denver.
Guess I won't leave the honey/penut butter "Stinger" bars in the truck! ;)
Alaskanhkr23
05-16-2009, 21:49
LOL yeah they're tricky lil guys
GrubbyJohn
05-16-2009, 21:50
and they will get your tums from the glove box
An example of how well black bears can smell food (video link):
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=13504666&src=news
This happened west of Denver.
Actually, the bear was just miffed it wasn't an American vehicle.
When we paddled Woodland Caribou Provincial Park in western Ontario we left our van parked in the bush, about 85 miles from the nearest town.
We had been warned a problem bear was breaking into cars and tearing them up, including biting tires causing multiple flats. We were told not to leave any food or wrappers whatsoever in the vehicle (including canned food) and NOT TO EAT IN THE VAN ON THE WAY UP.
The rangers advised PineSol can be a "bear repellent" if liberally spread in, on and around the vehicle.
When we arrived at the put in there were several cars and trucks parked and the whole place smelled like a cleaning convention.
Cabin Fever
05-17-2009, 06:30
That lady said "it was painful" to watch the bear tear up her car. It's just a car and you know they were going to total that thing.
JokerJersey
05-17-2009, 15:57
That lady said "it was painful" to watch the bear tear up her car. It's just a car and you know they were going to total that thing.
My girlfriend (also hiking partner) works as an insurance claims agent and we always get a good laugh out of people who act like losing thier car is the single worst experience of thier life. She deals with people on a daily basis who call up in tears because thier SUV/BMW/Lexus or PT Cruiser got a ding in the fender and they "just don't know what they are going to do". Whether it is an accident, theft, or fire...as long as you survive, you can buy another car. It's just a "thing". People are silly.