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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Brazen black bear believed responsible for 21 break-ins
2010-08-06
BILLINGS, Mont. -- A brazen black bear with a late-night hankering for supreme pizza surprised a Montana resident last week, and it's not the first time the animal has eluded capture.
Is it racist to call a black bear "brazen" or is it racist to call a brazen bear "black"? I'm confused.
The bear is believed responsible for about 21 break-ins in the Red Lodge area in south-central Montana over the past few weeks.

In the most recent heist, Marek Rosin said he awoke at about 1:30 a.m. on July 29 to find the bear had pushed open the door to his back porch and was raiding his chest freezer. "He was about four feet from me with his head in the freezer munching on a pizza," Rosin said. "It was almost comical if it wouldn't have been that close."

Rosin scared the bear off before it could eat anything more.
Must have been the scream
Most of the break-ins involve the bear climbing through a screened window or breaking through a screen door to access picnic baskets refrigerators or freezers, said Shawn Stewart, a Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist. Stewart said he thinks a single adult black bear is causing most of the problems. Two culvert traps were set up, but the bear has avoided them. Another bear was captured and relocated.

Over the past four days, no new reports of bear break-ins have come in. It's unknown if the bear might have left the area.
Or he got tired of frozen pizzas
Bear incidents are also being reported south of Bozeman, east of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and around Jackson Hole, Wyo. "It's fairly widespread," Stewart said.
Posted by:Steve

#10  D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, WALT DISNEY > ITS THE "BEAR NECESSITIES...OF LIFE" [Song + Toons].

[Walt Disney "Panic Bear/Dance" here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-08-06 23:14  

#9  Yogimullah Hussein Bear. Not a big bacon fan.
Posted by: Skunky Glins****   2010-08-06 20:14  

#8  Uh, uh, the BABE BACK IN THE CAVE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO COOK BERRIES + SALMON???

Gut nuthin.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-08-06 20:09  

#7  Perhaps if you baited them with pizza?

Nope. Bacon and Peanut Butter. Bears love it.
Posted by: Thromomp Stalin4312   2010-08-06 19:51  

#6  I wonder if "Yogi" is short for "Tyrone"?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-08-06 18:34  

#5  Try the tried and true 30-06 trap.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-08-06 17:50  

#4  This is supposed to be new? The majority of the break-ins, I'd bet, happen at vacations spots for the rich or idiotic.
Posted by: miscellaneous   2010-08-06 15:53  

#3  Two culvert traps were set up, but the bear has avoided them. Another bear was captured and relocated.

Perhaps if you baited them with pizza?

Over the past four days, no new reports of bear break-ins have come in. It's unknown if the bear might have left the area.

Or he broke into the wrong house and is now, literally, in their freezer - as several butcher-paper wrapped packages.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2010-08-06 15:50  

#2  You'd think they'd been born in a barn or something.
They have no manners whatsoever.

Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous   2010-08-06 15:20  

#1  "Hey Boo-Boo, lookee here, no more pic-a-nic baskets for me."
"Gee Yogi, I don't think the Ranger is going to like this."
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2010-08-06 14:57  

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