Black bear falls asleep in dumpster. Taken 65 miles to Fresno dump
Cinnamon fell asleep in a dumpster, officials said. Then he woke up at a dump in Fresno and ran away, workers watched him run up a hill, across the ridge and as he hid near a fence and was tracked down moments later.
"It involved crawling through some bushes and putting a tranquilizer dart in it," Fidler said.
Cinnamon wasn't hurt, but the tranquilizer put him asleep. The next time he wakes up, he'll be home; where he belongs.
When the call crackled across Fresno police radio, even officers were incredulous:
“Report of a bear at Orange and North …”
But as patrol cars and pursuing reporters and photojournalists rolled in, they found it was true: There was a black bear – sort of orangish-red, actually – ambling near a ponding basin at the Orange Avenue dump in south Fresno.
There were witnesses.
“He’s right in there,” a dump worker shouted to Lt. Joe Gomez, as he pointed to some heavy brush along Orange Avenue.
“That’s crazy,” someone said to Gomez.
“Yes, it is,” laughed Gomez, who serves as the police spokesman and now appeared to be ad hoc leader of a hastily assembled bear hunting expedition.
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Who can resist petting an unconscious bear? Photo at link below
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he just had an adventure 
...to tide him over for the winter. And he's foraging out of his range. 
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