Bear eats oatmeal in woman's kitchen

[tocqueville]

2 hours, 3 minutes ago

WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia - It was a real-life version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears — only in reverse — when a woman came home to find a young bear eating oatmeal in her kitchen.

The bear apparently entered through an open sliding glass door, broke a ceramic food container and started eating, West Vancouver police Sgt. Paul Skelton said.

"It sounds like a nursery rhyme, doesn't it?" Skelton said. "At least we have a health-conscious bear on our hands."

Three police officers who went to the home Thursday couldn't get the bear to budge, so authorities let the animal finish its meal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060619/ap_on_fe_st/oatmeal_eating_bear_2

[xchrom]

1. it was only polite to let the bear finish.

[Kajsa]

2. Yes it was! I'm glad the

police assessed the situation, saw the bear was non-threatening,
let him eat and be on his merry way.

Many animal control officers would have gone nuts.

Bravo for the Vancouver police!

[Wetzelbill]

3. I heard he was mad he couldn't find the brown sugar

:)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Good for him!

We've shrunken their habitat...The least we can do is give them a meal now and then.

[Initech]

5. What would happen if the bear was in Stephen Colbert's kitchen?

:evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

6. You should send him this story....

it will appear on the next "Threatdown".

[Porcupine]

7. But did it try all the chairs? Details people n/t.

.

[Vidar]

8. Canadian courtesy is so much better than American's

"send in the SWAT team approach".

[havocmom]

10. Or that bad-ass orange tabby one-cat-SWAT-team

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[Vidar]

14. Good one, Could be susceptible to holy hand grenades though.

[meow2u3]

9. Did the bear take a nap in the bed upstairs?

eom

[kwassa]

11. Probably trying to reduce his cholesterol

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. I swear this is turning into the summer of bears

there has also been a lot of bear sightings here in NJ recently...Colbert is right, bears are the biggest threat to this country

[Dukkha]

13. Bear in a Kitchen!

"I want this motherfucking bear out of the motherfucking kitchen!"