Dumpster Diving Bear Can’t Get Hot Dog Fix Via iPhone
Here’s an amusing story from thedenverchannel.com in Colorado. Apparently a hot dog diner has been under siege by one or more hungry bears. They are looking to pack on some pounds and they’re heading straight for the hot dogs in the dumpster. Actually, they’re eating whatever they can get their grubby bear paws on leading into hibernation. If only they could satisfy their hunger pangs by playing Get In My Belly. They could take their iPhone into the wintering den and feast all season long! The article is pretty entertaining and the folks who deal with bears all the time are certainly very tolerant.
“Diner workers have reinforced the plastic Dumpster lid with two-by-four boards and trucking straps, but the hefty invader just jumps up and down until the lid caves in.”
“When the bear pulls on the bait, he gets a shot of bear-spray right in the face. And he just loves that. He still comes back,” Henkel said. “We’ve shot him twice with rubber buck bullets that the DOW gave us. That didn’t work at all. He doesn’t care.” Henkel stayed up one night hosing the bear with a hot-sauce cannon that sprays 30 feet. ”It doesn’t hurt bears, it just makes them burn a little bit. He came four times that night and we shot him four times with hot sauce and he still came back every time,” Henkel said.
There is no evidence to suggest that the hot dog loving bear in CO is of any relation to the Alaskan Cruncher seen in the below clip from 2006. Keep Eating (unless you’re a dumpster diving bear)!
