All that for a Weight-Watchers fruit bar? Not worth it. Think the bear would agree.

I get this vision of Barney Fyfe attempting to "tie a rope" to the door handle of this SUV -- has anyone attempted to tie a rope to a doorhandle since, uh, 1972, when they started making them flush with the car door? How much time went by when someone could have simply walked up, opened the door and watched the bear bolt, since it was rather obvious the bear wanted outta there and the DOOR would have been a shield from it?

Wonder how they'll try to explain "interior needs a touch-up" when they sell it on Craig's list.

The report didn't mention that the SUV was the new entry by VW into the SUV market, the VW Osopeest. (See sp. translation.)

Good lord. Imagine what it would do for an entire pick-a-nick basket?

Or a Klondike Bar....

For sure! That is probably what made him so mad. Here he thought he had had found some food, only to discover that he had been tricked by cleverly disguised cardboard!

Well I guess that's a lesson to everyone. Don't leave your doors unlocked with food inside because you can't trust those delinquent bears who ruin it for the rest.

good one -- but are you talking about the packaging or the fruit bar?


After watching that clip several times, I think that the whole story is a hoax. First, that woman Jean looks kinda shifty. Second, she says she came out late that night to find the SUV violently "rocking back and forth," yet she failed to say that her 17-year-old son had borrowed the car for his hot date that night. My theory is that once she went inside to call the police, her son, realizing he'd been caught with his proverbial pants down, ditched his date and doused the car's interior with honey, not gasoline, luring an innocent bear inside to take the rap.

The bear, though, just sat there licking the seats, and with the ruse up, the son confessed to his mother what had really happened. With the police on the way, mother and son made up a devious plan, since she was four payments behind on the SUV and about to get it repo'd.

So she throws in those Weight Watchers bars and three cans of [b]Red Bull [/b]through a gap in the window, knowing that caffeine is 98 percent of the active ingredients in one of those Fruity, Nutty Madness weight-loss bars (verified 1:18 into the news clip.)

By the time the Jefferson County deputies get there the bear is in a crazed java rampage and the woman who knows that her insurance company will total the SUV is already, as the reporter stated, "car shopping."

You have to admit that my explanation is as plausible as any CSI: Miami storyline that ever aired.

... Only if the bear dramatically puts on and takes off his sunglasses repeatedly.

Good lord, phat, you don't mean this:

David

Caruso

acting.

At the marina I'm at here in Miami, I've seen more expression from the cops that come into the adjacent "Bird Preserve" (mostly trapped or abandoned cats dumped from the mainland that have apparently eaten the now missing birds) while they are snoozin' in their patrol cars.

Yes

When you check into the tent cabins at Camp Curry in Yosemite, there is a little movie playing about bear safety. There is also an old Toyota in the parking lot (at least it was there a couple of years ago) with a couple of the doors torn off by a bear looking for something to eat.

I don't think they see cars as much of a deterrent. Kind of like tearing open a juice pack when you are that strong.