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Bad News, Bears.

Three bears that snuck into a tatami mat factory in northern Japan and holed up inside for nearly a day have been captured, according to town officials.

A patrolling town official spotted the bears, believed to be a parent and two cubs, as they walked into a tatami factory on Wednesday morning in Misato, a town in Akita prefecture, where there has been a growing number of bear attacks reported in or near residential areas.

An owner of the tatami factory said he saw the bears walking outside but never thought they would come inside.

Town officials and police officers rushed to the site, each wearing a helmet and carrying a shield, and kept watch.

Media reports said the bears were later killed for fear that they would return to town and pose harm again if released.

Akita has logged a record 30 cases of bear attacks on people in 2023 alone, increasingly in residential areas.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/n...holed-up-in-factory-are-captured-1535653.html
 

Black bear lumbers in, grabs gummy bears at Lake Cowichan store​


“Then this little bugger has the nerve to sit at the end of my driveway, look at me and eat it,” says the owner of Tiptons Gas Bar.

...this small bag of five-cent gummy bears will do just fine. He gingerly snares the bag in his jaws, saunters past the stunned owner and out through the open door.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/black-bear-eats-gummy-bears-lake-cowichan
 
Sharon Hill said:

Black bear lumbers in, grabs gummy bears at Lake Cowichan store​


“Then this little bugger has the nerve to sit at the end of my driveway, look at me and eat it,” says the owner of Tiptons Gas Bar.

...this small bag of five-cent gummy bears will do just fine. He gingerly snares the bag in his jaws, saunters past the stunned owner and out through the open door.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/black-bear-eats-gummy-bears-lake-cowichan
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It's a Bears necessities for life?!
 
I hope this isn't a regional website that gets blocked because a bear casually roaming the house and opening the freezer is hilarious.

Bear raids freezer in Barkhamsted (Connecticut) home​

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/bear-raids-freezer-in-barkhamsted-home/3122906/
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Beware! Black Bears On Crack!

A Florida lawmaker wants the state to enact a “stand your ground”-style law against a scourge of what he describes as bears “that are on crack” kicking people’s doors down in the middle of the night.

At a hearing last week held by the House Infrastructure Strategies Committee, Republican state Rep. Jason Shoaf urged his colleagues to pass House Bill 87, which would allow Floridians to shoot bears if they fear “imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.”

Shoaf introduced the bill, titled “Taking of Bears,” last September, The Guardian reports. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, black bears are the only species of bear found in Florida.

“This bill is not about bears,” he told the committee last week. “Bears are cute and cuddly and an amazing creature ― those aren’t the bears we’re talking about in this bill. We’re talking about the ones that are on crack, and they break your door down and they’re standing in your living room growling and tearing your house apart.” So when you run into one of these crack bears, you should be able to shoot it. Period,” Shoaf said, adding that the bears have become “a major problem in the panhandle.”

He also lamented that Floridians can fatally shoot other people without fear of reprisal but aren’t afforded the same liberty when it comes to bears.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-bill-shoot-bears-on-crack_n_65c10ccae4b0dbc806ad885f
 
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