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Lately UPI's 'Odd News' section has consisted of innocuous OOP animals stories. During the last few months there have been a lot of 'bear entering and trashing the family car' stories.
This one stands out from the rest ... The owner / driver is the one who inadvertently shut the bear up within her van. Somehow she didn't notice there was a bear inside. Hence my posting this in the Silly Mistakes thread ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/0...kitchen-in-North-Carolina/6731537279074/?sl=7
This one stands out from the rest ... The owner / driver is the one who inadvertently shut the bear up within her van. Somehow she didn't notice there was a bear inside. Hence my posting this in the Silly Mistakes thread ...
Bear ransacks van, raids kitchen in North Carolina
A North Carolina woman who unknowingly closed a bear inside her van said the bruin escaped through a window and raided a neighbor's kitchen.
Nicole Minkin Lissenden said she was visiting her parents' house in Asheville while they were out of town during the weekend.
Lissenden said the doors of her 2008 Honda Odyssey had been left unlocked and a friend who was passing by stopped to tell her the door was open and there was trash on the ground next to her vehicle.
The woman said it wasn't until after she had closed the door that she realized a bear was inside.
"I certainly didn't think it was in the car, so I closed the door at that point and went back inside," Lissenden told the Asheville Citizen Times. "About 30 minutes later, I went back out to get something out of the car, and I noticed all the windows were fogged up and there were paw prints on the windows." ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/0...kitchen-in-North-Carolina/6731537279074/?sl=7