Bear news updates

We haven't covered bears breaking into houses and restaurants and stealing people's food in a while, but it definitely hasn't stopped happening:

-Black bear breaks into Idaho kitchen

A black bear in search of a late-night snack broke into an Idaho house and licked leftover Chinese food from a cast iron pan on the stove.

    David Edwards of Ketchum told the Idaho Mountain Express that his dog’s barking awakened him around 3 a.m. Monday.

    When he went to investigate what had his Irish setter-Lab mix so upset, he saw the bear on its hind legs, paws on the stove, licking a pan.

-Boy Texts Mom: ‘There’s a Bear Sleeping on the Porch!’ 

The MacDonough children were at their Naples home with the babysitter while mom Alice had just gone out for lunch, when the furry creature lumbered up to the enclosed patio, and settled in for some shuteye.

Ordering the children to get down on hands and knees, the babysitter had them crawl to a back bedroom and hide out, with 7-year-old Mason MacDonough furiously texting his mom about the unbearable situation.

"Mom!! there’s a bear in the lana not outside inside our porch help” “!!!!”
“not jokin”
“Next too couch outside help!!!”
“He’s sleeping”
“Sleeping that’s right”
“The bear sleeping in the Lana”
“Inside the Lana”
“Omg”
“!”
“Sleeping omg”
“What do we do”

Eventually, the bear answered the question, rousing itself and lumbering off while children and babysitter waited.

MacDonough told CNN she thinks she knows what the bear is coming for, and it’s not honey. Pizza and Chinese takeout were snatched from her neighbor’s home just the other day, leaving the fruits and veggies behind.

And finally, as illustrated above: Bear Steals Dumpster From Restaurant Twice In 24 Hours