Where does a Yuppie migrant farmer pick lettuce? The salad bar, of course. However, in Ketchikan, AK, the supply of lettuce might be a bit interrupted at the moment…
Seems the bears way up North are getting smarter. I mean, why forage far and wide when you can simply waltz into the nearest grocery and help yourself to the produce. Which one bear did recently. He made quite a mess, too; seems the artichokes weren’t fresh or something.
At this point I shall refrain from the obvious, such as “The store owner simply had to grin and bear it.” Or the ever-popular “The pain and anguish was unbearable.”
The situation didn’t turn grizzly, at least. The locals knew how to deal with this sort of intrusion into human commerce; they didn’t lose their bearings. After a short pawse to take a video they corralled the small ursinoid and headed him out the back door of the shop, where a path leads into the nearby woods. No harm, no foul. Unless you consider the vegetables. Although I don’t think he got the strawbearies. (No word on whether the asparagus survived the visit; if it did, that’s certainly a foul of some sort.) At least it got no fur-ther than that.
Fortunately they felt no need to shoot the little feller. The young black bear is thought to be an orphan; maybe they should name him Yogi, since he’s smarter than the average bear, fur sure…
Enjoy the (Wacky Wildlife) Heat!
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