update

it was discovered that the son had left a peanut butter sandwich in the car that had lured the bear

the car got knocked into neutral and rolled

police (or game control officer) were able to lure the bear out of the car

the car was totalled




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Bear breaks into car in Larkspur
Hendrik Sybrandy KDVR Denver
3:11 PM MDT, July 23, 2010

 
The Story family awoke to the sound of their car horn honking, only to discover this black bear trapped inside the vehicle. Larkspur, Colorado. (July 23, 2010)
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LARKSPUR, Colo. - A Larkspur family is reliving its close encounter with a car thief Friday morning. But this wasn't just any car thief... it was an adult and very menacing black bear.

The bear managed to get into Ben Story's Toyota Corolla, put the car into neutral and send the vehicle skidding over one hundred feet into some trees on the family's property.

"The destruction is amazing," said Story. "He tore everything up and managed not to miss one little square inch of the car, he got it all."

A neighbor of the Storys first heard the car honking shortly after two a.m.. When Douglas County Sheriff's Deputies arrived, they spotted the bear inside the vehicle. The Story family of five was asleep inside their house and never heard any commotion.

Ralph Story said his 17-year-old son had left a peanut butter sandwich inside the vehicle and said the scent of the food undoubtedly prompted the bear to break in and enter.

"He was locked in the car and couldn't get out and the police didn't know what to do," he said.

The sheriff's deputies ultimately attached rope to one of the car doors, opened the door from a distance and let the bear scamper away.

Damage to the inside of the Toyota was extensive. Ralph Story said his insurance agent has told him the car will be a total loss.

Story said that bears are part of the scenery in the Larkspur area but he said a close encounter like this one has never happened to his family before.

"When you live out here you better expect those thing to happen."


this is the actual report from Larkspur, Colorado  (?Denver)


go to story for pics   (search: colorado  bear trapped in car)


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hehe ... could have been a combination of the peanut butter sandwich AND the airconditioning?

Funny!

I haven't seen a bear in my area, other than the Zoo. I live so far away from them maybe that's why I haven't seen one.

We've had a rash of bear sitings in our area as well.  police have been called, biologist. bears have been tranqued and carted to other locations ... sometimes serveral counties away and yet there have been a few that have found their way back to the same locatilty they were trapped in.  one recently was reproted to have been tagged several times.  most of these sitings and trappings have been the yearlings (cubs from last year's litters)

local incident was where one was spotted running through the yards and had climbed a tree. the biologist/ game warden tranqued the bear up in the tree and instead of falling out of the tree like they had figured would happen the bear fell asleep in the tree so the ladder truck was brought in to get the bear out of the tree (police and firemen all at one point were on the scene) and then place in the 'barrel" used for transporting bears to other locations.

last year we had a bear that kept returning to the area ... even after several transportation (to locations farther away each time) he still found his way back

and yes big attractants are the simple things liek bird feeders, garbage cans, they are also the easy things so that the bear does not have to work for din-din  (like fishing or roaming for miles finding bushes with berries,  and yes too there are some food delicaices that are not available all year round - so they wander in search of anything to eat)
male bears (boars) have a wider search range than the females (sows), the males will roam in approximately a 300 mile diameter circle area where the sows only roam for about 100 miles (possibly because they are not as large but also they usually have cubs in tow)     and the areas they used to roam years ago were mostly wilderness areas and farms and now with man expanding into their lands there are more chances of contact as their ranges get smaller and smaller

Did they ask the bear for driver's license and registration?

Cooke City, Montana
Soda Creek Campsite

three cubs were with the female bear

traps were set up, hoping the bear would return to the site,

now the officials are awaiting results of the DNA testing from the saliva found on the victims



border issue --> doubt it .... Montana is tooo close to Canada, the AZ issue is for Mexico



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