Bear goes on drinking binge, passes out

[SeleucusNicator]

Linky:

Boozy bear plunders campers' beer
Black bear
Any beer cans in there?
A black bear went on a binge at a campsite in the US state of Washington - guzzling down some 36 cans of beer.

Campground workers were stunned to come across the bear sleeping off the effects in their grounds, surrounded by dozens of empty beer cans.

But this was no ordinary case of a bear with a sore head at Baker Lake resort, 80 miles (129km) northeast of Seattle.

He had apparently tried out and rejected the mass-market Busch beer in favour of local brand Rainier.

The bear appeared to have got into campers' cool boxes and used his teeth and claws to puncture the cans.

Beer trap

Fish and wildlife enforcement Sgt Bill Heinck said the bear tried one can of Busch and ignored the rest - then got stuck into three dozen cans of Rainier.

"We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and wondered what was going on until we discovered that there were a lot of beer cans lying around," camp worker Lisa Broxson was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.

She said the bear was chased away by wildlife agents, but returned the next day.

The agents decided to trap the bear with doughnuts, honey and, of course, two cans of Rainier beer. It did the trick and he was captured.

"This is a new one on me," Sgt Heinck said in an Associated Press report. "I've known them to get into cans, but nothing like this. And it definitely had a preference."

I wonder if Rainier is going to use this to promote themselves.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Is there some freaking law of nature that these articles get posted quicker on 'Poly than on CFC?

Anyway, good story. Obviously a bear with taste.

 

[Japher]

Is there some freaking law of nature that these articles get posted quicker on 'Poly than on CFC?

Than CG, which just ends in a spam fest, followed by a flame war, ending in pictures of some German guy in a bear outfit sheiting in the woods...

Hamms already has the bear as a spokesman

 

[Stevenpfo]

"But this was no ordinary case of a bear with a sore head at Baker Lake resort, 80 miles (129km) northeast of Seattle."

That was no bear ... It was just a Canadian tourist.

 

[Moss]

I've seen this a few times already...laughed every time.

 

[~Corsair#01~]

Well, this was just obviously just an elaborate hoax- a local drunkard OBVIOUSLY stole the beer, then a representative of Rainier noticed him, then planted a bear and several dozen empty cans of Rainier at the scene. It's surprising how gullible some people are...

 

[betazed]

I do not think this is a hoax. It has been printed in several newspapers and sites.

Here is the link from New York Times

 

[Perfection]

Nah, bears will eat or drink just about anything. I've seen 'em eat some pretty disgusting things.

 

[IglooDame]

Nah, bears will eat or drink just about anything. I've seen 'em eat some pretty disgusting things.

Precisely - I think the reason it is possibly a hoax is not that the bear drank the beer, it is that the bear refused to drink any of the Busch beer, which is nasty stuff but not unbearable.

 

[Perfection]

Precisely - I think the reason it is possibly a hoax is not that the bear drank the beer, it is that the bear refused to drink any of the Busch beer, which is nasty stuff but not unbearable.

Bears will usually go for tastier stuff first

 

[ComradeDavo]

Yet more proove beer is fundamentally good

 

[dgfred]

Precisely - I think the reason it is possibly a hoax is not that the bear drank the beer, it is that the bear refused to drink any of the Busch beer, which is nasty stuff but not unbearable.

If he would have drank that many Busch beers he wouldn't have ever been
awakened . Yuck and . If he did wake he would have had
a permanent headache.

 

[LLXerxes]

weird

Geez, 36 cans?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Probably 33cl cans, so 12 liters. I know people who claim to've drunk that over a night ...

 

[philippe]

poor bear drinking such lame beer.was it now jupiler....

 

[downwithgravity]

my friend once drank 30 beers in a night, and he's okay. err...as drunken college kids go. I'm kind of surprised that it actually made a bear pass out, considering that bear probably weighed, oh, 10 times as much?

 

[LLXerxes]

my friend once drank 30 beers in a night, and he's okay. err...as drunken college kids go. I'm kind of surprised that it actually made a bear pass out, considering that bear probably weighed, oh, 10 times as much?

30 would like, kill an average person

 

[philippe]

Uhm you aren't exactly Belgian aren't you?
30 is just about to get the most of us drunk.
(It isn't lethal thirty if you are used at drinking it )

 

[Perfection]

oh, 10 times as much?

If your freind was child maybe.

Adult black bears weigh about 400-500 pounds.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Well, 30 beers are about 1 liter of pure alcohol or 3 liters of vodka. Is this right?

I can only be awed at the remarcable Belgian performance of gobblind down that many beers. Yours truly generally stumbles and falls on his face after only one fifth of that number.