BEWD
August 2, 2013, 10:35pm
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When a bear spotted a dumpster behind a restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colo., he decided to hedge his bets and make off with the pile of garbage.
The theft, which was caught on surveillance video, has since gone viral with more than 2,000 shares on Facebook.
“Intruder stealing the dumpster last night,” Edelweiss Restaurant said on its Facebook page. “WOW. This must be the Mama.”
The 40-second clip shows the massive bear sniffing the dumpster located behind the restaurant. After climbing on top of the dumpster, the bear manages to push it out of the camera’s sight.
“He just grabbed right onto it,” Dieter Schnakenberg, Edelweiss Restaurant’s manager, told local 9 News on Thursday. The bear managed to push the garbage bin 50 feet to the parking lot, where he flipped it to get to the food inside, Sky Valley Chronicle reports.
This was the second time the 6-foot bear had a craving for German food. On Tuesday night, the bear made its first appearance. Both times the bear managed to wheel the dumpster to the parking lot to feast on the schnitzel and sausages.
“He must like our food. He does take out,” restaurant co-owner Helga Schnakenberg told THV 11. “It looks like he’s using a shopping cart.”
Restaurant owners recently installed the surveillance system after being the target of graffiti. “We just wanted to protect the place a little,” Schnakenberg said.
One Facebook commenter joked that the bear wanted to feast on the food at home. “I’ll take that to go!”
Had I not seen the video I would’ve thought this whole story was a bearfaced lie
I don’t think that restaurant can bear it for much longer…
Azure
August 2, 2013, 10:40pm
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C’mon - this is bearly news.
BEWD
August 2, 2013, 10:42pm
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^Dude, he robbed that restaurant with his bear hands…TWICE. I’d say that’s news
Azure
August 2, 2013, 10:45pm
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Minimal story - as bear-bones as it gets.
BEWD
August 2, 2013, 10:47pm
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Well excuse me for being a bugbear, it’s not like there was any staff on hand to bear witness to the crime. Luckily there was a camera out there
I think teddie would be beary proud of this thread right now.
Hotobu
August 2, 2013, 10:54pm
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This bear is a bigger winner than the Cubs will ever be.
maxx
August 2, 2013, 10:55pm
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BEAR …AM I DOING THIS RIGHT? I SAID FUCKING BEAR
BEWD
August 2, 2013, 10:55pm
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Wow you asskissing animal apologists are unbearable. What next, gonna advocate for a four legged thief’s right to bear arms?
edit@Hotobu: holy shit I lost my bearings there, that was great XD
I’m sure the restaurant can’t bear with these incidents any longer.
Ugh, that’s terrible. From personal experience with camping mistakes and urban raccoons, I can tell you that having your garbage strewn all over the place by animals–and then having to clean it up after –is a huge pain in the ursa.
The restaurant bears all!
That bear ate his share of wieners.
“Bear” being a slang term for a masculine gay man, you see.
Grin and Bear It!
apologizes to the forum for starting this bad pun train.
I guess the dumpster provided the *bear *necessities for him…
I was waiting for that one.
Wasted
August 3, 2013, 12:29am
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GIVE HIM THE FUCKING DUMPSTER SWIFTRAGE
