Posted on 05/24/2017 12:39:13 PM PDT by Red Badger
Todd and Kim Robertson are convinced their Ford Focus was targeted by a black bear because of the aroma of donuts that permeates inside. ===============================================================================================================================
Doughnut delivery drivers in Steamboat Springs might want to start looking over their shoulders.
Todd and Kim Robertson awoke early Monday to discover a black bear was so determined to break into their doughnut delivery vehicle, it ripped off the car's back bumper.
The Robertsons had no doubt about the bear's motives.
"It always reeks of doughnuts in there," Kim Robertson said.
The bear left a paw print on the car and left the scene after it couldn't successfully get into the Ford Focus.
The animal was long gone before the Robertsons discovered the damage and officers arrived.
The Robertsons own Moose Watch Café in downtown Steamboat. They use the vehicle to make wholesale doughnut deliveries around town.
It's also not uncommon for aprons that smell of doughnuts to be in the car waiting to be cleaned, the Robertsons said.
Todd Robertson said there were no doughnuts in the vehicle, which was parked in their driveway in the 3300 block of Columbine Drive, at the time of the bear encounter. But even the leftover smell of the sugary goodness appeared to attract the animal, which obviously had good taste.
Police officer John McCartin confirmed he could smell doughnuts just by standing outside the damaged vehicle.
"I guess if anyone is an expert about this, it's us," McCartin joked.
Kim Robertson joked that with bears now going after doughnuts in town, some of the pressure from "doughnut jokes" had been taken off of the local police for the week.
"They've been so great about this," Robertson said of the officers.
Bear activity has been picking up steadily in Steamboat this spring.
Officers were responding to a report of a bear near Eagleridge Road Tuesday morning.
Last month, a bear entered a car in the 2700 block of Burgess Creek Road and caused damage.
To reach Scott Franz, call 970-871-4210, email scottfranz@SteamboatToday.com or follow him on Twitter @ScottFranz10
AGAIN!?
Dang! Has this happened before?
I like this one in Colorado Springs from a few years back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaTAJrCubo
The bear prolly was just done visiting a weed shop there in the Springs and had the munchies!
Last week we had some snow and a cold, biting wind.
In the morning we could see the tracks of a small bear - he/she went from the front to the propane grill to the Kamado grill to the bird feeder then around the other side of the house and down a stairway.
We usually only get bears in October/November.
Define ‘small’...................
LOL-— ehehehe
By the way how do you like that Kamado grill?
“Define ‘small’...................”
Could tell from the paw prints. WAY bigger than any dog I’ve ever seen, but not 6” to 8” like the other bear prints we have had.
I live in Montana and saw a bear on a golf course in Minnesota once. The guy I was with was scared: ‘It’s a bear!’ It was the size of a black lab. We grow bigger bear here than Minnesota.
Biggest bears (plural) I’ve ever seen were Alaskan Brown bears. Got to see them very close up!
We get bears here in Florida, black bears, pretty big ones.................
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Don’t feed them donuts.
Bears down in Florida look like really big dogs, too.
Doesn’t make ‘em less dangerous, though. They are waaaaay to used to humans.
Here they rip apart garbage cans.....................
doughnuts sound good...
i made a lifetime friend out of a yellowstone bear once with a hostess twinkee
Was he craving a “bearclaw”?
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Wait till that lifetime buddy rips the door of your car off to get to the picnic basket that you obviously want to share with him!
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