Black Bear Gets Back Scratch, Steals Doughnut

Orlando Sentinel ^ | May 8, 2014 | Matt Mauney

[nickcarraway]

SNIP

Surveillance footage at Tuscarora State Park in Pennsylvania caught sneaky black bear in the act on May 1.

The bear is seen giving himself a back scratch using a trail camera post. The bear then approaches a trap, sticks its head inside to grab a doughnut and leaves.

[nickcarraway]

Video at site.

[GeronL]

Sounds like a big fail for the trap... lol

[jazusamo]

Smarter than the average bear. :-)

[TexasCajun]

Ahhhh ...it's so cute.

Smart too!

[dfwgator]

Guess he didn’t go for the whole pick-a-nick basket.

[bikerman]

Cop in a bear suit????

[freeagle]

In my youth we camped every summer in the High Sierra of Yosemite (back when Tioga Rd was ittle more than 1 1/2 paved lanes).

It was entertaining to watch how the bears outsmarted rangers... and outsmarted rangers..... and outsmarted rangers.

This video demonstrates that bears are still outsmarting rangers. In addition to the bears being smart, the rangers are still dumb.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Nope, they look even more human when you skin them out, bears, anyway.

[miss marmelstein]

I love the way the bear looks around to make sure no one is watching him.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Right. Why the heck did they put the food right at the entrance to the trap where the bear can get it by sticking just his head in? One would think that they would put the doughnut at the other end to force the bear into the trap to get it.

[teletech]

Yogi is that you?

[GeronL]

and a doughnut and not a salmon?

[InkStone]

Yeah, bears can seem cute and cuddly, but they can be killers:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/eryxAcsTcOA?rel=0

[Oratam]

[Organic Panic]

“No cops were harmed in the filming of this video”

[ExCTCitizen]

Yogi Bear?

[mabarker1]

Maybe another Bear was trying to catch a Ranger?

[GeronL]

We need to ask Boo-boo what he saw.

[mabarker1]

[GeronL]

That shows up as a black box with a white x