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
No, but he was sharpening some...................
Well now ... there’s trouble bruin
LOL! I love puns!..............
+1
Lol!
I love that bear. :)
We used to use donuts for bait when we were fishing for bear.
Dad would be driving the pickup and I’d be in the back with a line out with a donut for bait.
A bear would take the donut and then Dad would stop the pickup while I reeled in the bear.
Dad would be in the cab of the pickup eating donuts and drinking coffee and listening to Johnny Cash on the radio while the bear was kicking the crap out of me.
I screamed for him to throw me a weapon so he threw me his comb. I couldn’t find the natural part in the bear’s hair so the comb did me no good.
You know how fishing boats have fish finders? Well the pickup had a bear finder. It was our dog Tiger.
Worthless coward. Never once came back to help me land a bear. He’d be sitting on the seat barking with little pieces of donut shooting out from his mouth. Dad would be petting him going, “Oh, that’s a Grizzly he’s got on the line, Tiger. He’ll make a nice trophy if he doesn’t eat the kid. Want another donut?”
It’s like my Dad said, “Bear fishing will make a man out of you.....or it might make a meal out of you. I look at it as a win either way.”
They live in bear country and admit the car smells of donuts. Yet, they park the car outside of their garage. Stupid is as stupid does.
LOL!..........Very good!............
Just the bear facts, ma’am.....................
You reminded me of National Lampoon’s dogfishing story.
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