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Bear guzzles 36 beers, passes out at campground
CNN (Reuters) ^
| 19 August 2004
| Reuters
Posted on 08/19/2004 8:45:37 AM PDT by Egon
SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday.
"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," said Lisa Broxson, a worker at the Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles (129 kilometers) northeast of Seattle.
The hard-drinking bear, estimated to be about two years old, broke into campers' coolers and, using his claws and teeth to open the cans, swilled down the suds.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bear; beer; drunkenstupor; underageddrinking
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To: Melas
Sounds like an urban legend to me. Corn doesn't/won't ferment. Whiskey has to be distilled from corn. Ethanol = Gassy bears?
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:10:27 AM PDT
by
Egon
(Kerry in 1970: Don't suppose he voted FOR assasinating our leaders, before voting against it...)
To: Xenalyte
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:12:08 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(BTW - have I mentioned lately I'm sick and tired of rain?)
To: Xenalyte; Allegra; TheMom; humblegunner; Flyer; pax_et_bonum
I would like to get that bear and humble all liquored up and then have them rassle!!
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:14:22 AM PDT
by
Eaker
(R.I.P Tony Webb 10-Aug-04 - Phudd 28-Jun-04)
To: Prime Choice
Corn ferments and produces alcohol, same process as when apples turn into hard cider. That's only a step to producing whisky (or applejack). Distillation cleans it up and concentrates the active ingredient.
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:17:38 AM PDT
by
c-five
To: Eaker; Xenalyte; Allegra; TheMom; Flyer; pax_et_bonum
I would like to get that bear and humble all liquored up and then have them rassle!! If that sucker tries to bogart up all the beer he might need a little touching up.
To: Melas
>>Corn doesn't/won't ferment.
The Inca used to ferment corn and drink it--they called the ferment beverage, chicha. Which you can still find in some parts of Peru today.
The story might still be an urban legend, but it seems most any starch that can converted into sugar is a candidate for fermentation.
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:25:32 AM PDT
by
Betis70
To: RhoTheta
"There's a bear in my beer" ping.
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:28:48 AM PDT
by
Egon
(Kerry in 1970: Don't suppose he voted FOR assasinating our leaders, before voting against it...)
To: Xenalyte
"If this had been my family's campground, the bear wouldn't have been able to round up 36 undrunk beers." I'm assuming ya'll drink "lyte" beer?
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:29:55 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
("We deal in hard calibers and hot lead." - Roland Deschaines)
To: MeanWestTexan
"Mr. Bear, I love every hair on your 27-acre body."
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:38:47 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Swarm of cheerleaders attacks, Darksheare pronounced ecstatic at local hospital. Film at 11.)
To: Eaker
I would like to get that bear and humble all liquored up and then have them rassle!!
I would pay HUGE money to see that.
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:40:16 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(You don't eat crackers in the bed of your future, or you get all . . . scratchy.)
To: Egon
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:41:29 AM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(I love the 1st Amendment...I can call Clinton an idiot.)
To: Joe 6-pack
The men in my family, being REAL men, drink Shiner. I, being on a quest to regain my girlish physique, am drinking (ugh) Michelob Ultra.
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:41:52 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(You don't eat crackers in the bed of your future, or you get all . . . scratchy.)
To: humblegunner; Xenalyte; Eaker; Flyer; Bacon Man; Hap; pax_et_bonum; thackney
Upstart bears who steal my beers are likely to get shot between the ears. This may explain what happened to all that missing Moosehead...
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:51:33 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(Is what I'm living right now just going to be one big "mistaken recollection?")
To: rudypoot
They set a trap using as bait some doughnuts, honey and two cans of Rainier Beer. It worked, and the bear was captured for relocation.
Who were they trying to catch, Homer Simpson? Bob and Doug McKenzie?
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:58:14 AM PDT
by
Dr Snide
(vis pacem, para bellum - Prepare for war if you want peace)
To: Dr Snide
I recall that Bears dug Hamm's.
To: Egon
Obviously they need to revoke the bear's driving license.
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posted on
08/19/2004 10:03:23 AM PDT
by
doug9732
To: gathersnomoss
Hamm's beer is what a cheap beer should taste like. It's Budweiser without paying the extra cost of their advertising. The Hamms Beer Chest for $11 Bucks!! (30 pack)
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posted on
08/19/2004 10:17:26 AM PDT
by
rudypoot
To: Egon
To: Egon
That wasn't a bear. Big Fat Teddy Kennedy was just wearing a fur coat.
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posted on
08/19/2004 10:38:15 AM PDT
by
exile
(Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
To: Melas
Corn does ferment. Anything with a sugar in it will easily ferment.
Heck, hay and wood will ferment under the right conditions (wet and hot and mold).
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