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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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Apparently, the drinking age doesn't apply to bears...
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:45:39 AM PDT
by
Egon
To: Egon
Billy Carter is still around?
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:47:13 AM PDT
by
Dr Snide
(vis pacem, para bellum - Prepare for war if you want peace)
To: Egon
What this excerpt doesn't point out is the fact that the bear tried one other beer (Budweiser, I think), but preferred Rainier Beer. 36 cans of it.
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:47:43 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Egon
Why do I see a new RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANIEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER commercial being born?
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:47:51 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: Egon
Off the subject, but I just went into my kitchen pantry today and discovered that a mouse had been eating my protein powder.
I suspect he is the most muscular mouse in town by seeing how much he ate over the last couple of months.
To: Izzy Dunne
Bear tried 2 cans of BUsch, then RAN from the Mountains. LOL
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:48:53 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: harrycarey
IF he starts Benching the traps - RUN!
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:50:18 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: harrycarey
I suspect he is the most muscular mouse in town... There's going to be some pretty embarrassed local cats...
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:51:20 AM PDT
by
Egon
(Kerry in 1970: Don't suppose he voted FOR assasinating our leaders, before voting against it...)
To: Egon
Reminds me of a series of incidents in Iowa following a train derailment of cars carrying feed corn. A number of months following that accident, there was a rash of bears showing up drunk.
Turns out the conditions were just right for the corn (which was left in a pile at the accident site) to ferment into a quasi-whiskey. The bears were coming for miles around to lap up the hooch and were getting pounded out of their skulls.
Shortly after the forestry service figured out what was going on, a few bulldozers were brought in and covered the whole mess with limestone and plowed it under.
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:51:44 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(I remember when John Kerry last lied to us. It is seared into my mind.)
To: commish
To: Egon
To: Izzy Dunne
What this excerpt doesn't point out is the fact that the bear tried one other beer (Budweiser, I think), but preferred Rainier Beer. 36 cans of it. Short article, wasn't how much of the article I could get away with excerpting.
I, myself, prefer Leinenkugel's.
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:54:34 AM PDT
by
Egon
(Kerry in 1970: Don't suppose he voted FOR assasinating our leaders, before voting against it...)
To: Egon
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.Doughnuts and beer: Breakfast of Champions.
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:54:46 AM PDT
by
rudypoot
To: Dr Snide
Does a bear piss in the woods?
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:56:22 AM PDT
by
KevinB
To: Egon
I think Jimmy Buffet (God's own Drunk, and a fearless man)
knows about Mr. Bear.
To: Egon
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:58:10 AM PDT
by
inkling
To: Prime Choice
Sounds like an urban legend to me. Corn doesn't/won't ferment. Whiskey has to be distilled from corn.
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posted on
08/19/2004 8:59:51 AM PDT
by
Melas
To: Melas
Sounds like an urban legend to me. Corn doesn't/won't ferment. Whiskey has to be distilled from corn. You could be right. I heard that story back in the '70s. Never bothered to look up whether it was confirmed.
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:01:12 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(I remember when John Kerry last lied to us. It is seared into my mind.)
To: Eaker; Allegra; TheMom; humblegunner; Flyer; pax_et_bonum
If this had been my family's campground, the bear wouldn't have been able to round up 36 undrunk beers.
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posted on
08/19/2004 9:02:34 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Swarm of cheerleaders attacks, Darksheare pronounced ecstatic at local hospital. Film at 11.)
To: Xenalyte
If this had been my family's campground, the bear wouldn't have been able to round up 36 undrunk beers. Upstart bears who steal my beers are likely to get shot between the ears.
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