Hamms and Grain Belt and Schlitz.. ahh the memories
Minnesota was full of breweries not so many years ago. It's the water, yaknow. ;-)
Posted on 08/17/2004 9:43:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
BAKER LAKE, Wash. (AP) - Rain-eeeeer .... Bear? When state Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, there were some clues scattered nearby - dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer.
The bear apparently got into campers' coolers and used his claws and teeth to puncture the cans. And not just any cans.
"He drank the Rainier and wouldn't drink the Busch beer," said Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper at the campground and cabins resort east of Mount Baker.
Fish and Wildlife enforcement Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear did try one can of Busch, but ignored the rest.
"He didn't like that (Busch) and consumed, as near as we can tell, about 36 cans of Rainier."
A wildlife agent tried to chase the bear from the campground but the animal just climbed a tree to sleep it off for another four hours. Agents finally herded the bear away, but it returned the next morning.
Agents then used a large, humane trap to capture it for relocation, baiting the trap with the usual: doughnuts, honey and, in this case, two open cans of Rainier. That did the trick.
"This is a new one on me," Heinck said. "I've known them to get into cans, but nothing like this. And it definitely had a preference."
Nice shot. "The Mountain is out."
"Agents then used a large, humane trap to capture it for relocation, baiting the trap with the usual: doughnuts, honey and, in this case, two open cans of Rainier. That did the trick."
Just goes to show you how they treat Republicans in Washington state these days. I am going to have to start watching out for myself here in California when I go out.
Haha...yes. The ultimate in kiddie advertising. There's a bar that I go to in Madison that has one of the bears. It's a plastic bear, about 3 feet high, riding a bicycle. The bicycle is on an electric carousel, and the bear bikes around and around...
I ain't been up there in a coon's age, and I'm only thirty miles away...
Another Busch hater!
Pretty country , thanks for that pic earlier.
They were great commercials. I spent six years as public relations director for Rainier Brewery and you bet, we could have made hay with this story. I've also written two books about Mount Rainier, and have some classic (true) bear stories. At Mount Rainier they relocate troublesome bears about 25 miles away from tourist areas, and invariably the bears make it back to camp by the next morning.
The Hamms beer commercials from years ago were classics too.. I grew up watching the Twinkies and Vikings games and the Hamms bear in all kinds of garb and gimmicks.
I didn't know Buffet was a FReeper.
Yeh, I loved that Hamms bear too. Unfortunately we've lost both our classic Northwest beers, both Rainier and Olympia. Both breweries closed years ago. The best beer in the NW now is made by our own Billthedrill.
Hamms and Grain Belt and Schlitz.. ahh the memories
Minnesota was full of breweries not so many years ago. It's the water, yaknow. ;-)
I love this story soooooooo much!
(Okay, gonna go back and finish it now.)
I love this story soooooooo much!
(Okay, gonna go back and finish it now.)
Wow. Double post. Might be my first.
(Guess people will be thinking I hang out with bears or something...)
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"Does a bear wiz in the woods?"
was that a TV skit?
Your cub is on the loose!
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