A woman wasn’t expecting this type of burglar to break into her daughter’s home — The North Carolina woman says she entered her daughter’s apartment and found a bear, who had entered by opening an unlocked door, roaming through the place.
Asheville Fire Department spokeswoman Kelley Klope told local news outlets the mother called emergency personnel Tuesday night after spotting the bear eating some pet food.
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission biologist Mike Carraway says the bear smelled dog food right inside the door and was able to get in through the door by pulling down on the unlocked handle.
Klope says crews arrived and hit on the ceiling to scare the bear, which then left unharmed.
Klope says all that was left in the wake of the bear’s visit was a broken flowerpot and blind.
Carraway says similar break-ins are rare, with this being the first one this year in the Asheville area.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
He’s smarter than the average bear!
That bear is smarter than the average democrat!
Please don’t insult the bears.
I hope they will lock the back door in the future as the bear will likely be back. Black bears are a lot smarter than most people, in terms of a native canniness. Bears, like most intelligent animals, operate out of what makes sense to them, rather than emotion, the way people often do. I expect that they often look at what people do and wonder about it. My dogs would often seem to laugh as they contemplated what must have seemed to be the nonsensical things that people do.