Black Bear Found Passed Out at Campground Apparently Consumed 36 Cans of His Favorite Beer

The Associated Press



BAKER LAKE, Wash. Aug. 17, 2004 — 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."



Next thing you know he will be hanging out in Canada with that bear on tv.

He must have been a Canadian bear that crossed the border, but in any case, it sounds like a few guys I know...

My grandpa had the same thing happen to him while hunting in southeastern BC (flathead river area, north of montana). They came back to camp and found that a bear (most likely grizzly) had got into their cooler and drank all their beer (a couple flats, I think). They were pretty mad, but decided against going after it because going after a drunk grizzly probably wouldn't end up too well, and then the next morning they decided a hung over grizzly would be no better.

That must have been pretty funny to see a bear passed out in a tree though.

I had a pet pig that drank beer.

He would bite open beer cans and slurp the beer out of the dirt.

He never even bit a pop can, even if the cans were side by side with beer cans.

”Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be
happy.”
-- Benjamin Franklin

That's awesome. My brindle pit drinks like a fish, but he only makes it through about three and then passes out and has nightmares.

that is incredible for a bear to drink beer i know i love it and i bet 36 cans woud do the trick

I wonder who that might be?????

Ha...I saw that on the news