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Black bear steals pizza from B.C. restaurant
Conservation officers are on the hunt for a black bear that broke into a Whistler, B.C., pizza parlour Monday and polished off a pie.
The incident began shortly after 6 p.m. when the large black bear began pawing at a garbage can outside of Fat Tony’s, a popular destination for the ski village’s post-party crowd.
Two female employees were working at the time, said employee Colin Mont. As one went to close the door, the bear entered the establishment.
“The bear stood up over the counter and grabbed a pizza off the display and started eating it,” Mont said. “The girls stood back and let him do what he needed to do.”
Man thinks his friend is a bear, shoots him
A 22-year-old man is recovering in Victoria General Hospital after his friend shot him in the face, mistaking him for a bear.
The two were camping near Vancouver Island’s Nitinat River early Saturday when one of the men was woken up by what he thought was a black bear trying to get into their tent, Const. Grant Desmet of Lake Cowichan RCMP said.
The man grabbed a shotgun and fired several rounds in the direction of the “bear.”
Instead, the pellets of the gun hit his friend — sleeping head-to-toe at the opposite end of the tent — in the face and the arm, causing severe injuries. (Photo: Thinkstock/ Getty)
Gary Clement’s Summer Stories: Rhymes With Animals
This summer, National Post cartoonist Gary Clement will be taking his inspiration from your summer stories. We asked readers to submit their best summer tales. Here is the next instalment of this series.
Bear cub that gained web fame euthanized
A bear cub that gained fame when it had its photo snapped with a Newfoundland RCMP officer has been killed because it was feared to be too friendly. Fish and Wildlife enforcement officers with the Department of Justice euthanized the bear on the weekend after it was seen going up to customers at the Copper Kettle Restaurant inside Terra Nova National Park, near Gander. It had already proved to be a traffic hazard on the nearby Trans-Canada Highway. (Photo: Cst. Suzanne Bourque and the bear cub. Handout/RCMP)
Photos: Dog, bear hug
An orphaned bear cub wandered into a family’s back yard in Podvrh, Slovenia about a month ago. The family has not officially adopted the bear cub, named Medo, but they and their dog have bonded with him; the family plans to build a fenced-in area for the cub. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)
Photos of the Day, May 5, 2011
A three month old bear cub who was born at the zoo in Stavropol takes a walk on May 5, 2011.
