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Jul. 7th, 2006 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking"Bear cub can't resist pizza left in convertible"
A bear cub sniffed out a barbecue-chicken-and-jalapeño pizza in the back seat of a vintage red Buick convertible at an upper Kingsbury Grade parking lot on Sunday, jolting onlookers and leaving a cheesy mess behind.
About 30 people watched the cub lumber around the Tahoe Village parking lot before it homed in on the Buick and the pizza. Frightened swimmers stayed inside the nearby pool area as the bear - ignoring the car's horn which blew non-stop as the cub pressed the seat into the steering wheel - crawled inside to ferret out the pizza that was on the floor.
"The bear was loping along in the parking lot and then decides to get inside the car," said resident Jerry Patterson, who took photographs of the bear. "People were screaming at him, the horn was going off, but he was completely unaware. ... He did what he wanted to do and the people didn't matter."
The bear remained inside the 1964 Buick Skylark for a good 20 minutes and at times put his paws on the dash as if he were holding on for a ride, Patterson said. Motorists and onlookers outside the pool area snapped pictures and moved in for a better look.
The owner of the car, David Ziello of South Lake Tahoe, took the excitement in stride. Once the bear left for a nearby Dumpster, Ziello and his son, David Jr., inspected the car for damage. Fortunately there wasn't any - sans some cheese and jalapenos on the seats and floor.
But the bear wasn't through yet. He returned to the car from the Dumpster and tried to crawl back in as Ziello was inside.
Besides the pizza, the cub managed to finish a half cup of a Jack Daniels mixer and half of an Absolute vodka and tonic. There was also a beer missing.
"I swear he ran off with the can from the cooler," Ziello said. "The bear's an alcoholic."
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Date: 2006-07-07 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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