A sweet-toothed bear raided a Campbell River familysa国际传媒檚 freezer Thursday night, virtually ignoring the meat and fish, gorging itself, instead, on the Christmas baking.
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Like many people in town, the Marrssa国际传媒� stand-up freezer was in the carport. After opening it up, the bear broke into the containers and virtually licked the pans clean. Marr said she had to take some time to recall what all she had in there based on what was remaining because there was no trace left in some containers.
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The bear took a bite out of some bread and sampled some fish and meat but just pulled them out and left them to thaw.
Marr estimates the raid took place between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. She lives on a road in the south end of the city that is near a greenbelt and knew there are bears in the neighbourhood. Plus she has a newborn baby and shesa国际传媒檚 up a lot in the night and has heard bears around. She usually checks out noises in the night but has never caught sight of a bear.
But Thursday night she and her husband heard noises again but they decided to just ignore it this time.
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Because this time, there was a bear out there helping himself.
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Now Marr has to replace the lost baking. She does baking on the side from home and had some people expecting delivery of baking orders, plus she had her family baking out there too.
It could have been worse, there could have been more baking in the freezer but Marr hadnsa国际传媒檛 produced as much as she normally would have because shesa国际传媒檚 dealing with a newborn in the house.
The freezer sustained some damage but mostly itsa国际传媒檚 dirty from the big furry messy eater. Shesa国际传媒檚 had to bleach the freezer after transferring what was left to the in-lawssa国际传媒� freezer.
The raid comes as a surprise because Marr thought bears would be hibernating at this time of the year.
Unfortunately, the bear raid went full circle because he left an unpleasant calling card before he left.
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