When you go camping in areas where there are bears, you need to take precautions to protect your food. Like hanging it in a tree, for instance.
Apparently, you also need to protect your beer as well.
At a campground about 80 miles northeast of Seattle, a black bear got into someone’s beer and downed three dozen cans.
BBC News: Boozy bear plunders campers’ beer
The bear also apparently is a bit of an enthusiast.
Fish and wildlife enforcement Sgt Bill Heinck said the bear tried one can of Busch and ignored the rest – then got stuck into three dozen cans of Rainier.
To capture the bear, the rangers used a trap of doughnuts, honey, and, of course, some more Rainier beer.
This seems an appropriate time to tell you my favorite bear joke:
How do you tell the difference between a black bear and a grizzly bear?
If you climb a tree to escape the bear, and the bear climbs the tree and eats you, it’s a black bear. If it knocks the tree down and eats you, it’s a grizzly bear.
Ah Ranier Beer. Who can resist it.
When I first moved out to Portland Oregon, My new bride and I drove a 24 foot truck with all our stuff 3000 miles across the country. On the last night, we stopped in The Dalles way out in the Columbia River Gorge. We simply couldn’t drive the last few hours so we stopped at this run down hotel that happened to have a bar. We needed a beer because we had been on the road for some 14 hours. We stopped in and ordered something “local”. The woman told us it was happy hour, gave us two glasses of Ranier beer, and told us it would be $1. “A dollar each for a beer”, I said, “That’s a great happy hour.” No she said, “It’s a dollar all together.” We realized that a couple hours from Portland wasn’t close enough, but we drank the beer anyway, because there wasn’t really any other choice. So we finished the round and ordered another because there wasn’t anything else to do. This time she apologized, and told us that Happy Hour was over, now the beers would be 75 cents each. And that is my whole experience with Ranier beer.
Here’s my favorite bear joke:
Posted: Bear Warning
In light of the rising frequency of human-grizzly bear conflicts, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is advising hikers, hunters, and fishermen to take extra precautions to be alert for bears while in the field: “We advise that outdoorsmen wear noisy little bells on their clothing so as not to startle bears that aren’t expecting them. We also advise outdoorsmen to carry pepper spray with them in case of an encounter with a bear. It is also a good idea to watch out for fresh signs of bear activity. Outdoorsmen should recognize the difference between black bear droppings and grizzly droppings. Black bear droppings are smaller and contain lots of berries and squirrel fur. Grizzly bear droppings are larger, have little bells in them, and smell like pepper.”
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