[Vision2020] FW: seattletimes.com: Rainier beer wins black bear's taste test

[Carl Westberg]

I would have thought a bear would have better taste than this.               
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                     Carl Westberg Jr.







>Rainier beer wins black bear's taste test
>Full story: 
>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002008625_webbeerbear18.html
>
>
>The Associated Press
>
>BAKER LAKE, Wash. — 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."
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