A bear broke into Lyons, Colorado’s Colorado Cherry Company July 13. It ate 24 pies, carried two away for later, and generally trashed the bakery before leaving.
“He made his way right in, hopped on top of the oven, hopped down and had a little feast,” store owner Kristi Lehnert told Fox 31 in Denver, according to International Business Times. The shop’s security cameras were not pointed toward the window the bear broke and climbed through, but unmistakable paw prints proved the intruder’s identity.
That in itself is news, but this wasn’t the first time a bear has done this. Colorado Cherry Company has suffered from a similar theft before. A separate branch of the company in Loveland, Colorado, was broken into by a bear as well.
Lehnert worries that, even with a boarded window, the bear will return now that is has had a taste of human food.
The one pie the bear purposefully left behind was a rhubarb pie. Rhubarb is toxic to bears, and even after being mixed with strawberry, the bear sniffed out the potential problem.
Photo courtesy of International Business Times/Colorado Cherry Company
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