Police chase scavenging black bear out of Bartlett High School (Anchorage)

[Blue_In_AK]

This is a funny story. Only in Alaska...

http://www.adn.com/2012/06/13/2503460/bear-cub-may-be-loose-in-high.html

Anchorage police officers say they scared a small black bear out of Bartlett High School after it wandered in an open door Wednesday afternoon.

Part of the East Anchorage school -- home of the Golden Bears -- is under construction, so some doors were left open, allowing the bear to get in, said Officer Chris Mueller. Staff inside the school evacuated the building while police went inside, Mueller said.

"She was shopping. Any trash can that had any food in it was knocked over," he said. "She peed in the hall at one point. Another teenage ne'er-do-well, just a different species."

Officers banged on doors, and the bear ran outside, Mueller said.

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Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/06/13/2503460/bear-cub-may-be-loose-in-high.html#storylink=cpy

[elleng]

1. Another teenage ne'er do well!!!

[MADem]

2. In MA we had a black bear swim the Cape Cod canal and go all the way to Provincetown looking for a

girlfriend!

Since there are no black bears on Cape Cod, he was rather lonely, but he was in the news every day, what with sightings of him and the odd home video/photos as he made his way across the Cape.

He was tranquilized the other day, and relocated to central Massachusetts!

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Well, I hope he has better luck there.

That's kind of sad. We've had quite a run of bear stories this year. The guy who had to call for help after he had been chased 30 feet up a tree by an attacking grizzly even made it onto the MSN home page!

[MADem]

4. Everyone in the state was rooting for the poor fart--I guess they get run off by their mothers after

they reach a certain age, and he was a young 'un who was at that certain age. He found plenty to eat in his travels, between the garbage cans and birdfeeders...!

Hopefully he'll find himself a fine romance in central Mass!