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Hungry bear steals cannabis shop’s entire wheelie bin


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A bear has been spotted walking off with an industrial rubbish bin from behind a cannabis shop in a search for food.

Last Wednesday, staff at The Bud Depot in Colorado discovered their dumpster had been moved from a storage area behind the store and into an alley several meters away.

Checking their CCTV from the back of the shop, the staff were stunned to discover the culprit was not a human would-be thief, but a large bear who had made off with the bin after being foiled by its metal locks.

The video shows the hungry black bear pulled apart a locked fence door at the back of the shop and began by sniffing small canisters and boxes.

The animal, confirmed to be a black bear by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife department, then targeted the large bin, pawing at it and trying to lift its lid.

The bear, nicknamed Cheeseburger by shop staff, sniffed around the bins (Picture: Colorado Parks and Wildlife)

However after it realised it couldn’t break into the dumpster, the bear decided to get the potential meal as takeaway.

The bear can be seen standing up on its hind legs and slowly dragging the bear-resistant bin out into the nearby alley before trying to open it again.

After wheeling it around in the space behind the shop for a while, the bear eventually abandoned its search for dinner.

The bear was foiled by the metal locks on the bin (Picture: Colorado Parks and Wildlife)

The CCTV showed the bear remained behind the shop for around an hour afterwards.

Bud Depot employee Nikko Garza said the bear had been spotted before and was affectionately nicknamed Cheeseburger by staff.

The bear is known to visit the Thai restaurant next to the cannabis shop, but this is the first time it has broken into the cannabis dispensary.

The bin ended up some distance away from the shop (Picture: Colorado Parks and Wildlife)

Despite Colorado’s relaxed laws around cannabis, shop staff are certain the bear wasn’t trying to get high.

Mr Garza said: ‘I imagine he could probably smell something from the shop, but as far as the dumpster goes, we don’t have any cannabis products in there.’

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife department shared the footage on Twitter, captioning the remarkable video ‘no reward for this bear’.

Department spokesman Bill Vogrin said: ‘For us, this is a learning opportunity. These bears will do whatever they can to get food.’





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