- Friday, April 26, 2024
Surveillance footage showed the bakery workers and the bear trying to scare each other and the bear eventually went away after a baker honked a car horn.
By: Shubham Ghosh
A black bear recently left employees of a bakery in Connecticut, US, scared but millions of netizens amused by barging into the outlet and eating as many as 60 cupcakes before retreating.
The bizarre incident happened at Taste by Spellbound in Avon, a town in Connecticut, where workers were loading the cakes into a van for delivery on Wednesday (24). The bear then showed up, leaving the workers scared.
Miriam Stephens, owner of the bakery, wrote in a post on Instagram that she heard an employee named Maureen Williams “screaming bloody murder” and yelling that a bear had arrived at the garage, Associated Press reported.
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Connecticut is home to some 1,000 to 1,200 black bears, according to the state’s environmental agency, and they have been spotted in 158 of the state’s 169 towns and cities last year.
Williams told local TV station WTNH that the bear retreated when she shouted but came back thrice. She added that she ran away from the garage when the animal charged at her.
Later, surveillance footage obtained by WTNH showed the bakery workers and the bear trying to scare each other. It also showed the intruder pulling a container of cupcakes from the garage into the parking lot with its mouth and according to Stephens, it ate 60 of them, the AP report added.
Finally, a baker honked a car horn to make the bear leave the spot.
Police and officials from the Connecticut energy and environmental protection department had arrived but the bear had left by then.
The latest meeting between the animal and humans did not lead to any untoward result, something that has been seen in the state of late.
In April, a woman in her 70s was bitten by a bear in her arms and legs when she went out to walk her dog in a Hartford suburb. Last year, too, two attacks took place and in one of them, a 10-year-old boy was mauled by a bear.
Statistics have shown that there were a record 67 instances of bears entering homes in Connecticut in 2022, compared to 45 in 2020.
