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07-23-2010, 09:10 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
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Bear steals car, goes for a joyride
http://hosted2.ap.org/PAGRE/66bc2f9a...51d1b01a080b3f
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DENVER (AP) — A bear got into an empty car, honked the horn and then sent it rolling 125 feet into a thicket, with the bear still inside, a Colorado family said.
Seventeen-year-old Ben Story said he and his family were asleep in their Larkspur home, 30 miles south of Denver, when the bear managed to open the unlocked door of his 2008 Toyota Corolla early Friday and climbed inside.
A peanut butter sandwich left on the back seat is probably what attracted the bear, Story said.
It's not unusual for bears to open unlocked doors to cars and houses in search of food, said Tyler Baskfield, a spokesman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife.
"It happens all the time," he said. "They're very smart."
Once inside, the bear must have knocked the shifter on the automatic transmission into neutral, sending the car rolling backward down the inclined driveway and into the thicket, Story said.
The door probably slammed shut when the car jolted to a stop, he said, trapping the bear inside.
Neighbors had called 911, and deputies freed the bear by opening the door with a rope from a distance. It then ran into the woods.
Story said he'll need a new car because the bear trashed the interior while apparently trying to find a way out.
The bear also left what Story called "a present" on the driver's seat.
"A nice pile, actually," added his dad, Ralph. "Something to remember."
Baskfield said such incidents are worrisome because they endanger the bear as well as the public. Wildlife managers trap and kill problem bears that learn to scavenge for human food and garbage.
"Food was left in the car. It's troubling for us," he said.
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The part that amazes me is how the bear got the car into neutral. Either he pressed in the shifter lock button and applied the brake while shifting, or he applied such overwhelming force to the shifter that it simply broke all the safety lockouts.
Notice how the dash simply isn't there anymore. 
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07-23-2010, 09:15 PM
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What we all really want to know is which toilet paper did the bear use to wipe his ass afterward.
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07-24-2010, 12:33 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: the moon
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WHO IS DRIVING CAR?!
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07-24-2010, 06:00 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Sterling, Virginia
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I can see the call to the insurance company now...
It was a bear that wrecked my car! No, really! And then it ate it!
BB.
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07-24-2010, 11:03 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Central Pennsyltucky
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Originally Posted by BeerBurner
I can see the call to the insurance company now...
It was a bear that wrecked my car! No, really! And then it ate it!
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Sure he did sir, let me guess, he was after your Pick-a-nick basket? *hangs up*
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07-24-2010, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by General Geoff
Notice how the dash simply isn't there anymore. |
WTH!?! This ain't cream filling.
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07-24-2010, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Dresden, Germany
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I have always heard a car with its power off is a bear to drive.
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07-24-2010, 03:03 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Central Pennsyltucky
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Quote:
Originally Posted by General Geoff
The part that amazes me is how the bear got the car into neutral. Either he pressed in the shifter lock button and applied the brake while shifting, or he applied such overwhelming force to the shifter that it simply broke all the safety lockouts.
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BTW, it's not as hard to overcome the "safety lock" on a gearshift as you'd think, a healthly adult human has enough muscle power to pop it into gear with no keys. It's just a plastic or soft metal cam inside the assembly that prevents the shifter from moving, pull on it hard enough and it will either snap off, or pull around the cam lobe. It's more of a "woah hold on there partner!" kind of safety lock as opposed to an absolute safety lock.
Repo guys do it all the time to get a car into "N" when they don't have keys for it. So yeah, your average BEAR putting all their weight on the shifter is probably going to have a similar result.
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They say nothing good happens at 3am, they're right, I happen at 3am.
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07-24-2010, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Low-Tech Redneck
BTW, it's not as hard to overcome the "safety lock" on a gearshift as you'd think, a healthly adult human has enough muscle power to pop it into gear with no keys. It's just a plastic or soft metal cam inside the assembly that prevents the shifter from moving, pull on it hard enough and it will either snap off, or pull around the cam lobe. It's more of a "woah hold on there grandma!" kind of safety lock as opposed to an absolute safety lock.
Repo guys do it all the time to get a car into "N" when they don't have keys for it. So yeah, your average BEAR putting all their weight on the shifter is probably going to have a similar result.
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FTFY
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