Bear Burglar Shot By Neighbor's Grandson
Sow Suspected Of 11 Break-Ins
POSTED: 10:58 am MDT August 27, 2009
UPDATED: 11:12 am MDT August 27, 2009
MEEKER PARK, Colo. -- The female bear suspected in 10 cabin break-ins was shot and killed during an 11th break-in Saturday in Meeker Park, near Allenspark.The bear never injured anyone, but it had broken down doors and gone through screens in its hunt for food, according to the Longmont Times-Call.“We tried shooting her with buckshot,” Laura Dever, co-owner of the Meeker Park Lodge, told the newspaper. “People beat her with walking sticks. It didn’t help.”
The 120-pound female bear was killed by a neighbor’s grandson with a rifle.Jennifer Churchill of the Colorado Division of Wildlife said the division had been trying to trap the bear, estimated to be about 3 or 4 years old. Had they succeeded, she said, it probably would have been put down.
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