Colorado bear takes a wild ride

A Colorado bear entered an empty car, honked the horn and drove for about 125 feet until it  stopped in a bush with the bear still inside.

The Colorado Story family was asleep in their Larkspur home, 30 miles away from Denver, when the bear opened the Toyota door, which was left unlocked, and entered the car. Seventeen years old Ben Story says that he had forgotten a peanut butter sandwich on the back seat and this is probably the thing that drove the bear into the car. Tyler Baskfield, a spokesman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife, says that bears are very smart and that it is not an unusual thing for bears to open cars or enter houses in their search for food.

After he got inside, the bear must have knocked the shifter on the automatic transmission into neutral, so the car started moving backwards on the driveway until it reached the bushes and stopped. The bear could not get out of the moving car because the door probably slammed shut while rolling, so it trapped the animal inside of it. The Storys called 911, and the officers freed the frightened bear from the distance by tying a rope to the front door handle. He immediately ran into the forest. The teenager says that he will have to get another car because the bear destroyed the interior of the Toyota while he was trying to get out of there. Tyler Baskfield says that these incidents are dangerous for the human and the animals too, and that usually bears that are caught entering houses to get food are killed by the Wildlife managers