Bear swings by child’s birthday party to eat cupcakes, terrify humans
A black bear stopped by a two-year-old's birthday party in Connecticut to help itself to dessert
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There is no better birthday party surprise than live entertainment. It’s always great when someone hires musicians for a get-together or arranges for Javier Bardem to pop out of a cake dressed like a Bond girl. And, for the kids, there’s really nothing quite as memorable as having a living teddy bear lumber into your backyard to share its best wishes on a special day and slobber all over the cupcakes.
A family in West Hartford, Connecticut received this special treatment on September 4th when a black bear cleared some space in its schedule to help celebrate a two-year-old’s birthday by coming by just in time for dessert.
CT Insider spoke to Laura Majidian, mother of the toddler who was honored by the ursine visitor. According to her, “the bear quietly approached” the party, likely not wanting to rudely interrupt any ongoing conversations, and “went behind a guest who was seated at the picnic table.”
Rather than greet the bear with the customary cookie kiss, partygoers ran into Majidian’s house and watched the animal dig into the birthday spread for “about 15 to 20 minutes” from inside. Despite everyone yelling and “making loud noises,” the bear stuck around. Footage of the special guest shows it licking at cupcakes and, perhaps feeling like it didn’t need to impress people who fled from its arrival, smearing frosting all over its face before swallowing one whole.
“We even had a friend honking their car horn,” Majidian said, “but it really only left once it ate its fair share of food.”
Unfortunately, because nobody was polite enough to head back out into the yard and make some small talk with the bear, we don’t know why it decided to venture into the middle of a birthday party being held during the day. Maybe, just maybe, the poor bear had also turned two that day and mistakenly thought the party was being held in celebration. Or maybe it was just trying to find a way to grab some extra calories before weighing in for a Connecticut spin-off of Alaska’s favorite annual event: Fat Bear Week.
[via Boing Boing]
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Once again, the Finns show how it is done.
This is exactly how they won the Winter War.
If a bear had crashed my birthday party when I was a kid, I’d remember that as the best birthday of my life, if not the best day of my life, period.
Hey, if they want wild bears eating their children and scaring away their salmon, that’s their business.
Silly old bear.
If you live in bear country, you should know never to leave food outside. As awesome as it is to see a bear in the wild, they’ll keep coming back to an area where they found food, and it will eventually lead to a confrontation that will likely result in the bear being culled. So, I can’t really view this video as cute, because it probably won’t end well for the poor bear, who is just doing what a bear does.Now that being said, I looked on a map, and West Hartford looks like one of the last places in the state where I would expect to see a bear. Much too suburban. I can’t really blame the family for leaving food unattended. But I think we all know the stupid ideas stupid people get when they see stuff like this online.
It sounds as though the food was not unattended. The bear walked up to the table while people were eating.
I’ve lived not terribly far from West Hartford, and yeah: it’s pretty densely-populated. It borders the state capital and several other dense suburbs, in the second-most populous county in the state.Unless these people lived way on the edge of town, there’s no way they’re anticipating a bear showing up in their backyard. It’s not rural Alaska.
Hey Boo Boo, let’s go get us a pic-a-nic basket
Oh, bother.
Seems like the bear was no less well-behaved than any other birthday guest.