Bear breaks into Gatlinburg cabin, snags a Diet Coke and Reese's cups

Two friends on vacation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, had a close encounter with a black bear when it forced its way into their rental cabin. The women immediately went to a bedroom for safety. If one bear inside the cabin wasn’t scary enough, there were three more bears lingering around the porch. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says black bears are coming out of winter hibernation.

… Police were called, eventually getting the bear out of the cabin and the other three bears away from the porch, but the bears did not leave without taking a few souvenirs with them: they got 5 pounds of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, a pound of M&M’s, two pounds of Sour Patch Kids, two bags of potato chips, two beers, two Diet Cokes and about 20 Zyrtecs.

Here is what happened in the word of one of the witnesses.


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