Lemmy.ca
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
RandAlThor to World News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Black bear walks into a gas station bar, takes a pack of gummy bears and leaves

www.cbc.ca

external-link
message-square
24
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • offbeat
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • canada
123
external-link

Black bear walks into a gas station bar, takes a pack of gummy bears and leaves

www.cbc.ca

RandAlThor to World News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
message-square
24
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • offbeat
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • canada

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7071122

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/533670

The owners of the store at Tipton Gas Bar in Lake Cowichan, B.C., were baffled when a black bear walked in and stole a bag of gummy bears.

alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    51
    ·
    2 years ago

    Thought title was a setup to joke. Man crazy. Can it eat gummy bears?

    • constnt@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Who’s gonna stop it?

      • DreamButt@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        16
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        The bears digestive track. I went to Alaska for a week a while back and we actually learned about how the local bears eat. Eventually a bear’s canines (or whatever teeth they use for meat tearing) will wear down to stubs making it impossible for them to eat meat. When this happens they will start to exclusively eat plant matter. Unfortunately this is also what ends up killing them. A young bear typically eats plant matter to slow down their digestive track for the winter. But in the case of an older bear they eat so much that their digestion literally backs up until it kills them

    • RedEye FlightControl@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      2 years ago

      I thought this was c/dadjokes too

      • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 years ago

        Me too!

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    2 years ago

    This is world news but when I steal a bag of sour patch kids it’s just a violation of my parole or w/e

  • CyanFen@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    2 years ago

    “world news”

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Nothing but this bear theft happened today. It was the only thing of note in the entire world.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 years ago

        Didn’t some TV station one broadcast that fuck all happened that day, anywhere?

  • PowerGloveSoBad@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    2 years ago

    Cannibalism

  • rab
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 years ago

    Cute story until you realize the bear will be euthanized

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 years ago

      Haribo has a posse

    • jarfil@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Didn’t “euthanasia” apply to “individuals getting help to fulfill their death wish”? I don’t think the bear wants to die, if anything it will get murdered, as in “premeditated taking of a life, against the target’s wishes”.

      • thorbot@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        2 years ago

        How do you know the bear’s wishes? Did you ask him?

        • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          Bear wished for some gummy its.

        • jarfil@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          Suicide by cop vet, you say? That bear needs counseling!

      • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        You don’t take on a pack of wild gummy bears and come out alive. That bear had a death wish, sure as shootin.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 years ago

        No?

        put (a living being, especially a dog or cat) to death humanely.

        • jarfil@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          “Humanely” implies a reason that isn’t just because it behaved not how you wanted it. That’s called “sacrificing” or at best “killing”, like when you want to eat steak but the cow insists on breathing.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            2 years ago

            I don’t want the bear to die. But that doesn’t change that the word doesn’t imply consent.

            • jarfil@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              2 years ago

              The word literally means “good death”, meaning for a good reason. Consent is one such reason, terminal illness is another, stealing gummy bears… is not.

  • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Amazing

  • agentshags@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Bear probably had mad munchies. Don’t judge lol

  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    A gas station bar?

    Free shooter with 10 gal fill up?

World News@lemmy.world

world@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

  • Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:

    • Post news articles only
    • Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
    • Title must match the article headline
    • Not United States Internal News
    • Recent (Past 30 Days)
    • Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
  • Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think “Is this fair use?”, it probably isn’t. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.

  • Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.

  • Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.

  • Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19

  • Rule 5: Keep it civil. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to “Mom! He’s bugging me!” and “I’m not touching you!” Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

  • Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.

  • Rule 7: We didn’t USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you’re posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

  • How to spot Misinformation and Propaganda

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

  • Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 3.03K users / day
  • 8.21K users / week
  • 14.8K users / month
  • 30K users / 6 months
  • 1.12K local subscribers
  • 46.4K subscribers
  • 21.3K Posts
  • 365K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • NewsAutoMod@lemmy.world
  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
  • Tenthrow@lemmy.world
  • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.world
  • Calvinball Champ@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org