Black bear walks into a gas station bar, takes a pack of gummy bears and leaves (www.cbc.ca)
from RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 15:40
https://lemmy.ca/post/7071473

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

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/canada@lemmy.ca/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.

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Gingerlegs@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 15:51 next collapse

Amazing

rab@lemmy.ca on 12 Oct 2023 16:07 next collapse

Cute story until you realize the bear will be euthanized

jarfil@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 16:24 next collapse

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 on 12 Oct 2023 16:40 next collapse

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

jarfil@lemmy.world on 18 Oct 2023 02:58 collapse

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

OrteilGenou@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 16:45 next collapse

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 on 13 Oct 2023 04:03 collapse

No?

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

jarfil@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 2023 01:05 collapse

“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 on 14 Oct 2023 01:38 collapse

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

jarfil@lemmy.world on 18 Oct 2023 02:48 collapse

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.

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 19:08 collapse

Haribo has a posse

Fredselfish@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 16:28 next collapse

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

bloubz@lemmygrad.ml on 12 Oct 2023 16:32 next collapse

Same

constnt@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 16:35 next collapse

Who’s gonna stop it?

tdawg@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 19:21 collapse

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

RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 20:51 collapse

I thought this was c/dadjokes too

Fredselfish@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 22:59 collapse

Me too!

reverendsteveii@lemm.ee on 12 Oct 2023 16:54 next collapse

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 on 12 Oct 2023 20:23 next collapse

“world news”

Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 13 Oct 2023 04:05 collapse

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

Carighan@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 2023 06:07 collapse

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

PowerGloveSoBad@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 2023 20:25 next collapse

Cannibalism

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 2023 03:45 collapse

A gas station bar?

Free shooter with 10 gal fill up?