Fine Dining In Canada
On real Canadians. We mentioned that Canadian bears had discovered a new favorite fast food: mountain bike riders. Well, sometimes they actually like a slower paced dining experience. Sleeping campers.
Allie Bourne, who was visiting from Toronto and celebrating her 14th birthday at the site in Chelsea, near Gatineau Park, was in one of the tents the bear visited.
Bourne was sharing the tent with her mother while attending a small weekend music festival.
"At eight o'clock, we wake up and see the tent falling on top of us, and then we hear something hit the side of our tent," she told CBC News Monday. "And then I'm like, 'What the heck is going on?'"
She and her mother scrambled to safety, and in the process, the bear bit her mother in the arm, but not deeply.
Serge De Jong, who owns the property and runs the festival at Ramsay Road, near the junction of Highways 105 and 5, said he thinks the bear was looking for food and never meant to hurt any of the tent occupants.
"It must have smelt fudge because there was some really good maple fudge in the tent," he added.
Now normally, we'd be the first to blame this all on the Animal Uprising™. In this case however, that last sentence makes us suspicious. How did De Jong know that there was "some really good maple fudge" in the tent? Authorities have also been unable to find and trap the bear to transport it to another location. Isn't that interesting? Inquiring minds want to know if De Jong and the bear have ever been seen in the same place at the same time. We'd also be curious as to whether De Jong owns a bear suit. (If not, we'd be happy to sell him one of our old ones.) We just like to cover all the angles.
By Anthony (Los Angeles), Tuesday, 24 July , 2007 @ 12:33 pm
DeJong is a traitor! A fifth-columnist working for the Animal Uprising!(tm)