TORONTO — A hungry bear with a noted affection for German grub walked off with a Colorado Springs restaurant’s dumpster this week.
The bear has recently taken to looting the dumpster behind the Edelweiss Restaurant, where it feasts on “fresh, really good food” according to manager Dieter Schnakenberg who caught the garbage-poaching on security footage.
“She passes up the recycling bin and goes right for the good stuff,” Schnakenberg told the Denver Post.
Last night during a snack run, the bear with discerning taste tossed aside an unwanted garbage bag, stood up and backed up the rest of its take-out down the alley and out of view.
Restaurant employees have been told to be on the lookout for bears when taking out the trash.
Meanwhile, staff are considering ways to thwart the Edelweiss bear’s pilfering, such as chaining the dumpster to a nearby fence or getting a bear-proof bin.
If the bear keeps returning, wildlife officers will tag and relocate it.
Bears have been making themselves at home in Colorado taverns recently.
Last week a bear walked into an Irish pub, took a look around, and decided it wasn’t his bag.
In the unflappable crowd in Estes Park, only one patron noticed the 300lb. black bear poking around the tables.
‘I tried to holler, ‘Bear!’ so people could hear me,’ local man Daniel Lyell told CBS Denver after spotting the bear wander in. “They were oblivious.”
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