So a bear walks into a bar.... wait, that's not how this story goes. A large black bear got himself drunk after snatching and consuming 36 beers and had himself a wee snooze in a campground in a Washington State Park. Of course if it had been Canadian beer, well, he'd have been down after 12.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/West/08/18/bear.beer.reut/index.html

Somehow I was reminded of that episode of the Simpsons where there was a bear "rampaging" down Evergreen Terrace, and Barney ended up getting shot with a tranquilizer dart. Probably because they used Donuts and Beer to try to lure the bear into a trap.

Makes me glad I wasn't the one who found him. Or had to try to get him to move... because that would have been one surly bear when the hangover set in. So they chase it away, and it just came back, probably looking to get its filthy claws on some more sweet beer... so they had to trap it and move it away from the area. What was the next step in this whole escapade if the trap didn't work... an intervention? Get some other bears from the forest to come and form a circle and tell the alkie one that they care about him and they just don't like seeing him in that condition.  And then its on to Animal Alcoholics Anonymous, where because of his fame he ends up in the tabloids after hitting a few bars in Seattle, and he never lives down the headlines. Black Bear imbibes boundless black bottles of brown-brewed beer...

Nature is just SO much fun. Unfortunately, I'm totally sober as I write this, so I have no excuse!