A family was shocked after reviewing a CCTV footage only to discover that a bear had sneaked in their home and emptied their fridge while they were sleeping.
32-year-old Amanda Habrun was spending time with her family at her aunt’s retreat house in Lake Tahoe, California, when an unsuspected midnight visitor walked into their home.
While the culprit made sure it was silent enough not to wake up the sleeping family, it left plenty of evidence behind after raiding their fridge.
As the family woke up, they found the fridge’s door open and food scattered all around the kitchen floor. Shocked by the scene, they immediately reviewed CCTV footage and discovered they were robbed by a smart bear.
“The bears in Tahoe are apparently able to open doors, and we accidentally left them unlocked for the night,” Amanda said in an interview with LADbible.
“We realized he was in there when my aunt got up in the morning – the doors were open and there was food everywhere. Then we checked the camera.”
As the mother-of-two added, no one heard the bear despite the animal raiding their fridge for over an hour.
“We have no idea how it opened the fridge, but it opened the big fridge, freezer, and the drinks fridge. It came in and sat on the counter and peeled and ate avocado, left the pit and the peels. Tried some bites of peach – he didn’t like those – then went over to the fridge and ate all the cherries,” Amanda explained.
“It opened the freezer drawer and took out gallons of ice cream with his teeth. Ate all of the ice cream. All the neighbors say that bears love ice cream.
“He tried some healthy organic meals from the freezer and hated those – apparently bears do not care about their waistline.
“Then he got a little thirsty and decided to head over to the drinks fridge and rooted through that to find the margarita mix. He could not open that, so he punched his nails through it and shotgunned the whole thing.”
Despite being left with barely any food to go on with, the family is happy that their bear visitor was ‘polite’ enough not to destroy anything.
“We have heard horror stories from the neighbors that the bears come in destroy the house and poop everywhere,” the 32-year-old added.
“We had a super nice bear who was quiet, clean, gentle – and apparently Mexican since he liked avocado and margaritas!”
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