Photo: Waff.com
One teenager from Asheville, North Carolina learned a rather expensive lesson the other day, when she forgot to lock the doors to the Toyota Prius parked in her parents’ driveway: bears are suckers for chocolate.
Lilly Thurmond, 16, was selling chocolate bars for a school prom fundraiser. She’d only managed to sell about 10 from an entire box, which she left in her Toyota Prius when she arrived home. She then left the car unlocked, and the sweet smell of chocolate proved irresistible for a momma bear and her 3 cubs, Waff reports.
While Lilly was inside, the bears came strolling to the car, gracefully opened the doors, got inside and began the feast. The teen could do nothing but observe what was happening and call her mother, panicking.
“I just don’t even understand, I have bears in my car,” Thurmond tells the media outlet. “I hear something to my side and I turn my head and I see that my car door is open. I could hear them growling and stuff. I even saw one bear open my front door, get in the car, shut the door.”
Eventually, the bears left when they understood there was no more food to be found inside the vehicle. When they did leave, they left the interior stained and scratched, though the damage wasn’t worse than what we’ve seen in similar incidents.
Luckily for Lilly, her insurance covers this kind of damage, but her mother isn’t about to let her forget locking her doors ever again. “I think we all learned a lesson keep your doors locked because bears know how to open them up,” she says.
And they will definitely use that skill if there’s the faintest smell of food coming from your car, so if you’re ever in the woods, make sure you remember that.
While Lilly was inside, the bears came strolling to the car, gracefully opened the doors, got inside and began the feast. The teen could do nothing but observe what was happening and call her mother, panicking.
“I just don’t even understand, I have bears in my car,” Thurmond tells the media outlet. “I hear something to my side and I turn my head and I see that my car door is open. I could hear them growling and stuff. I even saw one bear open my front door, get in the car, shut the door.”
Eventually, the bears left when they understood there was no more food to be found inside the vehicle. When they did leave, they left the interior stained and scratched, though the damage wasn’t worse than what we’ve seen in similar incidents.
Luckily for Lilly, her insurance covers this kind of damage, but her mother isn’t about to let her forget locking her doors ever again. “I think we all learned a lesson keep your doors locked because bears know how to open them up,” she says.
And they will definitely use that skill if there’s the faintest smell of food coming from your car, so if you’re ever in the woods, make sure you remember that.
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