So a bear walks into a candy store …

And the store owner later says, “That little bugger ate a lot of candy!”

Jo Adams, owner of the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Estes Park, Colo., has the video to prove it. She tells the Estes Park News that four surveillance cameras she recently installed in her shop caught the baby black bear in action.

Adams came to work one day last week and found a candy tin and a cellophane wrapper on the floor and dirt on top of her checkout counter. She initially thought, “Oh darn, one of those pesky ground squirrels has gotten in the store and upset a few things,” she told the newspaper.

She and her son searched but couldn’t find the offender. That’s when they decided to check footage from the store cameras.

The video showed the bear wandering in the front door, which had a faulty lock, and helping himself to mouthfuls of candy from the display rack at the counter before sauntering back outside and chomping down the chocolate treats on the sidewalk.

The bear repeats the routine several times in a matter of 20 minutes, helping himself to an assortment of  chocolate-covered Rice Krispie Treats, peanut butter cups, a special Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory treat called Balls of Joy, English Toffee and -- no surprise here -- Cookie Bears, according to the Estes Park News.

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Adams told the newspaper she has since replaced the locks and the bear has not been able to break in again.

She said customers who’ve heard about the ursine bandit’s exploits want to order the same treats the bear enjoyed.

“At least five times a day people come in to order the exact same things the bear ate; I love it, we’ve been making extras of these particular treats just to keep up with the demand!” she told the newspaper. 

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A mall in the Pittsburgh area had an unexpected visitor Saturday night: A bear wandered into the Sears store.

The bear ran through a parking lot of the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazier, northeast of downtown Pittsburgh, about 9 p.m. and slipped into the Sears store using one of the automated doors, WTAE of Pittsburgh reported. (Here are photos from WTAE.)

The bear then became stuck in the lobby area of the store, WTAE said. A photo posted by NBC station WPXI showed the bear stuck between two sets of doors. 

Pennsylvania wildlife officials tranquilized the bear and carried it out.

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Wildlife officials said the bear, which had a tracking collar on it, appeared to be about 1 1/2 years old, WTAE reported. They said they couldn't immediately determine where it came from.

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A young bear scampered between two schools in Bakersfield, Calif., disrupting a graduation ceremony, before being cornered in an apartment building and tasered by an animal control officer, NBC station KGET reports.

"Some girls came in running, uh there's a bear in front of the school. It ran through the elementary school playground before heading to the apartments across the street," Teresa Arambula, principal of Garza Elementary, told KGET on Thursday. Her school is beside Sierra Middle School.

The animal, thought to be one to two years old, weighed about 125 pounds, authorities said. In the video above, officers struggle with the animal, which has a snare loop around its neck, before capturing it and returning it to the wild.

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A bear that wandered into the University of Colorado Boulder, Colo., dorm complex Williams Village falls from a tree after being tranquilized by Colorado wildlife officials, April 26.

Authorities say a bear made famous by a photo that captured the animal falling from a tree at the University of Colorado has been hit and killed by two cars.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say the black bear was struck on U.S. 36 around dawn Thursday by one car and then another.

Parks spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill told msnbc.com that officials identified the bear as the same one whose photograph went viral by checking an ear tag that was placed on him after last week's tree incident.

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Images of the 3-year old, 280-pound male bear, its arms and legs splayed as it fell April 26, were widely viewed in newspapers, on news websites, and passed around social networks.

The animal was later relocated to a wilderness area about 50 miles west of Boulder.

According to the Daily Camera, a 1992 Toyota Camry hit the bear first, followed by a 2002 Ford Focus. Police say one driver had minor injuries after hitting the bear.

Churchill said the bear will be buried or disposed of in the manner roadkill is usually handled.

"I'm not sure what condition the body was in," she added.

Churchill said relocating bears is a difficult proposition, as the animals often return to the areas they used to inhabit. "Animals have home ranges and if they find habitat and they're finding food, even in town, and they feel safe there, they'll stay there," she said.

"We need [citizens] to give these bears a chance by not attracting them to town with trash and bird feeders and other food sources."

Churchill said it's not uncommon for bears to be killed by cars in Colorado.

"It's very disheartening when we have to see animals die this way," she said. "I hope it's a teaching moment for people because we really owe it to wildlife to do the right thing if we're going to live near them."

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A black bear that was tranquilized Tuesday in the backyard of a home in the Los Angeles foothills is thought to be the same one that picked up a Twitter following after frequenting the area on trash days.

The large bear, believed to weigh several hundred pounds, was roaming some streets and yards in La Crescenta for several hours when a wildlife official happened to be in the area and sprang into action, the Los Angeles Times reported.

"The timing was real good," said California Fish and Game officer Martin Wall.

Transferring the tranquilized bear to a truck was another matter, with Wall comparing it to "moving a water bed without a frame."

Locals have seen a bear in their midst over recent weeks. One garage was raided last month, with frozen meatballs taken from a fridge.

A Twitter feed was soon set up in his honor.

Among the posts: "Why did the black bear cross the road? To get to the other trash can."

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Images from a KTLA-TV news broadcast show the bear and then Vaz Terdandenyan running away.

As the bear roamed early Tuesday, it was a near-death experience for resident Vaz Terdandenyan, who was texting on his cellphone when he looked up and spotted the animal in a passageway along his home, KTLA-TV reported.

"I got up this morning from helicopter noise and I was trying to see what was going on," Terdandenyan told KTLA, which captured the scare on video from a helicopter.

"I was texting my boss that I would be late for work because something is going on, and I'm coming down the stairs and I see the bear coming up the stairs toward me."

"I turned back and I ran for my life."

Plans are to return the bear into the nearby Angeles National Forest, KTLA reported.

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Ouch! A woman walking her dog near an apartment complex in Longwood, Fla., early Friday morning was bitten in the rear end by a bear.

A wildlife official told the Orlando Sentinel that the woman was taken to a nearby hospital after the incident, which took place northeast of Orlando, the home of Disney World.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Joy Hill said the attack happened at about 7 a.m. 

The woman was taken to Florida Hospital-Altamonte in Altamonte Springs with four puncture wounds, the paper reported.

According to the Sentinel, the woman was disposing of her dog's waste into the apartment complex's trash container when she turned around, saw the bear and stumbled to the ground. She was then attacked.

The bear may have been spooked by the woman's large dog, an Akita Shepherd mix, Hill said.

Traps set
Hill told the Sentinel that officers are setting traps for the bear, which will be euthanized if it is caught.

Florida black bears, which are a sub-species, are listed by the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as being a threatened animal. However, they have surged in numbers in recent decades, the paper reported, rebounding from about 300 to about 3,000, and the commission has proposed taking the species off the list.

Mike Orlando, who works for the wildlife agency, told the Sentinel that bear sightings are not uncommon in the area, which is near a state park, but that attacks are rare.

A resident of the complex, Arlene Friedlander, 79, told the paper that she often sees bears near the apartments. "I'm not afraid of them," she said.

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A large black bear entered a La Crescenta, Calif. garage early Wednesday morning and dined on Costco meatballs, then returned later that evening, television station KTLA reported.

Homeowner Joey Ball told the station that he heard noises around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning. When he opened his garage door, he found the bear sitting next to the refrigerator, eating the meatballs and tuna.

“He looked at me and I thought, ‘uh-oh!’ So I slammed the door and locked the dead bolt,” Ball told KTLA. “You could hear him eating, slapping his gums,” Ball added.

As a KTLA camera crew was at the home to report the story that night, the bear tried to get back into the garage. The station captured footage of the bear in Ball’s backyard. The station spotted the bear rummaging through trash cans in the same neighborhood a few hours later.

Neighbor Mark Edelstein told the station that his family doesn’t take their dog out for walks at night and for a while was not putting their trash cans out overnight.

City officials are warning residents against leaving food out in the open and urges anyone who spots the bear to contact the police, the Los Angeles Times reported.

La Crescenta is 15 miles north of Los Angeles.

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