Bear Strolls Through Wisconsin Grocery Store

Sunday, October 18, 2009

October 18, 2009 11:18 a.m. EST Share This ArticleShare This Article

by Maya Iginla for the BBC's Biodun Iginla

(Disclosure: Maya Iginla is my daughter at Carleton College in the Class of 2010. She's majoring in journalism and literature and is also currently an editorial intern at alivemagazine.org .)

Hayward, WI - Shoppers and clerks of a grocery store in Wisconsin got a bit of a scare this week when a 125-pound bear casually strolled up and down the aisles.

The bear walked through the front door of the Marketplace Foods store on Thursday night in the town of Hayward.

Customers and staff were safely evacuated while the bear roamed the liquor store portion of the store for about an hour.

The animal eventually ended up in the beer cooler.

Authorities were able to tranquilize the bear. They monitored him overnight before releasing him back to the wild.

The store manager told WQOW, a local ABC News affiliate, that the bear caused no damage and the only sign he was there is a nose print on a glass door.

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