GENESSEE, Colo. — Deputies say a recent 911 call was a first for them: a woman told them that a bear cub had somehow gotten locked into her car.%
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“He’s tossing stuff in the back, basically, and then you can see the ceiling of my car just ripped and I was, like, 'I’m not going to work today,'”
[ car owner Annie Bruecker, 17, told KDVR-TV ]
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Deputy McLaughlin used his cellphone to record video of the trapped bear. The video shows the bear moving from the front to the back, breathing on the glass and pawing at a window.
“(It was) jumping from the back to the front, running around as much as he could, destroying about everything, trying to get out,” said Jefferson County Deputy James Tillman. “It was kind of a humorous situation, to be honest with you. He didn’t appear in danger. He didn’t appear harmed and he just looked like a dog in the car jumping back and forth.”
What has really stumped the deputies and Bruecker is how the bear got into the car in the first place.
“How did he get in? I don’t see a broken window,” McLaughlin can be heard saying on the video.
“They’re smart animals so I wouldn’t doubt if he just opened the door and then let himself in,” Bruecker said.
Tillman and Deputy McLaughlin were eventually able to safely open the back of Bruecker’s Subaru, and the bear ran off into the woods.
The inside of Bruecker’s car was destroyed.
“The whole ceiling was ripped. The plastic sunroof cover was ripped out. My steering wheel was chewed,” Bruecker said. “My neighbor actually described it as someone put a grenade in there and it just went off.”
Tillman said he has never had to deal with a bear up close before, and said the rescue couldn’t have ended any better.