Wild Case Of Looting At A California Gas Station But It’s Not What You Think

Last month a gas station in Kings Beach, California, surveillance cameras recorded the strangest case of looting so far this year.

On August 12th the video shows a customer standing outside of the store as he slapped the rear end of a bear who then entered the store, the customer then quickly retreated.

A couple of days later the bear returned to the store. You can see the employee try to stop the animal from going any further but it snaps at the employee who decides to back off.

Paul Heigh, the employee in the video, said, “It was kind of scary, yeah, I’m not going to lie. It’s not in the job description, no, not at all. Fighting off bears was not in the job description.”

The bear returned the very next day and is seen on the store’s camera lying on the floor munching on candy bars and crackers.

This isn’t the only instance of a bear helping itself to some snacks. Shoppers at a Safeway grocery store in Kings Beach had a run-in with a bear on August 15th.

Cell phone footage shows that bear nosing around a little in the produce section then leaving the store with a bag of Tostitos chips. I have to admit, I’ve done the same thing.

Another shopper caught a video of the bear leaving the store after she almost walked right into it before another shopper stopped her.

You can hear Adina Baidoo, the woman behind the camera, saying, “This actual bear, right there, that I almost walked into has gone to Safeway and decided… that he is going to go shopping.”

Kings Beach, in Placer County, is located on the shore of Lake Tahoe. According to county officials, the community’s proximity to open land means that people can expect frequent encounters with wild animals such as bears and mountain lions.

The county strongly urges the public to take precautions like feeding their pets inside their homes and securing garbage cans with a snap-on lid or stored somewhere that animals can not get access to it. They also warn people against inadvertently feeding wild animals. Officials say bears are attracted to compost piles and fruit trees.