Moment three-legged bear breaks into home and takes three White Claw drinks
The three-legged bear known as Tripod guzzled three White Claw hard seltzers.
A three-legged bear hobbled into the patio of a home and helped itself to three White Claw hard seltzers.
Tripod, as the bear was affectionately known in the neighborhood, made its way around the lanai as a boy watched in fear from inside the home.
‘Bear in my patio guys, what the f***,’ says the boy, Joseph Diglio, who recorded through a window. ‘This is Tripod guys.’
Surveillance footage inside the home obtained by WESH showed the boy leading his barking dog to an area of the home away from the bear.
‘Oh my god, look at it, he’s coming. This guy’s trying to eat the food here,’ Joseph is heard saying.
‘Oh my god, this is like once in a lifetime.’
Joseph’s video from Saturday shows the bear opening a refrigerator in the patio and going through the items.
‘He just opened the door,’ Joseph says. ‘He’s about to take the beer.’
Joseph’s mother, Josaury Faneite-Diglio, said the extent of the damage to their home in Lake Mary, Florida, was some lost refreshments and a hole in a screen.
‘He ate the fish food we had outside next to our fish tank and then proceeded to the bar,’ Faneite-Diglio told the TV station.
‘He took three White Claws, drank and left very happy. His favorite flavor is mango and strawberry.’
Joseph admitted that he grew afraid when he saw the bear open the fridge door and assumed it was capable of opening doors into the house.
But his mother did not sweat the incident.
‘I was not scared because we know the bear really well. He lives here; we respect their habitat as much as we can,’ she said.
‘Just part of living where we live, honestly.’
It happened just a few months after a bear made its way into the living room of a home in upstate New York and snooped through the kitchen. The family dog bravely scared the bear off.
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