DUNBAR, W.Va. (AP) — Larry Gaynor and his brother had to cut their latest fishing trip short after a black bear ate their food and guzzled their beer.

Gaynor, 67, and his brother, Billy Bob Gaynor, 53, were camping at Summit Lake (search) near Richwood on Friday when the bear wandered into their campsite at about 9 p.m.

Hearing a noise, they looked outside their tent and saw the bear with its mouth clamped on their cooler. Larry Gaynor said the bear dragged the cooler 30 yards into the woods and flung it against a tree, scattering a case of Coors Light.

"He only drank three cans," Larry he said. "He would've drank all of them if it would've been Budweiser."

Billy Bob Gaynor said the bear ate all of their food, so they returned to Dunbar the next day.

DOK,

If it had been my Grandpa's moonshine, that ol' bear might still be napping next to the cooler!

Lobo in West Virginia

Now seems to me them bear had a liken to the ole juice ansd like Lobo says,that shine don't take a liken to anything.
Those boys should have carried a hickory switch with em.That would have changed the story for that ole bear.Better yet that bear would have been tastin in one of them frying pans.sooner have bear meat that any dang chicken!
DOK,

If it had been my Grandpa's moonshine, that ol' bear might still be napping next to the cooler!

Lobo in West Virginia

Did he do a "turn a flip a fly a dip and a dunk and look like one of those #@$% bears in the circus, sippin' sasparilla in the moonlight."? Lord Byron

I take offense to that comment about 'shine...It does a fine job of cleanin' off metal before paintin'. Does a darn fine job on yer innards too!


Now seems to me them bear had a liken to the ole juice ansd like Lobo says,that shine don't take a liken to anything.
Those boys should have carried a hickory switch with em.That would have changed the story for that ole bear.Better yet that bear would have been tastin in one of them frying pans.sooner have bear meat that any dang chicken!