A black bear entered a bakery in Connecticut and stole dozens of cupcakes, leaving the staff inside frightened.
The event took place at Taste by Spellbound in Avon, CT. A staff member was packing the last of the sweet goodies into a van for delivery and noticed the bear staring directly at her, according to a social media post by the store’s owner, Miriam Stephens.
Stephens described what happened. “All of the sudden we hear her screaming bloody murder and then yelling ‘there’s a bear in the garage!’” she said.
Worker Maureen Williams described the experience as “a little shocking,” saying that despite her screams, the bear returned three more times before she could shut the garage door.
“At that point, I knew I wasn’t going to shut the door. He was too close. So, I backed myself out and ran,” said Williams.
A video shows the bear slinking into the garage and then coming back out with a box of cupcakes
All in all, it’s estimated that he gorged himself on roughly 60 cupcakes.
According to Williams, the bakery eventually managed to convince the bear to leave when one of the bakers drove around the back in their car.
“[They] honked on the horn quite a bit to get him to go away, and finally he went away.”
“There have been many instances over the past three years being at this location that we’ve started to go outside and literally have to run back in because there’s a bear in the trash, and we always joked about one coming in,” Stephens said.
“But that was a joke. Until yesterday…it decided to.”
