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Does a bear shoot within the woods? One bear in British Columbia could possibly, after making off with a bag of golf golf equipment from the again of a cart.

The incident was caught on video on the Westwood Plateau Golf & Nation Membership in Coquitlam, B.C., and posted to Twitter. Because the video begins, a big black bear already has its enamel on a person’s brand-new golf bag, and is tugging it from the motorized cart.

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It loses a lot of the golf equipment because it drags the bag down a hill and into some bushes, the place it proceeds to chew it up. “She ripped my bag to shreds,” the person exclaims. “I can’t f—ing consider that!”

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The (former) proprietor of the bag, Jerome Gignac, informed World Information that he’s seen bears on the course earlier than, however by no means had a detailed encounter with one. He additionally admitted that chasing after the ursine thief and shouting “No!” won’t have been sensible, however within the second all he may take into consideration was saving his golf equipment.

The video has been seen tens of 1000’s of occasions, with some Twitter customers joking that the bag plunderer may need been a human in a fancy dress – a reference to a current picture from a Chinese language zoo that appeared to point out simply that – or that it was excessive on drug, as within the film Cocaine Bear.

Westwood Plateau first opened in 1995 and includes a 12-hole government course and an 18-hole, par-72 course with a size of 6,770 yards. The ability employs a grasp membership repairer, Terry Visosky, whose providers Gignac might quickly require.

In 2002 Westwood Plateau was named a “Wildlife Pleasant Golf Course” by the Institute of City Ecology at Douglas School. “Forested areas, undisturbed native vegetation, and small our bodies of water all through the course present plenty of pure habitat for wildlife,” the certifier mentioned on the time.