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Sweet Story: Bear Breaks Into Candy Shop, Feasts; Camera Captures It All

So, a bear walks into a candy shop.

No, we're not starting a bad joke.

Last week in Estes Park, Colo., a black bear with a sweet tooth took advantage of a candy shop's defective front door to walk in and out seven times over 20 minutes — each time taking some of the treats outside and then coming back in to enjoy more.

Yogi (or maybe Boo-Boo?) was so neat about it all — he only left some wrappers and a smudge or two behind — that shop owner Jo Adams at first thought that the intruder had been a squirrel. She got quite a surprise when she checked the shop's surveillance video.

The Associated Press has . But to get the full story, check out by Special Edition Weekend from the Estes Park °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ. Correspondent Kris Hazelton really gets into the story. And she has much more of the surveillance video.

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Other bears with criminal pasts (involving pick-a-nick baskets): Boo Boo, left, and Yogi.
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Other bears with criminal pasts (involving pick-a-nick baskets): Boo Boo, left, and Yogi.

Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.
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