Court Finds Bear Guilty Of Stealing Honey


	Court Finds Bear Guilty Of Stealing Honey

Homonculus

5-11-2008 7:46 PM

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Homonculus says:

Don't you just love a true news story that seems so bizarre that it couldn't possibly be true, well this is just one of those stories.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/35f28eda-ae38-4df2-b3ff-12af63dbf0dc/DDA41ECE-F9E9-4ACB-A689-276E411B0936/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://notelay.com/articles/fun/court_finds_bear_guilty_of_stealing/" href="http://notelay.com/articles/fun/court_finds_bear_guilty_of_stealing/" style="font-size: 11px;">notelay.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notelay.com/articles/fun/court_finds_bear_guilty_of_stealing/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/notelay.com/img/FBBA6327-49C5-45DD-B8DA-E158710C2590" alt="Bear stealing honey" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notelay.com/articles/fun/court_finds_bear_guilty_of_stealing/"><P>Now don't laugh, this is a serious story.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notelay.com/articles/fun/court_finds_bear_guilty_of_stealing/"><P>A court in Macedonia has ordered the government to pay a $3,500 fine to a local bee-keeper over a <A href="http://www.notelay.com/articles/psychology/polar_bear/">bear</A> that had been stealing his honey.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notelay.com/articles/fun/court_finds_bear_guilty_of_stealing/"><P>The beekeeper took the bear to court in Macedonia after spending a year trying to protect his bees and their honey from the hungry beast. The sweet-toothed bear didn't show up at court, but he was still found guilty of theft and criminal damage.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notelay.com/articles/fun/court_finds_bear_guilty_of_stealing/"><P>Since the bear was obviously unable to pay damages, is a protected species and has no owner, the state has to pay $3,500 for the damage to the owner <STRONG>Zoran Kiseloski</STRONG>. So, after the year-long case of the bear vs the beekeeper ended in the beekeeper's favour.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notelay.com/articles/fun/court_finds_bear_guilty_of_stealing/"><P>Kiseloski explained to the media:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DDA41ECE-F9E9-4ACB-A689-276E411B0936/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>