Kicker: Cupcake bear

NICK EICHER, HOST: Here’s a story that reads a little too much like the setup to a joke.

A bear walks into a bakery.

NEWS 8: It was the most shocking little, you know, the adrenaline was pumping after that one for sure.

An employee of the bakery in Avon, Connecticut, was loading a delivery van when she heard the bear. Audio here from News 8 in New Haven.

MAUREEN WILLIAMS: The bear turned around and came towards me and did a bluff charge where he makes kind of a huffing noise and comes at you a little quicker so at that point I knew I couldn't shut the door because he was too close. So I backed myself out.

Thankfully, he just wanted the cupcakes she had, and he got them. More than 60 cupcakes to be somewhat precise. But they did have deliveries to make to paying customers, and so they managed to frighten him away by honking the horn.

And then later calling authorities who set up a bear trap baited with what else? Just the bear necessities.

REICHARD: So that bear can rest-at-ease.

EICHER: Sticky sugary treats. That sweet tooth is going to do him in.

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