Kicker - Grizzly burglar

NICK EICHER, HOST: You know the old joke: where does a great big bear sit? Answer, of course, anywhere he wants to.

Well, it’s no joke for a particular 500-pound bear known as “Hank the Tank.”

He’s terrorizing the locals now in Lake Tahoe, California, because he wants to sit where he wants to sit and that place may just be your kitchen.

Hank the Tank has allegedly broken into at least 30 properties around Lake Tahoe. He hasn’t harmed anyone.

He’s just after their food. A couple of young locals told CBS Sacramento they can’t be too careful

AUDIO: It’s really scary because we used to be able to go on walks or bike rides by ourselves, but it’s become a bigger problem. So now we bring a bear horn whenever we go on walks or bike rides.

Hank the Tank is getting brazen. He smashed a window and squeezed into one house while the homeowners were still there.

Police responded and banged on the outside of the house until Hank went out the back and disappeared into the woods.

Officials aren’t going to quit the bear-hunt. Hank has no fear of people and he needs to be relocated to a zoo or wildlife sanctuary—just somewhere away from your pantry.

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