Watch bear walk right into 7-Eleven in California. ‘He just wanted a Slurpee’
A bear opened a door to a 7-Eleven and walked right in — until the hand sanitizer got him.
A TikTok posted by Rachelle Ducusin, an employee at the 7-Eleven store in Olympic Valley, California, about 7 miles from Lake Tahoe, shows the bear open the door.
The automatic hand sanitizer dispenser went off as the bear’s nose triggered it, the video posted Nov. 13 shows.
“He just wanted a Slurpee,” someone on TikTok said.
The 7-Eleven branded TikTok account also said the bear probably just wanted a special treat from inside the store.
“He wants a blue raspBEARy Slurpee,” the store said on TikTok.
Other people thought it was funny that the bear didn’t turn away after getting sprayed by the hand sanitizer. The bear didn’t seem fazed, video shows.
“At least he sanitized,” one person said. “Twice.”
Ducusin told Storyful the bear charged at her twice outside the store while she tried to keep it from going through the garbage cans. Video shows the bear digging through the dumpster outside.
Emergency officials arrived and shot the bear with rubber bullets to make it go away, Ducusin told Storyful.
It’s not the first time a bear has broken into a store in California.
A hungry bear repeatedly broke into a Safeway and Chevron near Lake Tahoe before it was killed by a family at a campsite in October, McClatchy News reported.
Another bear wandered through the aisles of a Ralph’s supermarket near Los Angeles, according to McClatchy News . The bear eventually ran out on its own and was relocated by wildlife officials.
“I thought the video was amazing,” David Balen of the Porter Ranch neighborhood council told KCBS at the time. “I’m glad that nobody came in contact with the bear. Anything can happen.”
Olympic Valley is near the Palisades Tahoe ski resort, formerly Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows.
This story was originally published November 15, 2021 at 12:46 PM with the headline "Watch bear walk right into 7-Eleven in California. ‘He just wanted a Slurpee’."