Bear steals iPad

A Southern California man says a bear stole his tablet computer. Jesse Dinkel was fishing at a lake in San Bernardino on Saturday when a courageous cub snuck up behind his group  and stole a fellow fisherman's backpack with an iPad inside.



"The backpack was by a picnic table, and somebody yelled, 'Hey, there's a bear!' And we turned and saw it running with the backpack in its mouth," Dinkel said. "The owner was pretty upset." He said a lone granola bar in the knapsack may have lured the shaggy suspect.

"People were giving (the iPad owner) a pretty hard time saying, 'Good luck explaining that to the insurance company,'" Dinkel recalled. "It was wild. I go into the wilderness all the time, but this is the first time I've ever seen a bear." He said even if the iPad had tracking, it probably wouldn't work up in the remote, mountainous location.


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He said the excitement didn't end with the first case of sticky paws. About 15 minutes after the first incident, a bear that might have been the same one ransacked another nearby picnic table, making off with a container of food. Dinkel, from Yucaipa, caught the second incident on video that shows picnic-goers watching from just yards away and some giving chase.