Colorado Springs police say that the vandal who broke into a closed Circuit City wasn’t trying to steal electronics — it was a confused black bear.
Apparently, the bear panicked after setting off an alarm at a nearby restaurant. He smashed through the sliding glass doors of the Circuit City and hung around in the customer waiting area for awhile before exiting the same way he came in.
A surveillance camera captured the bear’s shopping trip, and we have to admit, aside from smashing the sliding glass door, it looks exactly like our last shopping trip to Circuit City. Hello? Does anyone work here?
Bear Breaks in to Colo. Springs Circuit City (With Video!) [MyFoxColorado]
I can has customerz service plz?
ROFLOL
Moral of this story: If you want to rob a Circuit City store, wear a bear costume…
Even bears can sniff out failure.
And the #1 threat in America….. BEARS!
Even if a CSR had been there, they would have refused to honor the bear’s coupons.
Bear sez, “Who do I have to maul to get service around here?”
Would they have had the balls to check his receipt at the door?
I used to work at Circuit city and i’m SO glad I’m not anymore. that said, the way the stores are set up, its difficult for customers to understand where to go to get help. Still, I hated dealing with stupid customers like that.
“If we don’t have your honey ready in 24 min….
Well, he waited for more than the 20 minutes, and the product wasn’t available. But the Mgr. refused to issue the gift card, so the bear went home to launch a EECB against Circuit City.
What is even stranger about all this is… I live in Colorado Springs and none of this even hit the news. Not even on the Fox station that ran this story in print.
Clearly, the customer is at fault here…
That’s it…. He’s sick of the shenanigans at Circuit City. He’s going to Best Buy.
The bear cavalry is on the loose!
@DrJimmy:
Nobody refuses to honor a Bear‘s coupons.
What is a bear doing shopping at Circuit City anyway?
(had to get that in there)
OMG, I dont have a snarky comment.
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I used to work at that Circuit City on North Academy Blvd. Right now there is another issue with an African Lion roaming around El Paso County, same county as this Circuit City.
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Bears need their video games too! The woods sure can get boring, you know.
If a bear can break into a circuit city, they could probably break into your home.
Now I won’t be able to sleep.
@renilyn: Yea I do to, its funny because we hear these stories all the time so we dont even care anymore.
@renilyn: I dunno about Colorado Springs, but while visiting Maine, I found out that this kind of thing (bear vandalism of windows and trash cans and such) happens quite often, so it isn’t really TV news-worthy, unless there is something more important to cover, like a turn for the worst in the war in Iraq. In that case, this story would have aired to occlude the real one.
Also, doesn’t everyone know that bears are the #1 threat to America?
I can’t wait for people to start blaming the bear for not knowing what the store hours were.
At least the bear didn’t have to show his receipt when exiting the Circuit City.
He must have heard about the sale on HDTVs and wanted one for his cave.
The bear does not want a $#@&ing Extended Warranty!
At least the bear wasn’t Cedric Benson.
Could have been worse – here in Colorado we believe in keeping and arming bears…
or is that keeping and bearing arms?
Odd as it may sound, my problem with Circuit City isn’t being able to find someone, it’s one of their employees asking me if I’m finding everything okay every 30 seconds.
Funny. I didn’t realize that Ted Haggard liked bears…
That bear bought as much at circuit city as everyone else.
I didn’t have any trouble finding an employee the last time I went to CC. But after I told him I could get the same item at buy.com for 60% less, he quickly abandoned me.
Bears are scavangers and often sniff out the dying..
So if a bear $&!%s in Circuit City, does the customer experience still smell the same?
@PhilVillarreal: Benson would never have made it in, he would have been tackled for a loss.
/off to deadspin
The bear needs to break into a furniture showroom store where all the sales staff is on commission. Those people are like ticks on a … bear.
You hear that, Ed? Bears! You’re putting the whole station in jeopardy!
Hello? Anyone there? Your intarweb site said you have my order ready in 24 mins or less. Hello?
Looks like bad news for the… “impson” family.
“Is it true?”
“Do bears crap in Circuit City?”
… so the bear says, “You didn’t really come here to hunt, did you?”
Freakin country bear jamberoo…
“THE SERVICE HERE IS UNBEARABLE!!!!”
Circuit City is so 1995.
@renilyn: Same here. I read it in a feed from a Denver paper. Typically the news stations are all over “bear invades a local neighborhood” for the cutsie story of the night.
@Trai_Dep: Someone mentioned a “bear from the back mountain” and Haggard mishear and came a’runnin.
“Look for the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
Old Mother Nature’s recipes
That brings the bare necessities of life”
Disney’s “The Jungle BooK” –The Bare Necessities
Does a bear sheit in a Circuit City?
One must know!
Yo, entry level employee, the manager has tasked you with cleaning up the bear sheit in aisle 4.
Midwestkel: remember, it could just be a very large dog.
Best. Headline. Ever.
BTW, referring to the bear as a “confused black bear” is very insensitive. It should be referred to as a “confused African-American bear.”