PANGUITCH, Utah - One Utah community is cheering a special bear - but don't call him Smokey.

Investigators say a large black bear raided a clandestine marijuana growing operation so often that it chased the grower away.

"This bear is definitely law-enforcement minded," said Garfield County Sheriff Danny Perkins. "If I can find this bear I'm going to deputize him."

Deputies found food containers ripped apart and strewn everywhere, cans with bear teeth marks, claw marks and bear prints across the Garfield County camp on Tuesday.

Perkins said the operation on Boulder Mountain included 4,000 "starter" sacks of pot and 888 young plants.

"This particular bear apparently was not going to give up and basically chased these marijuana farmers away," Perkins said. "Our county is so tough on drugs that even the wildlife are getting in on the action."

Damned idiots should have got the bear stoned. Apparently they bogarted the joint. Which would have pissed me off as well.

But then that might explain the empty food packs strewn about. They got the animal high, which gave him a terrible case of the munchies, and when the food ran out, he got pissed and chased them off.

Wonder how Ursus would react to a moonshine still? Get him drunk and let him run the stuff.

No cop would be too anxious to pull him over.

LOL

I can't picture a couple of stoner's being chased by a hungry bear without LMAO. It must have seemed like an police SUV with hair was after them.

Moral of story is obvious:

Never stone an animal without feeding it afterwards.

I used to have a tom cat who liked to get high. He was like that when I got him. Or I should say when he got me. He just showed up at my door one day, and never left. The first time I fired a number up around him he was in my face trying to inhale the smoke. I didn't mind sharing the weed with him, but he always wanted about three cans of cat food afterwards, and would drive you up a wall with his incessant meowing until you fed him..

It was a lot cheaper and quieter to leave him straight

Yeah, but then he would have been peaceful and mellow. At least until the munchies ran out anyway.

He could have also thought the growers were narcs themselves, and decided to dispose of them.

Or he could have been a narc himself, which means that the cops will plant the confiscated stuff themselves in their own fields, after which they use some of it, and sell some to unsuspecting heads they'll bust for purchasing the stuff.

Ursus will be the watch bear, but April was right in that somebody will need to watch the watcher.

The fucker must be kin to Yogi. Everybody in that neck of the woods needs to watch out for their pic-i-nic baskets after he tokes up.

He is definitely an anal retentive asshole once the goodies run out.