A North Carolina woman was shocked Sunday to find a large black bear trapped ... in Asheville when her minivan door seemingly cracked open on its own, as a stream of trash spilled out.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Winnie the Pooh has honey, Goldilocks' three ursine victims had porridge and a casually destructive North Carolina black bear ... a minivan door had come ajar with trash ...

Winnie the Pooh has honey, Goldilocks' three ursine victims had porridge and a casually destructive North Carolina black bear has ... to see a minivan door had come ajar with trash spilling ...

Oct. 30 (UPI) --Sheriff's deputies in North Carolina used a length of rope to free a trio of bears that became locked inside a minivan. Avery County Deputies Thomas Guinn and Scott Bray responded ...

"I certainly didn’t think it was in the car, so I closed the door at that point and went back inside," Lissenden ... careful to not leave trash out or otherwise entice bears, as they spot ...

The bear was inside Fairchild’s car and was honking ... “It opened the door to my daughter’s minivan,” Fairchild told the Empire. “It opened the door, but it did no damage.” ...

When the Edens family left their minivan at a campsite ... and somehow managed to lock itself inside the vehicle. So what’s a bear to do, other than trash the place, and do a poo and a wee ...

“Once they find garbage, the next place they may look to for more food is inside your ... dent in that family minivan: Communities or HOAs should institute bear-focused trash ordinances.

That’s what one woman learned recently in Lake Tahoe, after a bear accidentally shut itself inside her Toyota Corolla. What looks at first like an amusing shot of the animal behind the steering ...