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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

They believed the mother bear managed to get the door of the minivan open. Then, the bear and cubs climbed inside and the door closed behind them. The windows were so fogged up, it was difficult ...

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.” ...

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 ...