Remember, Hank the Tank, the giant 500-pound black bear that has been terrorizing the Lake Tahoe, California, area?
Last year, officials reported that Hank had broken into at least 28 homes and was responsible for 152 reports of conflict behavior.
Hank is a "severely food-habituated bear," the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said, adding that the term "means that the animal has lost its fear of people and is associating people with access to food."
These sorts of bears often have to be euthanized before they start seeing humans as food.
However, the raging compassion of the lefties reared its blue-haired head in Hank's defense.
Soon, puff pieces for Hank the Tank started springing up everywhere - like this doozy from Vice that blamed humans for Hank's crimes.
Then people started speculating that Hank the Tank wasn't even just one bear. He was an amalgamation of three different giant black bears that were breaking into homes: "Hank the Gang."
Well news broke that Hank the Tank has officially been captured. And it turns out that Hank isn't three bears. He isn't even a boy bear. She's a mommy bear with three cubs: "Henrietta the Tank."
DNA evidence places her at 21 different homes this year, so it's pretty clear she's the bearish burglar who's been breaking in.
So, what's to be done with Henrietta the Tank?
Fearful of public outcry, Californian wildlife officials decided not to put Henrietta the Tank down.
Both Henrietta and her cubs have been chemically immobilized and will be exported to a bear sanctuary in Colorado.
Just another drugged-up Californian citizen, leaving the state to make life difficult for the rest of us!
