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“Outstanding service. They were extremely careful delivering the extra large container into our driveway.” -- A. L. GARNER
North Shore resort property.The three bears’ dumpster drama came to a happy ending Wednesday morning behind the Cascade Vacation Rentals office in Lutsen, when employees executed their strategy successfully and sent the cubs to their mother waiting within viewing distance, said property staff member Jaye White.No one was more surprised than Cascade employee Bara Raah Gregoire to see what was inside the bin, which had so-called “bear bars” in place to keep out the hungry critters.She said she was bringing trash to the bin about 7:30 a.m., removed the two metal bars and lifted the lid to find “the [mother] bear was sitting in the dumpster. … How is that even possible with it being barred shut?”Gregoire fled without putting the bars back in place and alerted property maintenance. That’s when the mother bear fled the trash in a flash and found a spot in a nearby tree.Owner Steve Surbaugh showed up about 9 a.m. and saw the two bear cubs still inside and unable to escape.Two resort employees jury-rigged a ladder from a broken futon, lowered it into the bin and banged on the metal receptacle until “one of the cubs slowly ascended the makeshift ladder and leapt... (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
