Macedonian Court Convicts Bear Of Stealing Honey

A Macedonian court has convicted a bear of theft and damage for stealing honey from a beekeeper.

The beekeeper says he tried to fight off the attacks with thumping "turbo-folk" music.

"I tried to distract the bear with lights and music because I heard bears are afraid of that," Zoran Kiseloski told local paper 'Dnevnik' after the year-long case of the bear vs. the beekeeper ended in the beekeeper's favour.

"So I bought a generator, lit up the area and put on songs of (Serbian 'turbo-folk' star) Ceca."

The bear stayed away for a few weeks, but came back when the generator ran out of power and the music fell silent, and "attacked the beehives again."

The court found the bear guilty, and since it had no owner and belonged to a protected species, the state was ordered to pay for the $3500 damage it caused to the hives.

There bear was not present in court for his defense.

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