Bear Freed from Plastic Lid After Two Years

Imagine spending most of your life with a plastic lid stuck around your neck. A black bear in Michigan was spotted with the lid on a trail cam in 2023, when he was just a cub. A search at the time proved fruitless. Over the next two years, he surprisingly carried on normal life carrying the lid. In May, a local landowner spotted the bear and called the Department for Natural Resources, who responded quickly. According to Vice, the bear was lured into a humane cylindrical trap, then tranquilized while the lid was cut away. The bear weighed 110 pounds, which is normal for a two-year-old bear, but he had a bald spot around his neck. He wandered back into the woods, now marked with an ear tag that shouldn't interfere with his life the way a huge lid would. (via Damn Interesting)