Bear on high:)
Drunken Bear....Hilarious.....:) FRom Star of Mysore news paper....
BEAR BEARS THE BRUNT OF HEADY STUFF
Ooty, Feb. 10 (DN)- Whoever said man can not befriend a beast of an animal. Here is the actual, at the same time, a funny incident where a grizzly bear came to one coolie's house, drinks his liquor and sleeps with him. Literally!
Raman, a 40-year old coolie in a village in the district here was all alone one day and to kill his loneliness, went out at 8.30 pm to have a drink as usual. After heaving one peg two many, Raman comes inebriated and sleeps on his cot forgetting to lock the front door.
His small adobe was close to a forest and a grizzly bear, which came out of the forest area for a change, looked things around in the village and found the door of a house ajar. Bear, usually a curious animal, sneaked into a house with barely a whimper to see what it is all about. That was the house, our poor Raman was snoring to his glory, drunk enough to miss the visit of this hairy bear.
The bear cooly ate some vegetables and fruits kept under the cot. As the bear was having its dinner in an unusual place, Raman got up at mid-night only to want to have another session of drinks. He gets down from the cot, locks the door from outside and heads to the liquor joint. All this while, the bear was watching Raman without blinking its eyes confused what to do next. The bear goes to the door, scratches with his claws and finding it not opening comes back to munch the tasty vegetables. After a little while, our Raman comes back home with a bottle of liquor in his hands. No, he did not fetch the bottle to treat his bear friend.
Once inside, he fails to notice the bear sitting quietly under the cot munching vegetable. So, he opens the bottle, takes a peg and finding it enough for the night, places the half-full bottle on the floor and hits the sack.
This was when the bear's curiosity got compounded as to what was happening. Seeing the man flat on his bed, the bear stops eating vegetables and comes out and while walking around the room, spills the bottle.
The bear must have seen a man, a house and everything about vegetables and fruits but not a bottle of liquor since they have no bar and restaurants opened for them in a forest. While wondering what the bottle contained, the bear decides to have a go and taste it and lo! Before it could realise the intoxication, it totteringly walks to the cot, climbs and sleeps next to our poor Raman.
The next morning Raman had the scare of his life. He opened his eyes and sees a lump of wool next to him. He could not make out what it was. He rubbed his eyes, which were still hazy after a night of heavy booze, and in no time jumped out of his bed and ran out for life screaming bear! bear!
The neighbours, who heard the screams, came to his help and shooed the bear away. The poor bear, which had the drinking session late in the night, was still feeling tipsy and walked out of its host's house, swaying with the nasha of liquor!
Raman might be an ordinary coolie but thanks to his friend from the forest, the grizzly bear, he is now the talk of the town who had a beast of an animal as a visitor!
Posted by Mahesh
at 10:48 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:51 PM EST
Posted by Mahesh
at 11:27 PM EST