Escaped bear 'made for the playground, took a ride on a roundabout slid down a slide'

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In today's Bizarre News Cut and Paste thread, I present;

Edited;

Bear escapes zoo to frolic in children's playground

...Juan, the Andean spectacled bear, astounded visitors at Berlin Zoo on Sunday when he manoeuvred a tree trunk to the edge of his fenced bear-pit and clambered up it and over a wall into a hastily withdrawing crowd of adults and children.

Juan made straight for the playground, took a ride on a roundabout, slid down a slide and lounged for 10 minutes on a climbing frame.

Zookeepers attracted his interest by placing a bicycle in his path. As he was puzzling over it, the keepers put a spoke in his wheel with the tranquillising dart.

Well, I'm glad he got to play on the slide & roundabout while he was out & about. It was pretty risky giving him a bike though, given his skillful use of other children's play equipment he very well could have jumped on it and pedalled off into the streets of Berlin.

[MrHoatzin]

That's just beautiful.