He loves cookies beary much.
A bear has been spotted going to multiple homes in Los Angeles and swiping packs of a popular brand of cookies.
As recently as Friday, May 24, the bear broke into a home in the Monrovia neighborhood and left with just one item: Oreos.
Now residents have given him the apt nickname Oreo.
Video obtained by ABC 7 shows the bear “calmly” breaking in through the window and leaving with the recognizable blue package dangling from its mouth.
“I was scared to death,” neighbor Vina Khoury told ABC. “He was so close. That never happened before.”
That same house on Canyon Crest Drive was also targeted a week earlier by a bear that broke into their car to get ahold of their groceries — including the beloved Oreos.
Khoury had an incident in her home as well when a bear went into her garage, opened the fridge and stole a chocolate cake last year.
The bear is not tagged, but the neighbors believe the heists were all pulled off by the same bear.
“That’s why we named him Oreo,” Khoury told KTLA 5. “He’s not just roaming around. He’s actually going into the houses. So now, it’s a very scary thing to leave a window open or your backyard door open or anything.
“We are OK with them around — it’s just this one that got too comfortable opening screens and getting inside the house and pushing windows,” she told NBC 4.
According to ABC7, some residents of the neighborhood are wondering whether the infamous bear can be trapped and relocated “since it now has a propensity for those Oreos and those break-ins in order to get its favorite snack.”
However, some aren’t too worried about the neighborhood bear, recognizing that all it wants is a little treat.
“The [bears] come by every Monday,” neighbor Richard Mosteller told KTLA 5. “They just walk by and beat up the trash cans, look for food, and they’re pretty harmless.”
Because the bear has not shown any signs of aggression, no one in the neighborhood has made an official report to wildlife officials so far.
