Bear Guilty Of Stealing Honey

In 2008, a Macedonian beekeeper named Zoran Kiseloski sued a bear after it repeatedly raided his hives and stole honey. Kiseloski tried frightening it away with bright lights and songs by Serbian turbo-folk star Ceca, but the bear returned when his generator ran out of power and the music stopped. After a year-long case, the Bitola court found the bear guilty of theft and criminal damage. Because the animal had no owner and belonged to a protected species, the court ordered the Macedonian state to pay Kiseloski 140,000 denars for the damage.

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