Black bear chills out in beer cooler

It climbs up 12 feet onto a shelf, sits for an hour before being tranquilized

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Oct. 17: A black bear walks into a Wisconsin store and hangs out in the liquor department. MSNBC's Alex Witt has the story.

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updated 7:20 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2009

HAYWARD, Wis. - Shoppers in a Wisconsin grocery store got an unexpected surprise when a 125-pound black bear wandered inside and headed straight for the beer cooler.

The bear stopped Friday night at Marketplace Foods in Hayward, about 140 miles northeast of Minneapolis, sauntering through the automatic doors and heading straight for the liquor department, WEAU-TV reported.

It calmly climbed up 12 feet onto a shelf in the beer cooler where it sat for about an hour while employees helped evacuate customers and summoned wildlife officials.

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Officials from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources tranquilized the animal and took it out of the store. Store workers say the bear seemed content in the cooler and did not consume any alcohol.