While police say the number of bears coming into town so far this year is average, the animals have broken in to three cars in Aspen’s East End in the past week and trashed two of them.
The latest incident occurred Sunday night, when a bear was able to get inside a Honda Element parked on King Street and rip apart door panels before getting out, said Aspen Assistant Police Chief Bill Linn.
The worst damage occurred to a Lexus parked near the Aspen Club on Riverside Drive a week ago, he said. A bear ripped apart the inside of the car and defecated in it three times, Linn said.
“There wasn’t even any significant food inside,” Linn wrote in a Facebook post about the Lexus incident. “But bears have such a fine sense of smell, they can smell the empty junk food bag or stray french fry.
“You know, the one that fell down between the console and your driver’s seat.”
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