>http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2010/08/06/1019751?sac=Home
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>In the most recent heist, Marek Rosin said he awoke at about 1:30 a.m. on July 29 to find the bear had pushed open the door to his back porch and was raiding his chest freezer.
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>"He was about four feet from me with his head in the freezer munching on a pizza," Rosin said. "It was almost comical if it wouldn't have been that close."
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>Rosin scared the bear off before it could eat anything more.

When my family bought our house in New Hampshire in 1962, it had a resident brown bear that hibernated in the fireplace on the back porch.

It was a stone fireplace about 12ft wide inside that was backed up against the same size fireplace that was in the great room. The great room fireplace was one of the primary heat sources when the house was in use in the winters, and after a couple of days using the fireplace the stones inside and outside would stay warm for several days - apparently the bear had that figured out.

The previous owners didn't mind her (they said it was a her) being there and they took a screen off the porch during the winters so she could get in w/o tearing anything up.

She spent the first 2 winters we owned the place in the fireplace. I think she decided to find someplace else after that when we started going there every weekend - I think her spot got too hot (my dad fried an egg on the mantle once to prove a point)!

Somewhere I still have pictures of her in the fireplace. From what little I remember, she could care less about us being there and she proved that bears do indeed poop in the woods, or at least not on the porch as far as we saw.