--- title: Bear Made a Pit Stop at the Liquor Store description: A bear in Bristol, CT made a casual venture into a liquor store named Crazy Bruce's, all captured on security footage. canonical: https://time.com/5366747/bear-liquor-store/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-14T15:54:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:19.550Z og:title: This Thirsty Bear Made a Pit Stop at the Liquor Store og:description: This thirsty bear made a pit stop at a Connecticut liquor store og:url: https://time.com/5366747/bear-liquor-store/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Thirsty Bear Made a Pit Stop at the Liquor Store twitter:description: This thirsty bear made a pit stop at a Connecticut liquor store twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Many Among Us Can Relate to the Thirsty Bear Who Made a Liquor Store Pit Stop  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 14, 2018 3:54 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 14, 2018 3:54 PM UTC [Bears](http://time.com/5270214/does-pepper-spray-work-on-bears/): they’re just like us. They need to make Monday afternoon [liquor runs](http://time.com/5366597/ryan-reynolds-drink-fallon/) to stock up on supplies to get through the rest of the week in good spirits. At least, that certainly seemed to be the case for a Bristol, CT bear, who cruised through Crazy Bruce’s liquor store earlier this week. According to security video procured by the [_Hartford Courant_](http://www.courant.com/community/bristol/hc-news-bristol-bear-crazy-bruce-20180813-story.html), the savvy bear set off the automatic sliding door of the establishment in a Shop Rite Plaza on Monday, making it easy enough to step inside. It was only about 2:00 p.m., which suggests this bear had an especially tough Monday. We all can relate. Unfortunately — or fortunately, depending on how you look at it — the bear didn’t make it all the way into the inner sanctum of Crazy Bruce’s. Instead, a quick-thinking employee locked an inner door, keeping the bear chilling in the foyer while they figured out what to do. An unaware customer was waved through, but no incidences arose despite the unusual situation. “One of the guys saw him outside and at first thought it was a big dog, but when he came into the foyer you could see,” Dan Niedzwiecki, an assistant store manager, told the _Courant._ Eventually the bear, denied access to the store’s goods, headed out to the parking lot. Hopefully he found what he was looking for in more natural environs. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5366747/bear-liquor-store/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5366747/bear-liquor-store/"},"headline":"Many Among Us Can Relate to the Thirsty Bear Who Made a Liquor Store Pit Stop","datePublished":"2018-08-14T15:54:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:19.550Z","description":"He was denied access — and not just because he was lacking ID","url":"https://time.com/5366747/bear-liquor-store/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5366747/bear-liquor-store/","name":"Many Among Us Can Relate to the Thirsty Bear Who Made a Liquor Store Pit Stop"}}]}] ```