--- title: Bear Head Stuck in Plastic Jar description: Bear gets its head stuck in a plastic jar. canonical: https://time.com/70118/bear-gets-head-stuck-in-plastic-jar-becomes-irl-winnie-the-pooh/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-21T14:37:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:57.202Z og:title: Bear Gets Head Stuck in Plastic Jar, Becomes Real Life Winnie the Pooh og:description: Silly bear, there's no honey in there og:url: https://time.com/70118/bear-gets-head-stuck-in-plastic-jar-becomes-irl-winnie-the-pooh/ 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: Bear Gets Head Stuck in Plastic Jar, Becomes Real Life Winnie the Pooh twitter:description: Silly bear, there's no honey in there twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bear Gets Head Stuck in Plastic Jar, Becomes IRL Winnie the Pooh  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 21, 2014 2:37 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 21, 2014 2:37 PM UTC A bear was rescued after getting a jar stuck on its head near Sudbury. // [pic.twitter.com/WFOt88NVsK](http://t.co/WFOt88NVsK) — Canoe (@Canoe) [April 21, 2014](https://twitter.com/Canoe/status/458207915476672512?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) A bear with [a plastic jar](https://www.facebook.com/gsps.news/posts/693539710687623?stream%5Fref=10) stuck on its head was bumbling around a Canadian city early morning Easter Sunday — a scenario that the [CBC joked](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/bear-gets-head-stuck-in-plastic-jar-in-greater-sudbury-1.2616233) is reminiscent of the iconic illustrations of Winnie the Pooh [scarfing down](http://books.google.com/books?id=4evQDDcGpwoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=winnie+the+pooh+aa+milne&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FCZVU62YMMjMsQTM6YLoCQ&ved=0CE8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false) honey in a pot face first. Police found the black bear wandering around Lively (a part of Greater Sudbury, Ontario), unable to remove a plastic jar intended for birdseed from its head and “walking into a variety of objects including a police cruiser,” according to a statement from the [Greater Sudbury Police](http://www.gsps.ca/en/newslist/index.aspx?newsId=1ZyCv5WNxgHBrF5skhNhFQeQuAleQuAl). The bear was tranquilized and removed from the area. Fortunately, residents have little to fear; black bear attacks are generally [rare](https://www.bear.org/website/bear-pages/black-bear/bears-a-humans/119-how-dangerous-are-black-bears.html). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/70118/bear-gets-head-stuck-in-plastic-jar-becomes-irl-winnie-the-pooh/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/70118/bear-gets-head-stuck-in-plastic-jar-becomes-irl-winnie-the-pooh/"},"headline":"Bear Gets Head Stuck in Plastic Jar, Becomes IRL Winnie the Pooh","datePublished":"2014-04-21T14:37:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:57.202Z","description":"Silly bear, there's no honey in there","url":"https://time.com/70118/bear-gets-head-stuck-in-plastic-jar-becomes-irl-winnie-the-pooh/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"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/70118/bear-gets-head-stuck-in-plastic-jar-becomes-irl-winnie-the-pooh/","name":"Bear Gets Head Stuck in Plastic Jar, Becomes IRL Winnie the Pooh"}}]}] ```