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Unwelcome bear on Boulder hospital property chased off with country music

"Maybe it was the country-western music or maybe it was just too loud to sleep. Either way, Colorado Division of Wildlife officials succeeded over the weekend in shooing away a hibernating bear after it was found holed up under a residence on Boulder Community Hospital property.

A plumber for the hospital found the bear around 1 p.m. Friday in a crawl space beneath one of two cottages that the hospital reserves near its Mapleton Center, 311 Mapleton Ave., for new out-of-state employees looking for permanent housing, said hospital spokesman Rich Sheehan. The worker was crawling under the porch to fix frozen pipes when he heard growling, Sheehan said.

"He moved his flashlight around and saw the bear and made a hasty retreat," Sheehan said.

The worker called city wildlife officials, who called the Colorado Division of Wildlife. State wildlife officials discussed several options and decided to scare the bear away by tucking a loud radio in the hole with the bear, Sheehan said. They played country western music, he said.

"They wanted to try to make it really noisy so that the bear would leave," Sheehan said."

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