“I’m Godwinn Okonkow reporting live from the scene of a major gold heist here at Millenia National Bank. Joining me now is Sgt. Klaudena Rice. What  can you tell us about today’s robbery?”

“This crime was pulled off by an experienced group of thieves. They managed to walk away with millions in gold from the bank’s vault. We’ll have more information once it becomes available.”

*Sgt- short for Sergeant  

At an abandoned airport a trio of robbers begin making plans.

“Alright boys here’s the plan. We’re going to hide the gold in large containers of SHAZZ COLA. We’ll fly over The Gentle Grove National Park and drop the boxes in the forest. Once things start to cool down we’ll head back to the forest and collect our gold. Load up the plane, it’s time to fly” the head of the bandits ordered.

At the break of dawn the plane flew over the forest dropping boxes of soda and gold to the ground. The crew had attached parachutes to the boxes to make sure that they had a soft landing. In a few days the crooks would return to claim their gold before disappearing to Mexico. Sounds like the perfect crime, right?

When they returned to the forest the baddies found a bunch of empty pop cans but no gold. Their leader was furious even accusing one of his henchmen of stealing the gold.

“Okay, which one of you knuckleheads stole my gold?” the boss man angrily shouted.

“Your gold?” one of the henchmen interrupted. “You mean OUR gold! And it couldn’t have been either of us. We were all together the past week.” 

Over the course of the next couple of weeks the number of bear sightings at the park had doubled. Encountering a bear at Gentle Grove National Park was very rare. If anything, the bear seemed more interested in the campers’ picnic baskets than the people. Though he didn’t attack the campers, the bear would now ransack the campsite in search of something. It was a scary but brief interlude that had visitors to the park spooked.

*ransack- rummage through

*interlude- pause or hiatus 

While scoping out campsites for picnic baskets Gentle Groves’ resident bear Bingo began to develop a taste for a bit of the bubbly. Namely soda pop. When one of the boxes dropped from the sky a while back, it smashed near Bingo. Curious, he smacked the cans around before chugging the delicious cola. He immediately felt a jolt of energy and proceeded to guzzle every can of pop he could get his paws on. 

*scoping- to investigate 

People started to stay away from the park fearing a potential bear attack. Ranger Rick Smith decided to hold a press conference to reassure the public that all was well.

“Good morning. My name is Ranger Rick Smith. I have been with the Park for 20 years and I can report that we have never had an incident between our wildlife and humans. The only issue I’ve had with any animal has been a troublemaking bear who steals picnic baskets.” “Oh No” the Ranger muttered under his breath. “ It couldn’t be him. Not Bingo?”

Ranger Smith and his fellow rangers headed out to capture Bingo. When they found him he was passed in a pile of empty pop cans. He had crashed after experiencing a massive rush of caffeine and sugar. When he woke up Ranger Smith was standing the other side of some steel bars.

“I’m sorry Bingo but this is for your own good.”

“But all I’ve been doing is drinking that sugary liquid that fell from the sky a couple of weeks ago.”

“Ranger Smith! You’ve gotta see this!” his fellow Ranger yelled out.

“Can I have your attention please. We were the ones who stole the gold from The Millenia National Bank. We stole an airplane, mixed the gold with a shipment of SHAZZ COLA, and dropped it off in the forest. When we arrived the gold was missing. If we do not get our gold back we will burn the forest to the ground. You have 24 hours” the head robber warned.