Imagine spending most of your life with an albatross a plastic lid stuck around your neck. A black bear cub in Michigan was spotted on a trail cam in 2023 with the lid. There are regulations for barrel lids to prevent just this sort of thing. A search at the time proved fruitless. Over the next two years, he grew and surprisingly carried on normal life wearing the lid. In May, a local landowner saw the bear and called the Department for Natural Resources, who responded quickly. According to Vice, the bear was lured into a humane cylindrical trap, then tranquilized while the lid was cut away. The bear weighed 110 pounds, which is normal for a two-year-old bear, but he had a bald spot around his neck, which is understandable. He wandered back into the woods, now marked with an ear tag that shouldn't interfere with bear business the way a huge lid would. -via Damn Interesting