Blooming Grove - Porridge just doesn't cut it anymore, but a pork chop is just right.
Just ask the three bears - a mama bear and two youngsters - that crashed the Medina
family barbecue at their White Tail Run home on the Fourth of July.

"I do believe they thought my house was the Ramada Inn. They hung around my
inflatable pool, took a little sun, overturned my grill and ate my last pork chop," reports
Sadie Medina. "Afterwards they decided they wanted to have their own Fourth of July.
They rummaged through the garbage, took out all the leftover fireworks and for dessert
ate the two Whopper Jrs. and a box of mozzarella sticks."
The Medinas had gone to a neighbor's house after their barbecue and accidentally left
behind a pork chop - the equivalent of an engraved invitation to a bear.
Daughter Elena, 18, who stayed home, was spooked when she heard a commotion
outside. When she saw the bears, she frantically called the neighbor's house. When her
parents arrived home, they saw the bears sitting by the inflatable pool.
"They were just hanging out," Medina said. "They were walking around like nothing, like
they owned the house."
Four Blooming Grove police officers responded to the family's call. As the cops drove
up, the bushy bandits fled into the woods behind the house.
Police said that they've gotten several calls about bear sightings on that road. Sgt. Matt
Kelly said police won't shoot a bear unless someone's life is in danger. Kelly cautions that
along with food, bird feeders are also a bear magnet.