A bread-loving bear at Aspen's farmers market lifts CBS Colorado
Officers used bean bag rounds to send the animal on its way, and the clip ran at about sixty-four times the channel's usual first-day pace.
CBS ColoradoStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 148,903 views a day, 64 times a normal first day on this channel (2,323).
Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread
What does it take for a Colorado local news clip to break away from the pack? A bear walking into the Aspen farmers market and helping itself to pastries and bread, as the title puts it. On its first day, the video moved at roughly sixty-four times the pace a new upload usually manages on CBS Colorado.
That gap is the story. The channel runs on breaking news, reporter segments and First Alert Weather updates, and most new videos there begin with a few thousand views. This one is short on politics and long on pastry.
The description adds the ending. Officers fired non-lethal bean bag rounds to get the bear to leave the market. Aspen, the mountain resort town better known for its ski slopes, has a long history of bears wandering into its streets. The timing may matter too. Late September falls in the stretch when Colorado's bears eat almost nonstop to fatten up before winter, so maybe the bakery stand was simply too good to pass up?
The station tagged it "CBS4 News Top Story," a nod to the CBS4 name it carried for years.
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- Channel
- CBS Colorado
- Subscribers
- 173,000
- Video published
- September 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 52,788 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 148,903
The numbers
The figures show how far one bear's snack run outpaced a typical first day on this news channel.
