A court in Macedonia has held a bear liable for $3,545 for stealing honey from a beekeeper.
The beekeeper has successfully kept the bear at bay for several weeks by blaring songs by the Serbian "turbo-folk" star Ceca, but the bear returned after a generator ran out of power and the music stopped.
The beekeeper then began a year-long lawsuit. After ruling the bear liable for theft, the court ordered the government to pay the damages because the bear belongs to a "protected" species.
