4. On a third occasion, a bear penetrated the spa, and downed a 3-liter jug of massage oil. The majestic creature has been a tourist draw for decades in Romania, but this is not Winnie the Pooh. The numbers of attacks on people are through the roof:

3. The bear headed to the breakfast buffet where it ate all the sachets of honey. On another occasion, it entered a hallway spooking this housekeeper:

2. The brown bear - or ursus arctos - is one of the national treasures of my birth country. But in recent years, the man vs nature equation has flipped. I visited one hotel where bears came *inside* the establishment not once, not twice, but three times just in the month of June.

1. At 4:22 am on June 20, the intruder approached the entrance to the four-star resort. The break-in took 23 seconds. The suspect weighed 400 pounds. The target of the burglary? Honey. A thread on how Romania's bear population has exploded:

6. In the dark, with help from an aid group that spent thousands of dollars to replace dead batteries, busted tires, broken transmissions and faulty wiring, one by one dusty and barely functional RVs and campers lumbered out.

3. The leaflet warned the more than 100 homeless people living here to get out today, or else face a $5,000 fine, a Class B misdemeanor and up to one year in jail. But where could these people go? Many have lived in this forest for years in RVs and campers that no longer run: