BORN TO BE WILD
In April 2007, Latvia gifted the small Estonian island of Ruhnu with an 88-pound chocolate bear. This symbolic gift was offered to commemorate the Latvia-to-Estonia voyage made by a live bear the previous year. The seventy residents of Ruhnu were mighty surprised by the visiting bear when it floated into town on a chunk of ice.
The renegade bear eluded capture and lived as a fugitive in the roughly 8 kilometres of forest that cover the island. A summer celebrity, the bear is thought to have voluntarily ended his vacation and gone back to Latvia.
Fortunately, the live bear didn't sample any of the residents of Ruhnu, though the same can’t be said for his chocolate counterpart. The chocolate was viewed as a commemoration of the odd event that boosted Ruhnu tourism, then divided up equally amongst all seventy residents and eaten.
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