Суд у Македонії засудив ведмедя за крадіжку меду та завдання кримінальної шкоди бджоляру. Однак, скамійка підсудних була порожня, і закутого в наручники ведмедя у залі не було. Передає Падді Кларк:

Послухати репортаж

The case was brought by an exasperated beekeeper after a year of vainly trying to protect his beehives from the marauding bear.

For a while, he kept the animal away by buying a generator, lighting up the area, and playing thumping Serbian turbo-folk music. But when the generator ran out of power and the music fell silent, the bear was back and the honey was gone again.

The beekeeper decided to go to law, and the bear was tried in absentia. The court agreed he had a case and found the bear guilty. But because the animal had no owner and belonged to a protected species, it ordered the state to pay for the damage.

The bear, meanwhile, remains at large -- somewhere in Macedonia.

Paddy Clark, BBC

Послухати слова

exasperated
розлючений

vainly
безуспішно, марно

thumping Serbian turbo-folk music
дуже голосна сербська музика стилю турбо-фольк

ran out of power
закінчилося пальне

the music fell silent
музика змовкла

to go to law
звернутися до суду

the bear was tried in absentia
ведмедя судили без його присутності

a case
судова справа

found the bear guilty
оголосив ведмедя винним

remains at large
залишається на волі