A surveillance video shows a bear rummaging around inside of a 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost in Southern California in January. The video was submitted to the car insurance company as evidence of the extensive damage, but investigators were suspicious and turned to a wildlife biologist for help. What appears to be a brown bear, a species that doesn't live in Southern California, was actually a man in a bear costume. The insurance company also found bear damage claims for two other cars with two other insurance companies on the same date at the same location. And strangely, no one in the neighborhood was aware of any bears spotted in January, which would have been shared. Four men were arrested Wednesday for insurance fraud. A bear costume, pictured above, was found at a suspect's home. The weird scheme could have been a Scooby-Doo plot, and you have to wonder why the Rolls Royce owner didn't just try to sell the car instead of ruining it. -via Metafilter
(Image source: CA Dept of Insurance)
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