Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe CHELYABINSK, Russia, April 26 (UPI) -- A large beaver smashed into a grocery store in Russia, breaking several bottles of vodka inside the shop. The store was in Chelyabinsk in the southern Ural Mountains, an area that has been experiencing bad forest fires recently, the Novosti news agency said. Advertisement "The saleswoman saw a large animal near a storeroom and called the local emergencies service," a spokesman for the local government said. "The animal was apparently frightened by nearby forest fires, and decided to get assistance from people." Animal control officers were able to capture the beaver and remove it from the store, releasing it in an area of forest away from the fires. Thousands of acres of forest have burned this year in Siberia and the Urals in what officials say is the worst forest-fire season in 30 years.
