Azra Noonari, 39, had her own hubcaps stolen at home in Luton just weeks before the incident at Woburn Safari Park.  She was with her six-year-old daughter and two-year-old son on a day trip to the Bedfordshire park.

"I was driving us to the bear and wolf area when I saw a car stopped right in front of me," she said. "There was a bear in front of it, so I stopped too and started taking pictures. I saw it take a hubcap off the car then start walking towards us. I locked all the doors quickly, we didn't know what it would do.It put the hubcap down and then banged on the window, as if it was trying to get my attention. It was almost like it wanted to give me the wheel cap. Maybe the bear thought I needed the hubcap.My little boy was crying but my daughter was enjoying it. She was saying, 'Oh my God mummy, look what he's doing'."

I just hope they don't get hold of a tin opener.

It was the obvious next step.

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