I suppose he spilled a lot of what he was slurping up, or he'd have gone straight to the DTs, drinking 36 of them.
I worked in a large campground in North Cascades National Park, up the road from Baker Lake. During the summer at the entrance station I kept a few demolished coolers to show what bears could do. And once hunting season was around, I got rid of the coolers, so I wasn't advertising that we had bears.