Presented with his favorite snacks locked away in a block of ice, tantalizingly out of reach as if mocking his feeble attempts to dig it out of its frozen encasement, the bear mulls his plan for murderous revenge on his human captors. They shall pay, he tells himself. They shall pay with blood for reducing his life to that of public humiliation, as the blissfully ignorant onlookers laugh at his struggles.
Then, just as the last crucial piece of his brilliant and unstoppable plan of deception, escape, and revenge is about to fall into place, the ice finally yields and cracks open.
Oooh … apples …. yummy apples …
… on second thought, all is well.
As they aren’t entirely useless, the puny humans shall be forgiven.