Perhaps out there on the east coast and midwestern states Black Bears meet your specifications; but here in the west, they have a completely different attitude.
I have been living with the damn things for the last 35 years and on average I have had to shoot one about every other year. HAD TO SHOOT, not hunting, not for sport, not for food.
HAD to shoot them; for livestock depredation, killing my dogs, and being a clear and present danger to my family.
Finding one in the tool shed is not that unusual; no food kept in there, just gasoline, diesel, hand tools and power tools.
Can’t even walk the orchard or my fields unarmed (45 Long Colt), especially in spring and late fall.
Out here it is not the least bit surprising to have one taking a stroll down the main street of our town; Forest Service or Fish and Game will try to scare them out but usually wind up having to kill them.
I am also 67 years old and have been a hunter all my life (got my first deer at 5 years old); I have hunted Deer, Elk, Antelope, Bear, Mountain Lion, Bobcat, Coyote, just about everything that walks, crawls, slithers or flies in the western United States.
It’s just in the last 25 or 30 years that the Black Bears have become a problem and a threat.
Can’t say I know the reason for their behavior, but that doesn’t change the behavior.
In the last 10 years I think it’s like 6 to 8 people who have been killed and eaten by Black Bears in the western states.
In response to your last sentence. I don’t act like a fool around any wild animal; deer, bear, elk, even a coyote is more than capable of killing a human being. Were nothing more than a soft squishy bag of meat to them.
I don’t even take chances with domesticated livestock; more than one ranch hand has been killed or maimed by a pissed off bull, or a cow protecting her calf.
I wasn’t talking about you when I said something about acting like a fool...But I’ve seen plenty of tourists do just that in the Smokies...
I don’t know what is different about your black bears, but when one wanders into town here, neighborhood dogs will tree the bear and the Animal Control people come out, tranquilize the bear and take it back in the mountains....