A bear ate my car

WILDOBS ^ | 11-7-2008 | WILDOBS

[MtnClimber]

This happened only a few miles from my home. I have had four bear encounters this year. The last one was a bear that was lying down outside my front door(actually it was just outside the gate onto the deck which is about 3 feet from the front door). I was letting our old dog outside the last time before going to bed and the motion sensor light turned on just as I was opening the gate. I was only inches from this estimated 300lb bear when it jumped up, snorted at me and then ran. The bear must have been there for a while and been still to avoid triggering the motion sensor.

There are other bear and mountain lion reports on this site. I mat post some of them.

[MtnClimber]

Bear reports.

[ChocChipCookie]

Where do you live?

[Drango]

A moose bit my sister.

[autumnraine]

Wow, where do you live that you can someone can leave their purse and keys in an unlocked car?

I live in a VERY rural area and still wouldn’t chance that.

[Tax-chick]

I read that story in “Little House in the Big Woods.”

[MtnClimber]

Bear reports.

[freekitty]

I hear about these bears in peoples yards all the time in PA. Are you from there?

[LibFreeOrDie]

A black bear got killed this week crossing the highway in Nashua, New Hampshire. That’s not country, it’s small city/suburbs. He’d been lurking around a restaurant earlier.

[Squantos]

Cold Creek Canyon Colorado is looks like !

[robomatik]

when i lived in durango, co., i came home from school one day and found a baby bear cub in our living room (in the summer we would leave our back door wide open as well as the front door which had a hinged screen door). it made me wonder where mama bear was.

i decided to go to a bar a few blocks away to get a beer and calm down. i came back c. an hour later and it was gone. (no scat left behind either).

sometimes, i miss colorado for its occasional wildlife excitement. :)

[Cindy]

ping

[MtnClimber]

I live in unincorporated Gilpin County, Colorado about two miles west of where this is shown on the map at the linked web site.

[Scutter]

We get a fair amount of black bears raiding trash cans here (Western Washington), but so far I haven’t heard of any bear-jackings. Where do you live?

[MS.BEHAVIN]

PING!

[moondoggie]

Wow...I'm shocked! All the bears around here disappeared in October.

How much snow have you had up your way?

[MtnClimber]

It is Coal Creek Canyon, but it is often cold too. It was down to about 3F a few days ago.

[george76]

Any requests for the DOW to collar / tag the perp?

[arthurus]

A couple of years ago a bear led the animal controllers all around town for several days here and escaped from them after they had got it into their truck, not once , but twice. A friend of mine one night during that excitement heard his German Shepherd going crazy in his back yard and went out to investigate. He saw another big dog in the yard and yelled at it to get it to leave. Then it stood up and my friend quickly went back into the house and called animal control. They came and saw the bear but it left them before they could catch it. They never did manage to catch and hold onto that bear. It just found some other place to be.

[driftdiver]

Thats cause she’s got a bear in her car. Who in their right mind would break into a car like that.