Bears can be not only destructive, but dangerous.
Cops/DEEP, when they finally came after he called in the problem, didn't even get out of their cop cars.
I'm pretty sure I posted the saga, when it happened at the time.
This is in a state that claims there are *no* cougars in the state ... a good friend of mine has photos of one that was in her yard while they were clearing the land to build their new home. It had a radio collar on. Heh.