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Posted on 01/11/2026 7:14:21 AM PST by Dr. Franklin
The 550-pound bear living under a man’s Los Angeles home for 37 days has finally left the building — after being shot at with paintballs.
Altadena homeowner Ken Johnson has been living with the massive black bear under his home since Nov. 30 when it began squatting in his crawl space. The “unbearable” roommate ruined Christmas for Johnson and had him on edge for weeks.
The bear eviction finally happened Tuesday after Johnson contacted “The Bear League” — a group from Lake Tahoe that specializes in bear removal emergencies.
“We heard about Ken, we felt bad for him and flew down and got the bear out,” said Ann Bryant, the founder and executive director.
The crew jumped into action, firing paintballs into the crawl space until the bruin had enough — retreating from its den.
“The bear was gone in 20 minutes,” Bryant said.
The paintballs are filled with vegetable oil and sometimes “they hit the bear in the rump,” added Bryant — who said her organization does between six and eight bear extractions a day.
Johnson told The Post he quickly covered the crawl space with two layers of plywood and sandbags to prevent the bear from ever coming back. The Bear League also placed an “electric mat” in front of the crawlspace designed to give a small shock if stepped on.
The shock mat proved to be handy when the bear returned Wednesday but got zapped.
“He came back, and I was like, ‘oh my gosh.’ He hit the mat and scurried away into darkness,” Johnson said.
The Bear League website says the group offers around-the-clock support, noting its goal is to “educate people about the true nature of these animals.” The league has 2,500 members and 220 volunteers, Bryant said.
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WATCH: Massive Bear Is Finally Dislodged From Under California House – With Shots of Paintball!
“Bears hate this one weird trick. But there’s nothing they can do to stop you.”
Is it illegal to just shoot and kill it?
I’m sure the petabots will call it “cruel”.
Just because the Bear broke into the home without permission he just had every right to live there as the people who paid for the place
Oil on bear canvas. It's not for amateurs.
The Bear League website says the group offers around-the-clock support, noting its goal is to “educate people about the true nature of these animals.”
It doesn't paint a pretty picture.
I got yer “paintballs” right here.
https://www.brennekeusa.com/brands/hunting-ammunition/black-magic-magnum
Unpalate-able really.
Send in a honeybadger. Honeybadger don’t give a sh_t.
“Is it illegal to just shoot and kill it?”
Seriously???
It’s California. It’s probably illegal to refer to the bear in a derogatory manner . . .
I wondered why the California Department of Wildlife or whatever it’s called didn’t just tranquilize the bear and drag it out.
On the plus side, I bet the guy didn’t have any problems with raccoons living under his house.
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Thy sure wasted a lot of time and energy getting rid of the bear. All they had to do was put an endless loop of Kamala speeches on and the bear would have bolted out and never stop running.
The cause of this problem is a deeply embedded cultural mythos, that "Nature" must be protected everywhere, and at all costs. These people do not understand that they are perpetrating a biological catastrophe in process. Life is to be cared for, actively and in detail; else biodiversity and particularly early successional plants and insects take a fatal hit allowing the witless progression of uninterrupted vegetative succession as coupled with continuing invasions of exotic species. With that failure goes the soil system, a tragic systematic error that has brought the collapse of many a civilization.
That crawlspace has to be filthy to the the highest magnitude, far too nasty to store anything in. The homeowner may need to hire one of those professional clean up crews. the kind who are asked to do some “straightening up” for business offices after a flood.
Bring your own gas masks! The air will not be fresh.
In Missouri it would have just quietly disappeared, never to be seen again, like certain bullies.
A NEW CLASS OF “SQUATTERS”
I’d like a shock mat for the critters who manage to get into my shed.
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