In the middle of church yesterday a guy taps me on the shoulder and whispers that they need me outside. So I slip out quietly and he tells me there’s a bear by the dumpster, which is where people park, and they can’t get it to leave. There had been a reception the day before and they didn’t lock the dumpster lid so there was garbage everywhere, and lying right in the middle of it all was a pretty good size bear.
I very nicely asked the bear to leave, which it did with a lot of hissing and jaw popping. I then proceeded to clean up the garbage so that the bear wouldn’t return. About 5 minutes later the bear returns, so we repeat the process of me very politely asking it to leave and it doing so with a lot of hissing and huffing.
This repeats itself every 5 minutes or so for the next 20 minutes. Finally I get everything cleaned up and I’m locking the dumpster when I hear a noise overhead. There are 3 cubs in the tree right above me. [wallmad]
Doesn’t the first rule of bear safety have something to do with a sow and her cubs?? [hihi]
And here I spend 20 minutes between a sow and her cubs, running her off every time she tries to get to her cubs. [ko]
I very nicely asked the bear to leave, which it did with a lot of hissing and jaw popping. I then proceeded to clean up the garbage so that the bear wouldn’t return. About 5 minutes later the bear returns, so we repeat the process of me very politely asking it to leave and it doing so with a lot of hissing and huffing.
This repeats itself every 5 minutes or so for the next 20 minutes. Finally I get everything cleaned up and I’m locking the dumpster when I hear a noise overhead. There are 3 cubs in the tree right above me. [wallmad]
Doesn’t the first rule of bear safety have something to do with a sow and her cubs?? [hihi]
And here I spend 20 minutes between a sow and her cubs, running her off every time she tries to get to her cubs. [ko]
