Saturday, January 24, 2026
Bear in the Basement
A homeowner in Altadena, California, had a bear living in the crawl space under their home for more than a month! They had contacted state wildlife officials, but attempts to evict the 550-pound bear were unsuccessful. The bear was causing some damage down there, so they did the prudent thing and shut off the gas line before Christmas. Then they called the Bear League, who does this a lot. They sent Scott and Dave, and they aren't afraid of anything. They couldn't lure Yogi out with a pic-a-nic basket, so Scott went down into the crawl space and got behind the bear to chase him out! Dave was ready outside to shoo the bear away, and we get to see it because he was wearing a camera on his hat. The bear barely squeezed through the opening. No bears nor humans were injured in the operation. (via Laughing Squid)
Bear in mind the need to barely have time to get your bearings before an unbearably adorable, bare naked, toothy grin-bearing bear from the Baring Strait bears down on you without possesing the proper bearing to come bearing gifts of beer.
ReplyDeleteGood one!
DeleteYou bruined that by not having your name displayed.
DeleteDo we have to call Goldilocks ?
Thank you!
DeletePlease don't, WilliamRocket - I'd hate to come to a grizzly end!
DeleteIt is sad that we hume beans build out abodes all over the place without allowing room for the wild animals.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Billy Gates is right and we should decimate the human population (not my family and friends though) ... maybe even do a sort of Solyent Green to feed the carnivores, and so aid their increasing their numbers.
Decimate, reduce by 90%, literally.
DeleteHow many are there ? 8,300,000,000 ish.
How many would there be, post Billy Gates' ideas ?
830,000,000.
The rest of the story: The bear was evicted, but then he crawled under somebody else's house! Now, those people have to deal with the bear.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they should just let him live in the den.
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