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lokitdwn t1_itxpkgt wrote

Good opportunity to utilize the door locks

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werdnak84 t1_ity0s8x wrote

OUT OF THE WAY! HE'S GOTTA GET TO WORK!

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therealcocochanel OP t1_itz5jk3 wrote

I thought he was just ‘Hanging out on the passenger side of his best friend’s ride’ “I don’t want no cubs….’

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yudkib t1_itxv6i3 wrote

I’m sure Fox News was the first to report about a black bear checking for unlocked cars

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mynameisnotshamus t1_itz3v3r wrote

Stay tuned for shocking footage capturing a young black male in Simsbury breaking into cars in broad daylight.

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yudkib t1_itzea31 wrote

The joke wouldn’t be funny if it didn’t resonate with people. The problem you’re having is entirely of the Republican’s doing. I was registered as a republican but got tired of the constant dog whistling. Give it a shot, you might like it.

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Backpacker7385 t1_ity3ir1 wrote

Bears are pretty smart when it comes to getting into things that smell good. Reminds me of the old park ranger story about how there’s a lot of overlap between the dumbest humans and the smartest bears when it comes to “bear proof” trash cans and food storage containers.

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Unharmful_Truths t1_itz55f3 wrote

I'm dying. I would LOVE to see a mashup of bears vs. humans attempting to get into childproof, bearproof, etc. objects.

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DicmoVolant t1_itzav27 wrote

The bears in the Adirondacks even learned how to open the Bear Vault brand of bear kegs. They’ve figured out hanging food bags as well. Clever bastards.

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nick-j- t1_itzjgpu wrote

If you ever wonder why its kind of a pain in the ass when you go to a National Park to open up the trash can, bears are the reason why.

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TerpPhysicist t1_itz31n7 wrote

These catalytic converter thieves are getting out of control!

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LazyUpvote88 t1_ity7bfg wrote

It almost looks like a dude in a bear suit. Love these beasts!

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lokitdwn t1_itye213 wrote

I was thinking the same thing🤣🤣

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pgm_01 t1_itynoht wrote

This is why you should not leave your pic-a-nic basket in the car.

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King_Calvo t1_itxx5kt wrote

Oh yeah when I visited a bear preserve in Montana they were explaining how a bear can get into a locked car in about five minutes. Don’t leave snacks there

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DicmoVolant t1_itzb89k wrote

The bears in Montana can just rip the door off it’s hinges.

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mkt853 t1_itxun27 wrote

How does the bear know how to open car doors?

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96greenmonster t1_itxxn99 wrote

Clearly you never watched Jurassic Park. If a raptor can figure it out a bear can

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Unharmful_Truths t1_itz52o8 wrote

I've spent a LOT of time in upstate New York (where my dad, grandparents, etc are from). Talking like Corning, Horseheads, etc. There are a LOT of bears there. My grandfather would keep an unloaded shotgun by the window. When a bear would curiously come up and start pawing at the window and looking at us he would pick up the unloaded shotgun, pump it once and point it at the bear. EVERY TIME the bear would open its eyes wide with fear and run away.

So they are savvy enough to know what a gun is but not savvy enough to know if its loaded.

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Kinuika t1_itz82b3 wrote

To be fair I’m also savvy enough to know what a gun is but also savvy enough to get the heck away from one pointed at my face unloaded or not!

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Unharmful_Truths t1_itz87km wrote

Oh same. Except I have an old rifle in my attic and when I have people check out the roof or put in a fan or anything (my family never goes up there) I'm like "dont' be scared! it doesn't work" and then when they get their head level with the floor a rifle is pointing at their head. And I'm like "I really need to move that one day!" (same thing happens 3-years later)

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therealcocochanel OP t1_itxy2rr wrote

I’m not sure. But they also tried to open my neighbor’s front screen door. They are savvy af

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Ruca705 t1_itz0hsm wrote

Bears have been opening car doors for a long time now, I’m surprised you haven’t seen any videos before, they go viral maybe once or twice a year. I’ve even seen one where the bear climbed in, the door closed behind it, and he was stuck in the car! That was super dangerous because someone had to go let it out.

The way to avoid this is - don’t keep food in your car at ALL, I’m pretty sure one of the videos I saw the bear was going for a single banana.

And lock your doors. You get a two-for-one with this because you won’t get your car tossed by bears or people.

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InvisibleTeeth t1_itylqii wrote

Silly bear, thats not where the catalytic converter is.

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No-Zookeepergame2559 t1_itxqz50 wrote

They opened my neighbors refrigerator in their garage a few weeks ago and then did the same to my garage fridge a week later. Needless to say we are being much more careful about closing our garage doors right away.

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QueenOfQuok t1_ityzlan wrote

Yeah? He's just going for a day hike and getting stuff out of his car. Don't be rude.

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LuckyWrench t1_ityuc8r wrote

He looks like he’s wondering if he left the stove on

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jules13131382 t1_ityzugl wrote

He’s from the uk and forgot that drivers side is on the right for the yanks

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b33r_engineer t1_itz60ns wrote

He must have thought it was his Ubear.

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PracticableSolution t1_itzazxp wrote

A park ranger once said that there’s a considerable amount of overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bear and the dumbest tourist

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SueBeee t1_iu0fylv wrote

I'm moving to Litchfield county next month. This will totally not happen to us, with our house in the middle of the woods, right?

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keriiiiii t1_iu13kkx wrote

economy's so bad even bears have to get a second job

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buried_lede t1_ityoc37 wrote

They are good at this. I am in mortal fear I will wake up to find one in my house.

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mkt853 t1_itzds4a wrote

Since a bear weighs as much as it does, could it in theory break into a locked door just by leaning on it or using a little bit of force? If a human can kick in a locked door, I imagine a bear weighing much more could exert a lot more force on a door than a human.

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buried_lede t1_iu12v0x wrote

I have really good strong doors, but I watched a bunch of YouTube videos one day about how to bear proof your home or cabin and saw some where bears just ripped through exterior walls, lol. I am now paranoid about every weak spot of the property. I also close windows in the kitchen when I am cooking.

I am being a bit of a wreck over worrying it but whatever helps you sleep at night

Weak spots on doors are usually the door jams. If they can lean or pick at the frame of the door and it’s weak, they can get in

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Unharmful_Truths t1_itz4xbx wrote

Everybody needs a designated driver. This big guy called an Uber because he had been overserved on fermented berries. I think we should APPLAUD his behavior.

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midmodmad t1_itz5f6e wrote

r/bearsdoinghumanthings like leaving for work.

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Halifax199 t1_itz6zvc wrote

No food, no bears. Pretty simple.

DEEP wants everyone to be afraid so that they can start killing them. Because DEEP is all about the killing.

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Halifax199 t1_itzz4jm wrote

Your reply is simplistic, but bear biology/life history is quite complex. Elder females not only regulate population, they teach their young the way of the bear. Kill the females and it's a bloody free for all with rogue animals having to fend for themselves and unregulated breeding. There are many instances of this in nature - bears, deer, coyote, elephants - where hunting causes increases in animal-human conflict and population size (the latter from compensatory reproduction). The only way hunting works is through eradication, and then you have removed all of the other functions of bear, deer, etc. from the forest - like plant/tree propagule dispersal, nutrient cycling, and more. As the animal control officer/LEO in the CT town with the biggest bear-human interaction problem told us, he doesn't have a bear problem, he has a people problem. NO REWARDS, NO BEARS. There's simple for you.

I've done 30+ years as a forest ecologist in CT and even longer as a student of the primary literature of behavioral and population ecology. I've seen this in play all across New England including on forestlands in Maine on properties of up to 10,000 acres.

DEEP is counting on you not knowing (or caring about) any of this. They are all about killing, logging, and destroying, the very antithesis of environmental protection.

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buried_lede t1_iu1u7xo wrote

What the heck has a bobcat ever done to you? I can’t think of a CT animal that messes with people less than a bobcat

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SeanFromQueens t1_iu0x77r wrote

This is CT, being against biodiversity being on team Lyme Disease and other parasite born diseases. Kill off the bears, then down the food chain critters like mice breed without any problems.

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SeanFromQueens t1_iu10yxq wrote

But the next disease is what we're trying to avoid not the disease discovered from a surreptitiously decline of biodiversity that gave rise to disease carrying mice in South Eastern CT 40+ years ago. Let's learn from our past and do better.

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krispzz t1_itzb5s5 wrote

and they say car thefts are down!

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RamenBoy21 t1_itzmiel wrote

>I got an uber ad under this post

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Money-Measurement961 t1_itzq25u wrote

22 years of living in the ct woods and I’ve yet so see a bear.

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therealcocochanel OP t1_iu0m21k wrote

Come to Simsbury. I literally see them weekly.

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Money-Measurement961 t1_iu14kui wrote

Where exactly should I go?

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No-Zookeepergame2559 t1_iu1zfd6 wrote

I live in Simsbury and second this. Spend 2 days here and if you’re looking you’ll see one. Just walk around Penwood State Forest or McLean Game refuge or better get drive around until you find a neighborhood where it’s trash collection day and just keep circling… you’ll see one… especially if you go in the early morning.

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Money-Measurement961 t1_iu20kap wrote

Thank you! Simsbury is about an hour and 20 mins from me but I really want to see a bear!! I might take a drive around. Scared to walk into the woods where there might be one😂

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meesch_mosh t1_itzqr2s wrote

We watched a bear open the neighbor’s car door last year. Sniffed around, left the car and tried the same thing on the vehicle next to it. Not a scratch on either car.

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okwhynot64 t1_itztaqw wrote

So what? He needed a lift...!

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SeanFromQueens t1_iu0w49r wrote

More like he needed... a Lyft or an Uber, he doesn't have license.

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tebus81 t1_iu0zfc1 wrote

Where the hell did I leave my ID?!

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tydi16 t1_iu23h54 wrote

Jesus Christ people he’s clearly got places to be, can y’all just leave him be?

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yesitsreallyme203 t1_iu26e09 wrote

These bears just get away with home invasions and now burglary 🤣

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CTLI9 t1_iu0i06q wrote

Fake

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rabidpirate t1_iu11lh1 wrote

A garbage animal standing next to a garbage car, it's poetic.

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Reginold_Rock t1_itz7oxp wrote

Just maybeeee ct should open a bear season. I personally wouldn’t like a bear being that close to me lol.

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cryptocratic7 t1_itz06ky wrote

In Lamont CT even the bears are feeling the pinch. They are stealing prius, picnic basket and mufflers.

Edit: downvotes for truth 🥳

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