I just chased a bear away from my garbage cans.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

He was here last night and I don't want him to get habituated to dining off my garbage.

[La_Serpiente]

1. You chased away a bear?

How did you do that?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. with a .357 Magnum

I just yelled a lot and shot a few rounds into the ground.

[KFC]

2. M-80s

Explosives are essential in bear country.

[prolesunited]

3. Do you think it's a good idea

to be chasing bears? Didn't a guy recently get eaten by one?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

5. Well it's a brown bear.

And if it gets used to eating garbage it will probably die an early death at the hands of some wildlife ranger. It's a tough year because it was so dry the berry crop was almost nonexistent. So the bears are pretty hungry, but he's got to eat somewhere else. but yeah, even though it's a brown and I was chasing it off with a gun in my hand, yeah I was scared going out there.

[Solly Mack]

6. When I lived in Colorado, that was a daily morning ritual for me

...during the winter....But I just made loud noises to shoo the bear away.

[Ridley Park 704]

7. Maybe it was a cub from Chicago

They got beat by the (gag) Marlins and Steve Bartcop, and don't hang around Riglee Field until next April.

[grasswire]

10. David Letterman...

....chased a bear out of his house by having a neighbor kid set off some firecrackers.

[JackSwift]

8. That was no bear, that was my wife!

Bada Bum!


But seriously, Brown bears are pretty mellow. They are smart enough to know that they should poke the humans.

[HEyHEY]

9. Up these parts we've decided...fuck it.

The bastards will get in to your trash or someone elses...I'm just tired of them shit on the front lawn!

[LiberalSailor]

11. From LA

This is such a foreign idea since i live in the city.
I know around here the use a thing called seal control to scare ocean wildlife away, its basiclly a bigger waterproof m80. Well thats why i wanna travel to see some real wildlife/americana.

[Kat 333]

12. The bears are coming down from the mountains

here also. They have been for the last couple of weeks. There are a LOT of apple trees in front and right behind the house so they don't get into the garbage. Black bears - and it's cool but makes me a little nervous. They come at night and leave by daybreak.

[Kolesar]

13. Habituated bears are Dangerous!

Don't let the bear get used to raiding your trash cans. If it begins to associate humans with food, it will turn into a "problem bear". It could get more ambitious; you may have trouble driving it away if it is used to "raiding" your garbage cans. My best recommendation would be to put the garbage cans in the garage or somewhere that the critter cannot easily peruse them. Wrap the very smelly food scraps in plastic, so that the odors don't waft for miles (that does happen).

I recommend the book "Bear Attacks" by Steven Herrero.

[imax2268]

14. Did he have a bald head...?

(I forget the name of the John Candy movie!)