# Could a grizzly bear smash through a brick wall?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 31, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-grizzly-bear-smash-through-a-brick-wall/443422 "2008-03-31T18:21:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-grizzly-bear-smash-through-a-brick-wall/443422/41 "2008-04-02T20:19:40Z")

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[QUOTE=Cervaise]  
What are human bears?  
[/QUOTE]

Fabulous.

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-grizzly-bear-smash-through-a-brick-wall/443422/42 "2008-04-02T20:21:10Z")

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The scariest are bipolar bears, when they’re off their meds.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-grizzly-bear-smash-through-a-brick-wall/443422/43 "2008-04-02T21:07:57Z")

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[QUOTE=Cervaise]  
What are human bears?  
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The last time a thread danced around that tree, most agreed that large, hairy, gay men call themselves bears. That explains **Great Dave** ’s reply, “Fabulous.”

Then there’s Stephen “Col-bear”, who’s in a category by himself. 😉

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-grizzly-bear-smash-through-a-brick-wall/443422/44 "2008-04-02T23:18:23Z")

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[QUOTE=gytalf2000]  
I figure one thing that might deter a grizzly would be the “unnaturalness” of the brick/masonry. The bear might be reluctant to attack a structure just because it looked substantially different from anything it was accustomed to encountering in the wild.  
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The brick wall probably looks enough like rock that it wouldn’t be an issue. I watched a bear that weighs roughly what I do toss rocks and logs aside effortlessly that I could barely move. Crashing into a brick wall? I doubt it. Dismembering it? Definitely.

[QUOTE=gytalf2000]  
Also – don’t bears sometimes tear cars apart to get to food?  
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Yep. And garbage cans. And ice chests. And…

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**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-grizzly-bear-smash-through-a-brick-wall/443422/45 "2008-04-03T01:22:40Z")

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[QUOTE=danceswithcats]  
The scariest are bipolar bears, when they’re off their meds.  
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A polar bear is, of course, a rectangular bear after undergoing a coordinate transform.

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