“Tag, you’re it.”
I would point out that Revelstoke and Coquitlam are at least 500 kilometers apart. It seems very unlikely that a bear could have walked that far in a mere three days.
Which leads to the obvious conclusion–the bears in British Columbia are not only invading liquor stores, and drunkenly harassing women, they’re apparently driving–and almost certainly driving while under the influence of alcohol!
Drunken Bears: The New Menace to Canadian Roads and Highways!
A couple of weeks ago, we were passing out Chromebooks to students in the front of our school, when a bear wandered across the playground. We saw it on our campus; it stood on its hind legs looking over a 4’ tall chain-link fence at the cars driving up. But it never came within a hundred yards of the car line, so staff shrugged and kept passing out the Chromebooks.
That’s the most iconic image possible of our city’s schools in 2020.
A paw goes up, a car is there.
Oh, won’t somebody stop and help a bear?
Hitchin’ a ride, hitchin’ a ride
In SCal, housing developments have been encroaching on “wilderness areas” for years and years. Mountain lions are a frequent nuisance, even to the point of attacking joggers on trails passing through said wilderness areas. F&G spends a lot of time tranq-ing and tagging mountain lions, and coaxing them to find other places to prowl.
The bears show up occasionally. Mountain residents know to secure their trash, but as they come down to the foothills and the housing developments, the human dwelling places are like a resort to them. They find pet foods (plus the occasional pets) for snacking purposes, and the bears LOVE homes with swimming pools! During hot weather, they show up for quick dips and leisurely swims.
The homeowners are not happy.
I would think a pool used by a bear would need to be drained, thoroughly disinfected and then refilled.
~VOW
Does a bear shit in the pools? Of course he does!
So a bear walks into a Safeway…
… completely bypassing the Charmin’.
That looks like it might be a brown bear (grizzly)! In point of fact, black bears can have various colorations including brown, but true brown bears (Ursus arctos) are larger and tend to be more aggressive than black bears. It’s hard to tell from the video but it may have that distinctive hump on the shoulders that characterizes the grizzly. The reporter simply refers to them as “bears”, but there’s quite a difference between the two species.
It won’t end well for those Tahoe bears. When they get that familiar with grocery stores, Fish & Game may try to relocate them, but if history is any guide, they’ll find their way back, and will ultimately be euthanized.
This was around Kings Beach, CA, near Lake Tahoe. Grizzly bears have been extinct in California for nearly 100 years.
Thanks for the clarification. All I knew about grizzlies and California is that there is a great big-ass one on the state flag. But more precisely, it’s the California grizzly that is extinct, a distinct subspecies (U. a. californicus) of the North American brown bear Ursus arctos. There are, AFAICT, no known grizzlies of other types in California, although further north, BC contains about one-quarter of the entire North American population. Ignorance fought, thanks. We can conclude that our California Safeway customer was not a grizzly!
Bartender: We don’t get many bears in here.
Smokey: And at these prices, you won’t be getting many more!
How do you tell the difference between Black Bear scat and Grizzly scat? Black bear poo contains blueberries and smells like a compost heap. Grizzly poo contains small silver bells and smells like pepper spray…
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I’ve heard that joke before but it still tickles me. Definitely a good way to illustrate the difference between a black bear and a grizzly. 
We get mountain lions on campus quite often. So far never when classes were in session, but they show up every couple of months on the overnight security cam feeds. We make sure to tell everybody in the community because it discourages skaters from coming on campus and using the stairs as accessories.
On a trip to Yellowstone after my parents got married, ranger taught them how to reliably tell the difference between black bears and grizzly bears. He said you can climb a tree. If the bear climbs up after you, it’s a black bear. If it shakes you out of the tree, it’s a grizzly bear.
At which point the ranger also mentioned that there’s no need to outrun the bear; all you need to do is outrun your new spouse? AmIright?
There are a bunch of these on YouTube but this is my fave:
Can you lend me a Snickers?