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Subscribe to RSSA large black bear entered a La Crescenta, Calif. garage early Wednesday morning and dined on Costco meatballs, then returned later that evening, television station KTLA reported.
Homeowner Joey Ball told the station that he heard noises around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning. When he opened his garage door, he found the bear sitting next to the refrigerator, eating the meatballs and tuna.
“He looked at me and I thought, ‘uh-oh!’ So I slammed the door and locked the dead bolt,” Ball told KTLA. “You could hear him eating, slapping his gums,” Ball added.
As a KTLA camera crew was at the home to report the story that night, the bear tried to get back into the garage. The station captured footage of the bear in Ball’s backyard. The station spotted the bear rummaging through trash cans in the same neighborhood a few hours later.
Neighbor Mark Edelstein told the station that his family doesn’t take their dog out for walks at night and for a while was not putting their trash cans out overnight.
City officials are warning residents against leaving food out in the open and urges anyone who spots the bear to contact the police, the Los Angeles Times reported.
La Crescenta is 15 miles north of Los Angeles.
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Costco meatballs? They should shoot that bear for having bad taste.
Better then Wall Mart meatballs.
Most bear charges are bluffs. Can't be 100% sure, of course. But almost all are bluffs. It would most likely have 'broken off the attack' anyway. And wouldn't be dead. But I recognize that's a tough call when a bear's charging you.
Oh, so... you like'a da meatballs, maybe they we're Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls...
Stop with the environment destruction and they won't eat your balls
Bears should be able to repatriate California after all thier homes where stolen. So MOVE OUT HUMANS!!
Did he use a remote or find the key under the mat? I solved many problems by having the doors closed at 3am.
The bears were there first so they can just deal with it. The humans lost their meatballs, the bears lost their homes.
The article clearly states that the bear was eating meatballs AND TUNA! Yet the author chose to refer to the bear as a "meatball eating" bear. This is a clear case of biased reporting, if you ask me.
Better meatballs than people or pets! LOL
Oh so cute! Come here meatball eating bear, here's some meatballs!
A little taste of what happens daily in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Get a bear box for your trashcans! It's the only thing that will keep them out of your trash once they've learned about the easy pickins in the city.
Nobody's touching my refridge!
I lived in North Bend, Wa for the last few years and saw many black bears while I was out running and bicycling on backwoods trails. Black bears are big and scary but they rarely attack people. I saw at least 20 black bears and 2 cougars in my time there. There is no reason to be afraid of these animals unless they're acting aggressive towards you.
Bearbondannza!
Yeah Yeah Yeah Soooooooooooooo What! I had one sitting in my dinning room! He came in through a patio door.He was sitting in the door way I came around the Corner and told him OUT! He left no problem!
People do not know how to get along with bears.They forget one thing,they built their houses in their territory! What the Hell do you think a Bear is going to do?
I have bears in my backyard all the time and we get along very nicely Thank You very much!
Oh and one more thing those cops in the video with their dumbass shot guns.THEY'RE IDIOTS,they don't even know how to handle an animal!Call me next time I can do a better job!
a bear can kill you in an small fraction of a second.
that said i hope this ones learns to return to the areas beyond the developments.
otherwise, thats what 300 win mags were designed and built for...no need for that is not necessary though.
its easy to "hate" humans for existing in this day and age, but, guess what ? we are here.
Well a 300 winmag is fine but I prefer to use a .375 holland and holland. Why? Because I already have one, thats why. But the 300 is a damn good round and when compared to the 375 they are almost the same in velosity and energy. The 375 just delivers a little more and on a black bear you wouldn't notice the difference as a dead bear is a dead bear. Good choice dave.
Guess what so are they?Oh and your bear can kill you in a small fraction of second story?Not Necessarily so,they won't not when you know what the Hell you're doing!
These people didn't.They had a bear in their yards in December they should of got the message, by now.The Stupid cops and their big shot guns should of got a hold of the DEP not go in there and try to kill it, The DEP would of, and guess what the word is?
RELOCATED IT.That's what they do where I live! No Problem!
oh i agree the 375 h&h is w wonderful design. one day i hope to have a 338 sako tr42 lapua....but there always seeem to be more priorities.
i hope you pass that 375 h&h down to a family member.
gloria fabiaschi:
You think you can live with them because YOU know how to handle them. WOW maybe you should come up here like that guy and his girl friend did. They lived with the bears for a few years then a bear killed BOTH of them! The camera was running the whole time it is on tape LADY.. (google it) Bears are wild animals and they are unpredictable. But come up here and play with OUR BEARS, lol THEY NEED A SNACK!
Hey AKRandy gotta problem? Did I say I lived with Bears or did I say they come in back yard all the time?I said I know how to get along with them.Not up close and personal EITHER!You learn rules when you live in bear country,and guess what? Nobody gets killed.You don't think I don't know that they're unpredicatable?Well guess again! I do, and I know when to back off! The bear that came in my dining room happen to come in not wanting food, but wanting someone to talk to it.I knew when to back off there to.This bear was a 150lb male cub,raised by humans.When he got to big these IDIOTS dumped him.He happened to have wondered in my back yard!I didn't make friends with him, I told him to Get OUT!So he did.He was still young enough to get acclimated to the wild, but yet he still knew people.I didn't become friendly with it,because I knew I did it would mean trouble.It wasn't fair to the bear, he belonged out in the wild.I saw him a few more times after that, and I haven't seen him since.
My bone of contention is the way the cops reacted,with guns.The DEP should of been brought into this case and the animal relocated.In the video he was by a garbage can,he saw somebody and ran,which means he wasn't use to humans.
So don't give me the Big Bad Bear is gonna get ya routine cause it doesn't fly with me!You understand or do I have to explain all over again?
Those people living with those bears were not to bright!
Oh and Dave those guns your babbling about?Lock them Up,they're dangerous.Especially with you handling them!
So LOL I live in the state with the biggest bears in the world!
What state are you in CA????? Here is somthing for you to read:
Night Of The Grizzly chronicles the last remaining
moments of Tim Treadwell's and Amie Huguenard's lives, the discovery
and investigation revolving around their deaths and what led up to their
tragic end. An attempt will also be made to theorize what actually took
place in camp that stormy night back in 2003 by piecing together bits
and pieces of a six-minute audio recording left behind.
As
I researched this incident, I quickly realized that Tim and I had quite
a bit in common and I totally understood his passion. The grizzly bear
symbolizes wilderness and a simpler time. There are no highways or
skyscrapers in the world of the bear---- but there are boundaries.
However, had we met, Tim and I would have no doubt had
some heated discussions about how I thought he was doing more harm than
good with his behavior in Alaska. Habituating bears to the presence of
man only increases the chance that harm will someday come to the bear,
or another "man."
Gloria: here is a link to the article I qouted from:
http://www.yellowstone-bearman.com/copyright.html
Thanks AKRandy,I just glimpsed over the article, cause it's late but I will get back to it tomorrow.
Sorry for being such a hardass! I live in Conn.
No worries, up here we give bears a lot of respect! And we have learned a of things not to do, some of was learned the hard way. My friend receive 2000 stitches thanks to a bear, he did not blame the bear.
Tim Treadwell's story is a big tragedy. Please read about him and think about it.
Here if you leave your trash out where a bear can get it you get a ticket. A lot of people use bear proof garbage cans. While fishing on a river keep the fish in the water, NEVER clean fish where you are fishing... These are rules (in some places laws) to protect BEARS and MAN. We can live together if we stay apart LOL if you know what I mean.
Reminds me of last week's "Signs of Spring in Lake Wobegon," which included the bear waking up that spent the winter under the porch and now needs a ride out to the forest. A stop at auto mechanic to get the car's bear-ings fixed and a shampoo for the bear at the car wash. Nothing about feeding the bear that I recall.
I do agree on 1 thing, if you build it they will come. Epecially if you build it on "their" territory! So keep building it and they will come.
gloria fabiaschi
please dont mis-read me. i love wild animals. but i also realise their potentiall for carnage gone wrong.
thats why i hope this bear does get relocated as i alluded to in my original post. but when it comes to it, as musc as it is in vogue to hate humans for their very existence by the very followers of darwinism in particular,
i find it hypocritical to deny the humans their place in existance