Friday afternoon, a bear paid a visit to my brother's home, about a mile from my home. The bear was having lunch, which consisted of my brother's left-over garbage from his garbage baskets. The cops came, and threw rocks at the bear until the bear left through his backyard and into the woods.

My reaction to that was, how did that help? Won't it wander back to a home and possibly be a threat to someone else?

Sunday, the local paper reported that a bear was found just a couple blocks from where I grew up. Reportedly, hundreds of kids began looking for the bear and chasing it with the police and other emergency services. The bear climbed up a tree to get away from the crowds. Finally the Department of Environmental Conservation came and shot the bear with a tranquilizer gun and packed it into a cylindrical metal container.

Here is a video from a bystander: