Bear chases joggers on Alberta trail: 'Our escape was not guaranteed'

Tried to join a couple of joggers today for a bit of exercise and they got all weird on me.

The Bear...

He wasn't going to tolerate anymore homophobic slurs.

Another good case for investing in a can of bear spray and a belt holster to carry it in.

I don't blame the joggers for being terrified. A black bear acting like that is just a impulse and a few seconds away from knocking down one of them and starting to chew.

Look this guy I saw this past weekend?

We had one in our front yard last Saturday night. He went up the steps to the front door of a neighbour then Yogi decided to get out of Dodge before the cops got there.

He looks well fed.

At the local bear buffet, aka the dump, the fellow who separates the the recyclables(private initiative) isn't the least bit intimidated by the bears and they aren't bothered by him in the least. When we were there on the weekend there had to be at least 10 of them - sows, cubs and yearlings foraging, and he was sitting on the blade of the cat while they wandered around around him. Lots of different shades from an almost golden brown to black and a a couple had white patches on their chest.

You always see two or three around our farm in the south. Sloughs are kept stocked by my neighbours and myself, there are apple(crab and regular eating) and plum trees that have gone wild, and there are a shitload of chokecherry, saskatoon, wild strawberries, cranberry and currant bushes. Add to that the place has lots of morels.....which I hate but others seem to love for unbeknownst reason

He wanted to invite them to a picnic.

Yeah, all the cute "teddy bear" stuff.

But the fact of the matter is that when a black bear takes it into mind that you're food, it's a top predator.

A black bear not much bigger than a St. Bernard can easily kill and unarmed man, and it has happened many times. And I'm not talking a mother protecting cubs, I'm talking about unprovoked attacks.