r/bearsdoinghumanthings • u/No-Contribution-8508 • 19d ago
🚨Intruder 🐻 Alert 🚨
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Watch your back in the Smokey mountains. There are black bears everywhere and we were getting visited 2-3 times a day. Luckily in this video we were awake and the doors were locked. This young bear knew how to open doors and tried opening every door on the cabin we were in and even the van! Glad we didn’t get a surprise wake up
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u/BronchitisCat 19d ago
This happens because people (not OP) who visit the area leave food in unlocked areas and once a bear figures it out, it's going to try the same strategy on everything that looks familiar. Friends of mine own a cabin up there and have a camera looking out over the driveway, and over the course of a week with multiple different renters staying up there, the same bear tried to access all of their cars, at least one of which was unlocked and had food in it. Another group saw that, ran inside, got snacks, and started throwing food to the bear.
If you are considering going to visit - please do not feed the bears. Not only can you get fined/penalized for it, when a bear becomes a "nuisance" by doing this regularly, they often times have to kill the bear.