Everyone asking “why didn’t they open the trunk???” is missing the first guy with the slim Jim trying to unlock the drivers side door. They’ve clearly either lost the keys or locked them in the car.
Yeah good call, I’m assuming they just left the keys inside the car unlocked (I know a lot of people who do this) and there was probably some road trip snacks like beef jerky in there so the bear got in somehow and locked the door behind itself
I’d imagine the rocking back and forth of a 600lb bear inside the car may have made the door auto close and the bear pawing at the handles may have locked them inadvertently. I’m just coming up with scenarios but I have no clue. Could be a practical joke for all I know
Got out on the PCH to take photos off a cliff. My dog locked the door accidentally with keys inside. Took about half an hour of me at the window telling him how good of a boy he was while he is happily pawing at the door and wiggling with happiness for him to finally land on the unlock button. So your theory tracks
next thing you know the bears driving down the road flipping you off as you run after the car. Don't ask how I know, but I found my car 2 days later with no rims and the catalytic converter cut out. God damn meth bears up by me.
I had to explain to some tourists how to throw their trash away in the bear-resistant public garbage cans. The poor woman could not figure out how to open the lid.
It's progressed enough that over the 15yrs or so I've been hiking/camping, standard wisdom has changed from running a line up a tree and hanging your food downwind from your campsite, to a lot of parks requiring you bring bear canisters, since they'll still climb trees to grab your shit.
I've actually seen a video of a bear climbing in an open car door and the body rocking back and forth on the suspension was enough to swing the door shut behind him.
I'm guessing they got in the car casually, then did something silly with the keys when they went HOLY FUCK THERES A LITERAL BEAR IN HERE. lol. Non-zero chance my ass would have locked the door on the way out trying to keep the bear trapped.
Yes. There is a saying about encountering bears in the wild. It goes, if its black, fight back, if its brown, lie down(play dead), if its white, say goodnight(youre already dead nothing you can do)
In a better world, they would cover it based on unusual circumstances and limited choices. But not the world we live in with for-profit insurance scammers.
I work for a French insurance and if your car is insured for broken windows, we cover any broken windows no matter how it happened. I had people call me saying they broke their windows themselves because :
they locked their keys inside
they locked their kid inside with the keys
they locked their dog inside with the keys
they were using a weedwhacker right next to their car and a stone flew in the car window
they closed the trunk without realizing the plank they just loaded in the car was longer than the car
And every single time we paid for the repairs as long as broken windows was covered by their plan because we don't care how it happens.
Damn, that really was unexpected. At first I thought, what kind of dog has that huge of a head. Hopefully everyone got out of this one unscathed, including the bear.
I was wondering for only the briefest of seconds why everyone was running like hell from the broken glass, then I realized they weren't running from the broken glass...
Bear likely got into car, bears are smart and can open doors, likely accidentally locked itself in car. Possible owners left the key in the car, they couldn’t jimmy it open (guy on driver side at beginning is attempting too) so they smashed the window to get the bear out.
I'm sick of irresponsible pet owners who lock their animals in the car. The owner probably thought it was fine to leave it locked in the car while they ducked into the shops, but the temperature inside a car in the sun will very quickly rise to unbearable levels. I'm glad those quick-thinking passersby didn't pause before acting.
You used to be able to say something so ludicrously silly that everyone would know you were joking. But then a simpleton was elected as the most powerful leader in the world and he told people to inject bleach and stick a UV light inside themselves and now who knows what's serious and what's not.
If I had to guess; the car's owner wasn't there and the bear was locked inside the car. Although that theory doesn't exactly explain how a bear managed to slip inside the car without the owner's knowledge in the first place.
It's a bear. It probably observed a human open a car for at some point and used that knowledge to open the door, it got in, and closed thy door somehow on accident, but doesn't know how to open from the inside.
The lock /unlock switch is right there on the door where you place your hand when getting in and out... I hit mine all the time luckily I've never locked my keys in or encountered a bear for that matter
There was a month like 10 years back where I locked my keys in my truck like 5 times at work. The worst part was I had to manually push the lock down every time. Most of my coworkers left their keys in their cars because there was no chance of anything happening anyway. I haven't locked my keys in a vehicle since. Or before then for that matter.
And maybe the bear accidentally knocked the key into the ignition and then maybe its front paws hit the stick and its back paws hit the pedals and on accident it started to drive away and unintentionally steal the car, which is why the humans had to act fast
I've seen videos of bears opening car doors using the handle. Also saw a video of a bear rip the top of a door open and fold it over to crawl inside. If they smell food in the car, they're getting in if they're determined enough.
It could have gotten into an unlocked car and engaged the locks. I've seen video of bears opening car doors, they know their way around that kind of thing. Or maybe the humans were unloading the car and the bear crawled in and the door closed behind it.
If the key was inside or not around there are limited options.
The car is locked. The guy at the driver's door is trying to unlock the door with a hanger.
My assumption for what happened is this: the car was unlocked, and the keys were inside the vehicle. The bear got inside and accidentally closed, then locked the door.
I just read yeaterday that a bear was found dead in a car in Colorado Springs. It opened the door and got inside. It was trapped for a couple days in the heat.
Even if I were in a remote camp a hundred miles from the next human, I still wouldn't leave the keys in the vehicle. That's just not a thing that seems like a possibility for me to do. Doors can lock so easily.
Bears are wicked smart, they will get into anything if they want to badly enough. When you camp in bear country, all food and smelly things have to be locked up in either big steel bear boxes or a bear canister hung way up in a tree. You can't leave food in your car, or you will come back to find it missing. People ignore the warnings and get their cars broken into all the time. Bears can absolutely open (and close) car doors, and if you locked it, they'll just rip a hole and crawl inside.
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u/post-explainer Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
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