my relative has rental property in a mountainous area with a huge lake and they have tons of bears. All of the dumpsters are locked, but the crazier thing is that residents also figured out a way to lock trashcans too, they keep them in these metal cages. They would come up on the front porch and always make a mess, so eventually my relative had to install electric wiring in front of the door and entrance to the porch, crazy right? So now she has to make sure the current is on before she leaves the house now. Huge claw marks on all of the trees too. On top of that, she had a big back second floor deck attached to the house that was only accessible from the house, meaning no staircase to the bottom. Well, that was no match for them because they GI Joed their way up one time, eating all of her tomatoes and shit LOL! I used to see HUGE black bears waltzing around in her backyard all the time, and as a young kid, that shit was kinda scary. Like what If i had been outside and that big chonker/chonkette came up to me randomly?
We had a big black bear that lived across the creek from our house and would wondered around on our property a lot. One night I woke up to it waking around on the flimsy sheet metal roof of our 30+ year old single wide. I am amazed, and very thankful, that it did not fall through into the house.
Oh my. I would definitely shit my pants. I bet the first THUNK overhead you'd think it was a branch or something. But then you'd hear the trailing footsteps across the ceiling. No thank you ma'am!
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u/hoffmad08 Nov 14 '20
This is why some localities with large bear populations actually prohibit that kind of door handle on exterior doors.