Around here there are bears walking through the neighbourhood regularly. You do not leave food outside, you don’t put your trash outside until pickup day. You pick your fruit from the trees on time or expect a visit. Everyone knows to leave them alone. My kids have encountered bears walking home from school - they cross the road and carry on.
It was raining so we didn’t get out and pick our plum tree or grape vine early enough a couple of summers ago, so I now have a video of a black bear up in my grape trellis* feasting. He then climbed into the plum tree, snacked there, shat in my back yard and wandered off. The video is cool, but I’ll never make that mistake again.
*Humble brag, my trellis stayed up with a 400 lb bear sitting on it.
