Originally published at: Watch: An Amazon driver is too busy to run away from the bear greeting him at the gate | Boing Boing
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Honestly, with the amount of crap delivery drivers have to deal with from humans, that may have been the most chill encounter on his route that day.
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Did the homeowner order the bare necessities?
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That’s BSL* for “leave me alone or Jeff will mess you up good”.
* Bear Sign Language
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Or it’s how it knew the song was over?
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maybe it was his coffee buddy?
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I see this bear and the giant gate and I’m thinking "A bear as a pet in California? Interesting. But then the bear turned out to be wild, so I next assumed the giant gate is to keep in the pet tigers and lions.
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Wojtek?
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Yuparooni
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Amazon might chastise the driver for exposing them to extra liability of a possible bear attack, or they might thank him for delivering packages no matter what, but under no circumstances will they pay him a fair wage
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Poor bear was just waiting for his honey delivery.
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“Neither rain, nor snow, nor need to urinate, nor looming predator, shall keep these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
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He was exercising his right to bear his arms in the air to show he wasn’t intimidated by bear arms.
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As a Canadian I can confirm 100% this is the way to deal with generally-scaredy black bears.
If it were a polar or grizzly on the other hand, he’d have been lunch.
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One very chill guy!
This guy remembered the advice you often read about when confronted by wild animals: “Make yourself appear larger than you really are…”
The bear: "Oh boy! Lunch! Oh No!!! He’s one of those humans with those long skinny arms! I’m outta here!!
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“Hey! You let my bear out of my yard. Now I’m going to have to go catch her!” (Hopefully she’s micro-chipped.)
Anyway, drivers just don’t listen to instructions, do they? We had a fair amount of snow this weekend. We knew we were going to have to shovel, but oddly enough did not leap from our bed Sunday morning to clear the driveway. A little after noon, I got a delivery update from Amazon with a “How do I access the property?” message. I realized the driver didn’t feel comfortable walking through that frozen crap all over our drive; fair enough. I texted back to “Leave package by mailbox, I will be pick it up in a few minutes. Sorry about the snow!” which apparently means “Acknowledge reading of message, than drive away after hitting the ‘undeliverable’ button.” I guess if there had been a bear, my driver would have hurled the package at Yogi and left.
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…the right to bare arms? 
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