Originally published at: Watch family try to ward off a bear that follows them on popular hiking trail | Boing Boing
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He wasn’t following you - It’s the only road in town.
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Yeah!
They yell at the bear “go home!”
But maybe the bear’s home is in same the direction that they’re walking in?
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He just went out for a loaf of bread.
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“Go home!”
“I am home!”
I like the kids eagerness to try out playing dead.
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Awww! Not saying I wouldn’t be freaking out, too, especially with little kids to protect, but if that really is a black bear they are generally gentle, berry-eating giants. A friend used to forage huckleberries in Montana and had great stories of spending a whole day on a log with a black bear about 10 ft away. He said he’d pick his berries into a bucket, then move 5 feet down the log, and the bear would pick the berries right into it’s mouth, wait ‘til he moved, then move 5 feet down and sit on the log, always staying the same distance apart. 
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I am bit surprised that it didn’t run when they yelled at it - usually that’s enough to make a black bear move on. Seems like the trail is the best way to get wherever that bear was going.
“Our son is named Barry!”
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Well, that’s on you, then. Words matter, pal!
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