Bear Scare: Search For Midnight Snack Prompts 911 Call

Video shows a bear breaking into a home in Truckee while two teen boys were inside. https://t.co/rudTpjreAv

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TRUCKEE, CA — Three was a crowd when an intruder recently tried to join a teenager and his friend for a midnight snack at a Tahoe-area home. The teenager called 911 early Saturday morning to report he and his friend were trying to hold their bedroom door closed while a bear was on the other side, repeatedly trying to open it.

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That’s according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, which sent Deputy Prero to investigate the report of a bear inside an occupied house.

Prero, by communicating with the homeowner about the layout of the home, deciphered that the bear entered through an unlocked garage door. The door then closed behind the bear, trapping it inside the home.

Apparently in search of a midnight snack, the bear rummaged through the refrigerator and even took a seat on the family’s couch, according to video shared by the homeowner. Ultimately, the bear decided it wanted to hang out with the two boys who were in a downstairs bedroom.

Having had some experience with an uptick in bear-related calls lately in the Tahoe area, Deputy Prero decided to give the bear an avenue of exit by opening the front door.

Her plan worked. The bear soon forgot about whatever snack the boys may have been eating, instead heading back outside to the great outdoors.

It lingered for a bit in the driveway until Prero deployed a bear round from her shotgun, effectively shooing the wild animal away from the property.

After what seemed to be an unbearable wait, “Hayes and Bobby happily burst out of the downstairs bedroom and were quick to hug Deputy Prero and ask for a photo,” the sheriff’s office said.

Man’s best defense against bears, the sheriff’s office said, is to lock all doors to their residence and cars. Never leave food inside cars — especially honey — because bears have a “very keen sense of smell and will find it, even behind locked car doors.”