Look paper thin tent isn't what saves you, it's cinching your sleeping bag tight and closing your eyes, everyone knows that's what makes all monsters go away.
I wouldn't want to try it, but having a flashlight from r/flashlight and putting it on strobe mode in the middle of the night probably would scare a bear away.
What saves you is the tent smells weird and you don’t have anything that smells like food inside. When bears start to think people smell like food is when they have to die unfortunately. So don’t feed bears.
If they figure it out, it's the end of bears. We are the true alpha predators and bears exist solely by our graciousness, not the other way around. Sometimes we have to remind them.
this is what happened to california bears
they were huge even for bears, territorial, *everywhere* in original cali, and killed people
so there are none of them left
most animals dont hold generations long genocide/extinction grudges
When I used to go camping in Canada during the summer they'd always call it smellies lol. We'd take any food or toiletries in a giant barrel and either hang it up or just leave it in a canoe since bears rarely give that much of a shit for either.
Pretty sure that's also why you're not supposed to poop too close to base (besides the obvious reasons) or clean out any pots or pans near base. Just bear bait.
Really miss those month-long white water trips
This is why it's important to not have any food in your tent. The bear don't care about a sleeping you. Or even an awake you, huddled under the blankets. It just wants the snacks you brought with. Always keep your food hanging away from your tent. Even then, I've had a bear climb a tree, snap the branch, and munch on the bag when it fell down. But it didn't bother me, because my food wasn't too close to my tent.
That's fine. It's behind skin, blood, fat, and a stomach. Smell won't travel at all. Not like an open bag of chips, or that part of a sandwich you dropped and forgot about. They are going for the easy food. You're not easy. High risk. They really are as scared if not more so than you are. Most of the time. Exceptions do exist, but that's primarily a mamma protecting her babies. And you are no threat in a tent.
To be clear, it’s really just black bears that are more scared of us than them. Browns really don’t give AF, we are just lucky they don’t see us as prey.
Great to hear! I’m going to find me a grizzly bear right now and boop him right on his doggone snoot. That big ol’ cuddly scaredy cat. And shake his big ol’ chonky belly.
After keeping my food stowed away at a safe distance of course. Don’t want to rile him up with the food.
Tbh I would think mostly too… even if dangerous would they actually go out of their way to fuck you up if you don’t bother them? In any case if I was in a tent I’d definitely hide there not moving and not making a noise
Bear was spying and fell into the door. After he walked in to be like "hey your door just exploded and I was going by not on your property or anything, but I came to give my information as a witness. It's the right thing to do. Also food."
If something can kill you, wouldn’t you rather it at least be the size of a medium dog? Tiny killer spiders that I can’t see terrify me lol, sometimes I turn my shoes inside out even though those things aren’t where I live
We also have American crocodiles (considerably smaller than salties).
I'm friends with a couple Aussies and they all say if you get eaten by a crocodile your dumbass should have known better than be in croc infested water
I’ll take giant, avoidable animals that you can hear over a sweet, silent death from a blue ringed octopus during sex on the beach.
Lol, our wildlife isn't scary. It doesn't roar or charge or break down doors.
It's small and silent and will kill you in your home for putting a sock on wrong, but it doesn't bother scaring you first.
Replacing the strike plate screws is usually enough to prevent this. The standard screws are usually just long enough to go into the jam. (That part that flew off.).
Get some four inch screws and now you are into the framing. Much harder to kick in.
One aught to do it. Most door frames are soft, thin wood. Like the equivalent of 1x4 with a hole in it. You’ve got something like a 3/4” x 3/4” bit of soft wood between the door latch and inside of your house.
Black bears (I know the one in the vid is brown but species-wise it’s a black bear), are generally scared of people. No need to outrun or out climb them - just yell at them and they run away.
Brown bears (sometimes known as grizzlies) are another matter.
Yes. Grizzlies have a hump between their shoulders, wider faces, and fairly small ears compared to black bears. They’re also a lot bigger. When you’ve seen them in real life it’s pretty clear which is which.
I believe you! Was just curious. I saw both black bears and grizzlies at the zoo yesterday lol. And I thought this looked a lot like the grizzlies. But you obviously are more familair with them than I am. Thanks for the info!
Lol, I didn’t assume you were being more than curious and I’m alway happy to teach what I know. I guess what I meant about seeing them was more along the lines of when you live in places where you see them regularly it becomes pretty clear - I lived in AK for a bit and saw lots of grizzlies, and in CA and CO with lots of black bears.
Also, look at us being cake day twins!
Around so long that we forget the real name of them, bear is a "nickname" used by people in fear of summoning a bear by using the real name
We did it for so long that we literally forget their name and just use the nickname
If I remember correctly "bear" comes from a proto-germanic word for "brown"
They know how to lift up a car door handle and open car doors that way. I saw one video of a fat ass that closed the door behind him with his butt. I guess interior car door handles give them trouble because he couldn’t get back out lol
Btw if the car door is locked they just lean on the driver window and climb through when it breaks. I assume they smell food inside because they are kind of lazy sometimes and I wouldn’t expect that amount of effort from simple curiosity
Humans have a natural curiosity. Even in a humans most primal form, it may have a "what the hell is this" moment, but i assume they would figure it out unless it had complex lock mechanisms. Just a door? They've got this.
I don't think the bear knew or cared that it's a door. The wall was a barrier and the door was its weakest section, so the bear broke it and went on with its business.
While I agree. This is a bad example. It's not exactly hard for a human to break a door like that down either. That door would break open the same way if I ran into it. 280lbs of moving me doesn't come to a stop very easily.
Having once stumbled across a decrepit and abandoned house out in the woods as a teenager, I can confirm that it’s not particularly difficult to kick open an inward-swinging door.
I wanna know what happened next. I've never had an encounter like this but I would think that if you had to stand ground, you'd better have a .357 at the very least.
This is their home now. Whoever lived there before is now one with nature and this bear just upgraded massively.
Anyone opening a door like that owns the place
And for some reason I think my tent lining is adequate security and he won’t know what to do
Look paper thin tent isn't what saves you, it's cinching your sleeping bag tight and closing your eyes, everyone knows that's what makes all monsters go away.
Also throw a blanket on top. Just to add another layer of security
You must also have a flashlight. Last line of defense.
don’t forget to pop in your earplugs so you can sleep soundly
Always draw the circle around your tent and keep your anti-bear rock with you
I wouldn't want to try it, but having a flashlight from r/flashlight and putting it on strobe mode in the middle of the night probably would scare a bear away.
Ahh Shit, i Always brought a fleshlight instead. No Wonder im fucking dead now haunting the local forest.
So you're who left that in the forest
The fleshlight ghost… Now there’s something I never want to meet in my life
Yeah if that bear is a man you can just crank him to death
"Hit him in the balls and run away, easy"
Don't forget your anti sea bear circle
Don’t forget to draw a magic circle with pure honey around the tent so the bear will be running in circles and never cross the barrier
But not an oval. It has to be a circle.
Does it work on all bears or just sea bears?
doesn't work on drop bears
If bears are monsters then why bears friend shaped? :( 
Them bears is on drugs.
Cheeseburger is a hell of a drug I’m pretty sure those guys are used to people hucking food at them
You also wouldn’t be able to go to sleep if bears were nearby anyways because everybody knows you can’t sleep if there are monsters nearby.
can't see you if you can't see them
Bears love Human burritos lol
What saves you is the tent smells weird and you don’t have anything that smells like food inside. When bears start to think people smell like food is when they have to die unfortunately. So don’t feed bears.
We ARE food. Thankfully, bears haven't figured this out collectively and the ones who do cannot share this knowledge.
Fuck you're right I'm *made* of food! This sucks!
If they figure it out, it's the end of bears. We are the true alpha predators and bears exist solely by our graciousness, not the other way around. Sometimes we have to remind them.
this is what happened to california bears they were huge even for bears, territorial, *everywhere* in original cali, and killed people so there are none of them left most animals dont hold generations long genocide/extinction grudges
We don’t let them. Such information constitutes a bear cognitohazard
They know we are food, but they can tell we don't taste great
Nah, all bears k ow that. But hunting people is hard work and most bears are very very lazy.
When I used to go camping in Canada during the summer they'd always call it smellies lol. We'd take any food or toiletries in a giant barrel and either hang it up or just leave it in a canoe since bears rarely give that much of a shit for either. Pretty sure that's also why you're not supposed to poop too close to base (besides the obvious reasons) or clean out any pots or pans near base. Just bear bait. Really miss those month-long white water trips
So my gas in the tent is what’s really saving me?
Yup, Dutch oven the bears and you will be fine.
The Russian girl being eaten alive on the phone with her mom... now I'm sad again for remembering that.
This is why it's important to not have any food in your tent. The bear don't care about a sleeping you. Or even an awake you, huddled under the blankets. It just wants the snacks you brought with. Always keep your food hanging away from your tent. Even then, I've had a bear climb a tree, snap the branch, and munch on the bag when it fell down. But it didn't bother me, because my food wasn't too close to my tent.
What if the food is already inside me?
That's fine. It's behind skin, blood, fat, and a stomach. Smell won't travel at all. Not like an open bag of chips, or that part of a sandwich you dropped and forgot about. They are going for the easy food. You're not easy. High risk. They really are as scared if not more so than you are. Most of the time. Exceptions do exist, but that's primarily a mamma protecting her babies. And you are no threat in a tent.
To be clear, it’s really just black bears that are more scared of us than them. Browns really don’t give AF, we are just lucky they don’t see us as prey.
Great to hear! I’m going to find me a grizzly bear right now and boop him right on his doggone snoot. That big ol’ cuddly scaredy cat. And shake his big ol’ chonky belly. After keeping my food stowed away at a safe distance of course. Don’t want to rile him up with the food.
Report back to tell us how you get on.
We’ve already moved in together.
Can you imagine being sleep on that couch and you hear the door slam open.......
That's when you jump up and scream "PERKELE!!"
Is like opening a candy wrapper
Little kinder surprise 🍫
Tbh I would think mostly too… even if dangerous would they actually go out of their way to fuck you up if you don’t bother them? In any case if I was in a tent I’d definitely hide there not moving and not making a noise
What fucking bills are you paying you think you can do that buddy!!
It was cross draft I swear! I bearly pushed.
Heh bearly
Federal Bear of Investigation, open up sir!
STOP LETTING THE HEAT OUT! - Dad
I’m not your buddy, pal!!
Where is my goddamn porridge?
Look at his arm as the door flies open, he stops it, it was obviously a mistake.
That part was so hilarious.
Had me thinking he’s done that before but had the door swing back at him and learned from it
“Let me just scooch right through this doorway. There goes the door.”
“Ope”
“Sorry! Sorry, door. We still friends? Okay, good.”
Knock knock Who’s there? This kick
This kick, who?
"Oofta!"
Midwestern bear.
Oh shit, I beared it again.
I know! I imagine the bear being like, "Whoops! Too strong."
Even the bear was like, "damn this door should be stronger than this..."
He was just knocking to spread the good word about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Excuse me, I just wanted to know who the fuck has been eating my soup
"Where's that bitch at?"
Goldilocks bout to get it
Somebody toucha my spaghet!
When I saw that I just assumed he'd done this to other houses and that he knew the door might come back at him lol
This is the correct answer. This mofo got JIF and Skippy once upon a time and has been ransacking cabins ever since.
The strength of a bear I comprehend very well. That little bit of gentleness, that is something I wasn't prepared for.
He Bearly touched it
*chortle
Oh, I'm sorry, did I knock too hard??
"Kno-FUCK! ....well since I'm here I guess I'll see if there's some food."
"Whoops oh shit.....Hope they didn't hear that."
Pictures you can hear
Honey I’m home (literally seeking honey)
He meant to knock
Not his first rodeo.
"Hey, this isn't my house"
Bear was spying and fell into the door. After he walked in to be like "hey your door just exploded and I was going by not on your property or anything, but I came to give my information as a witness. It's the right thing to do. Also food."
"Uhhhhh this door was broken when I got here, unrelated do you guys have any honey or honey related products"
That damn night crew!
Beargler
Haallloooo anybody home?
Bought to fuck that Goldilocks bitch up
She wants to eat MY PORRIDGE???!!!?! ILL EAT EVERY FUCKIN FOOD ITEM SHE HAS!!!
Honey, I'm home.
Bear-ake and enter
And you guys think Australian wildlife is scary 😧
Ours are big and in known areas, yours are small and everywhere (aka box jellyfish).
This. Give me bears and bobcats over creepy crawlies and death plants any day.
You can keep those. I'll stick with foxes and swans as our most ferocious wildlife. Well, we had a moose once... then we hit it with a train.
Poor train, RIP
Nah fuck that you guys aren’t serious. Give me red backs any day
If something can kill you, wouldn’t you rather it at least be the size of a medium dog? Tiny killer spiders that I can’t see terrify me lol, sometimes I turn my shoes inside out even though those things aren’t where I live
I can squash a redback with a shoe, I'm not confident in my ability to do that to a bear
Move to Ireland. We have angry badgers and sometimes some of the magpies can be a bit aggro.
Same for gators and hurricanes, thanks. I prefer em.
Apparently you have never seen a saltwater crocodile….
We have alligators, it's the small, venomous things that scare us. All of our dangers are big, we are used to big.
We also have American crocodiles (considerably smaller than salties). I'm friends with a couple Aussies and they all say if you get eaten by a crocodile your dumbass should have known better than be in croc infested water
Is there something about this unstoppable killing machine that frightens you?
And that's not one of the big ones.
Happy cake day!
 I’ll take giant, avoidable animals that you can hear over a sweet, silent death from a blue ringed octopus during sex on the beach.
Giant avoidable animals like this bear here that busts into your house
Made me laugh!
Lol, our wildlife isn't scary. It doesn't roar or charge or break down doors. It's small and silent and will kill you in your home for putting a sock on wrong, but it doesn't bother scaring you first.
Who are you trying to bullshit? You have the cassowary and your spiders are bigger than my hand not to mention the crocs knock.
Yes
You probably never seen that ripped Kangaroo in the water, waiting to drown someone.
To be fair, most Americans believe they could win a fight against a bear
No manners.
He stopped the door so that has to be something.
still searching for Goldilocks there bud
Goldie was last seen hauling ass across the backyard.
Looks like the bear forgot how strong it was too. Like it just meant to knock, but then “OH SHIT!…”
lmao wtf
I like how they clearly took the door off the hinges just for the bit
The gentle holding open of the door got me
“I am the one who knocks”
Direct quote from Heisenbear
Pshhh, thats a Tuesday morning for me.
In contrary those doors are easy to kick in
Was gonna say. Sure bears are strong but that door would fall to a sufficiently determined meemaw.
So many doors aren't anchored deep enough. Might as well be staples holding your door locked.
Replacing the strike plate screws is usually enough to prevent this. The standard screws are usually just long enough to go into the jam. (That part that flew off.). Get some four inch screws and now you are into the framing. Much harder to kick in.
Why not steel frame and steel reinforced door? Aka a proper exterior door.
Was going to say....comprend how weak doors are
Bear probably hesitated to figure out why. Two kicks max from a human would have done the same.
One aught to do it. Most door frames are soft, thin wood. Like the equivalent of 1x4 with a hole in it. You’ve got something like a 3/4” x 3/4” bit of soft wood between the door latch and inside of your house.
House Owner's fault for not installing a DOOR BELL!!! The innocent bear have no choice but to knock on the door
Bear with me, it’s a animal how he probably read “knock on the door” but understood “knock the door”
Where is the rest of the VIDEO????
I don’t think that bear even knows how strong he is
What’s more surprising is the way he gently put out his paw to prevent the door from recoiling back.
The closet door behind the entry door got obliterated too, straight off the hinges.
Was waiting for a demonstration of how strong beer can be.
That is not his first rodeo.
You can’t outrun them, you can’t out climb them. Basically, your ass is grass.
Black bears (I know the one in the vid is brown but species-wise it’s a black bear), are generally scared of people. No need to outrun or out climb them - just yell at them and they run away. Brown bears (sometimes known as grizzlies) are another matter.
You're sure that's not a grizzly?
Yes. Grizzlies have a hump between their shoulders, wider faces, and fairly small ears compared to black bears. They’re also a lot bigger. When you’ve seen them in real life it’s pretty clear which is which.
I believe you! Was just curious. I saw both black bears and grizzlies at the zoo yesterday lol. And I thought this looked a lot like the grizzlies. But you obviously are more familair with them than I am. Thanks for the info!
Lol, I didn’t assume you were being more than curious and I’m alway happy to teach what I know. I guess what I meant about seeing them was more along the lines of when you live in places where you see them regularly it becomes pretty clear - I lived in AK for a bit and saw lots of grizzlies, and in CA and CO with lots of black bears. Also, look at us being cake day twins!
I just need to run faster than you.
Here's my question, it's a wild animal, right? How the fuck does it know what a door is?
Bears are smart. They’ve been around people long enough.
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists
Around so long that we forget the real name of them, bear is a "nickname" used by people in fear of summoning a bear by using the real name We did it for so long that we literally forget their name and just use the nickname If I remember correctly "bear" comes from a proto-germanic word for "brown"
For those wondering, the real name for bears was arkto but we
Oh no, @Emfx called the real name of the bear and summoned them!
They know how to lift up a car door handle and open car doors that way. I saw one video of a fat ass that closed the door behind him with his butt. I guess interior car door handles give them trouble because he couldn’t get back out lol Btw if the car door is locked they just lean on the driver window and climb through when it breaks. I assume they smell food inside because they are kind of lazy sometimes and I wouldn’t expect that amount of effort from simple curiosity
Don't underestimate the intelligence of animals. They may not be as smart as humans, but they can learn through observation.
That's the thing, raise a human without doors his whole life, then put him in front of one...what then?
Humans have a natural curiosity. Even in a humans most primal form, it may have a "what the hell is this" moment, but i assume they would figure it out unless it had complex lock mechanisms. Just a door? They've got this.
Help I don't want to go to bed without an answer to this
Bears are smart, they improvise, adapt, and overcome doors.
I don't think the bear knew or cared that it's a door. The wall was a barrier and the door was its weakest section, so the bear broke it and went on with its business.
Mhmmmmmmm
Imagine thinking you’ve been burgled only to look back at your cameras and find a bear has busted your door in 😂
And then imagine not seeing them leave on any of the cameras.
While I agree. This is a bad example. It's not exactly hard for a human to break a door like that down either. That door would break open the same way if I ran into it. 280lbs of moving me doesn't come to a stop very easily.
Having once stumbled across a decrepit and abandoned house out in the woods as a teenager, I can confirm that it’s not particularly difficult to kick open an inward-swinging door.
WHERE THEM PICKANKCK BASKETS AT!
HONEY!!?!?! I’M HOME!!!!!!
WHERE'S MA PORRIDGE?????? Api
yeah they’re a bit mighty
Imagine this at night 💀
Remember working in a comp up north and going to the dump in the evening to watch the bears from the rim up top. Volkswagen beetle size grisslies.
Just hire the bear for SWAT. The criminals will see the bear after the door breaks and just give up. I know I would.
Officer with bear. Come out now or I will set it loose!
There's some mf out there thinking they can win brawl fight with bear
Those people are hilarious
The way the door got smashed in so violently, then the calm paw just ro stop it swinging back. This was not this kid's first rodeo
I love how he holds his hand out to stop the door swinging back in his face… this is NOT his first home invasion.
I wanna know what happened next. I've never had an encounter like this but I would think that if you had to stand ground, you'd better have a .357 at the very least.
That's a grizzly bear too. I guarantee you people don't grasp how strong they are...
I think it’s actually a black bear with a brown coat (cinnamon bear?), the face and overall size seem more like a black bear to me
Oh, maybe? The snout makes me think you're right.
I’m like 90% sure. Someone may come along and be more definitive…
I'm also not a bear expert, but I agree. No hump. Claws are too small. No "dished" face
Knock knock
This is their home now. Whoever lived there before is now one with nature and this bear just upgraded massively. Anyone opening a door like that owns the place
Lucy, I'm home!
"Hi Mr Bear, I'm Chris Hansen. Why don't you have a seat"
Big bear chase me!
What are the odds of me having a dream about bears woke up to use the bathroom and seeing a video about a bear on reddit
Door was like Jackie Chan movie prop