Footage from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, shows a young black bear sniffing around a covered porch area before being confronted by a dad who didn’t feel like replacing his Deuter child carrier for hiking. The dad, Mitch Bellrichard, approaches the bear, banging a chair and shouting to try to scare the bear away. Thankfully, it works, because those things are expensive.
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“This young bear was trying to run off with the baby carrier pack from our porch in Gatlinburg,” Bellrichard wrote in his Instagram post. “I’ve used this pack for 3 kids now I didn’t want to have to buy a new one now.”
Watch a black bear see what it could find on a Gatlinburg porch below (or see it here).
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