CA - Bear lands on patrol car responding to overdose causing rollover crash and fire

[Betty P]

A Humboldt County sheriff's deputy was responding to an emergency call about an overdose.

On Aug. 3 at around 11 p.m. the patrol car was heading north on Highway 96 with lights and sirens blaring, when a bear suddenly fell from an embankment and landed on the hood. The patrol car then struck an embankment, rolled over and came to rest on its side. The crash then sparked a fire that destroyed the vehicle and ignited nearby vegetation on the embankment, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office.

HCSO: Bear lands on patrol car during response to overdose causing rollover crash and fire

 

[LadyL]

the title makes it seem like the bear was overdosing

glad the deputy is ok; hope the bear is too

 

[Lilibet]

The bear fled the scene. This made the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...aa48b6-bb03-11e9-8e83-4e6687e99814_story.html

 

[Betty P]

The bear fled the scene. This made the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...aa48b6-bb03-11e9-8e83-4e6687e99814_story.html

Imagine - there you are, just driving down the road one night and suddenly a bear lands on the hood of your car.

It certainly caused quite a bit of damage. Flipped and totaled that patrol car and burned it down to the frame.

 

[Indy Anna]

Another ursine miscreant on the lam:

A bear broke in. Police responded. Then it punched through a wall 'like the Kool-Aid Man.'
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Local black bears in northern Colorado have channeled fictitious velociraptors, opening car doors to swipe food so often that they break into vehicles without smelling food just to see if they get lucky.

On Saturday, one bear tried its luck in a home in Estes Park, attracted to the scent of trash in the area, the town's police department said in a statement. After the bear got into the house, officers were dispatched to respond.

The bear was not having that. It turned tail and ran when officers arrived, paying no mind to a wall blocking its way. The bear "forcibly breached a hole in the wall like the 'Kool-Aid Man,' and made its escape," the department said on Facebook.