A couple in Asheville, North Carolina, heard honking coming from their neighbors’ car and discovered a big black bear inside.
In video that surfaced on Monday, we see the two neighbors opening the door of the minivan in hopes that the bear would just climb out. But as the woman on the clip explained, due to the way the car was parked on a slight hill, every time they opened the door it would close leaving the bear trapped inside.
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“We see the van rocking back and forth. The condensation is in the window,” the neighbor lady shared. “And we’re saying, ‘What is our plan? What are we going to do?'”
“So they thought they’d just open the door and the bear would run out,” she added. “But the van was on such an angle that the door would slam on its own. So that was not going to help.”
She continued, “[The bear] took the window down. Alex, Alex.”
“Let’s go in. Let’s go in,” the man can be heard saying as we hear the sound of breaking glass behind him and see the bear climb out the window and leave the scene.
That wasn’t the end for this couple, however, after they came back in their house and found drawers in the kitchen pulled out, watermarks on the ground and the bear himself munching on a package of muffin mix in their mudroom.
The woman said, in the end, she just felt bad for the bear after the latest housing development had taken over part of where the bears live.