Last night I saw a very strange sight indeed!

[SteveSS]

I was test-driving a new Challenger-Hellcat-Redeye-Widebody through the Rocky Mountains. In a fairly flat river valley, I saw a herd of cattle running hard. I've worked cattle enough to know they only run when a feed truck pulls up. So I'm looking for the rancher and his truck but I saw something else.

The whole herd was chasing a big Black Bear out of the pasture. The bear must have been looking for an easy calf to grab but the cattle were having none of it. The bear was about 40 yards in front of the herd, running clumsily as bears do, with his big ears flapping up and down,

After our turnaround at the Continental Divide, I saw the bear again but on the other side of the highway. He was on the shoulder about to cross the highway in front of me. I hit the brakes hard and he decided to turn back. I got a good look at him from about 6 feet away. I was very happy to not destroy a new Redeye with 5,000 miles on it.

Although they are called Black Bears many and brownish-blonde. My bear resembled this picture.

 

[Brandy]

'Herd Immunity'......

 

[vance.dykes]

cow's life's matter [mmmmmmm]
so the back bears got chased out buy cow's maybe we should send them to Seattle or the city of chop ?

 

[R/T Boy 67]

They also come in white.

 

[vance.dykes]

They also come in white.View attachment 964338

well what do you know would look at that

 

[FJ6AAR]

The first picture is a brown Bear or Grizzly

 

[Budnicks]

maybe you just used that for color

BUT

That photo in the OP's post,
is a Brown Bear/Grizzly
it's not a black bear
black bears no matter the color
don't have the hump on the shoulders
that's a Grizzly, North American Brown Bear/Russian Brown Bear
or Kodiak subspecies traits

"the story" is pretty cool though

good you didn't wreck the car

 

[w.Hudson]

Not saying it was Bigfoot, but it was Bigfoot.

 

[Mjcre]

I was test-driving a new Challenger-Hellcat-Redeye-Widebody through the Rocky Mountains. In a fairly flat river valley, I saw a herd of cattle running hard. I've worked cattle enough to know they only run when a feed truck pulls up. So I'm looking for the rancher and his truck but I saw something else.

The whole herd was chasing a big Black Bear out of the pasture. The bear must have been looking for an easy calf to grab but the cattle were having none of it. The bear was about 40 yards in front of the herd, running clumsily as bears do, with his big ears flapping up and down,

After our turnaround at the Continental Divide, I saw the bear again but on the other side of the highway. He was on the shoulder about to cross the highway in front of me. I hit the brakes hard and he decided to turn back. I got a good look at him from about 6 feet away. I was very happy to not destroy a new Redeye with 5,000 miles on it.

Although they are called Black Bears many and brownish-blonde. My bear resembled this picture.


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Your story brought back some memories of when a buddy and I were coyote hunting many years ago. We shot a coyote about 200 yards away and wounded it. It then ran straight towards a herd of cattle. The cattle then charged the coyote and plowed right over him. Coyote didn’t survive getting trampled.

 

[Richard Cranium]

"Test-driving a new Challenger-Hellcat-Redeye-Widebody with 5,000 miles on it"?


That's a lot of test-drive miles.

 

[SteveSS]

It's a test car from FCA. You're right about the bear, I don't think my bear had a hump on its shoulders but it was that color.

 

[Xp29h]

Black bears also come in a cinnamon color too, although rare I’ve seen a couple over the years.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Black bears also come in a cinnamon color too, although rare I’ve seen a couple over the years.

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Which only proves that black bears matter.

 

[Xp29h]

 

[WP29440SE]

Which proves that only black bears matter.

fixed, your welcome lol

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

NO! Black lines MATTER!

 

[SteveSS]

You guys would not believe some of the stuff I'm test driving. Not just FCA's but other stuff in the 3 second 0-60 range. The future is bright for fast vehicles and a lot of these vehicles are getting 30 mpg.

 

[Thrashingcows]

Black bears also come in a cinnamon color too, although rare I’ve seen a couple over the years.

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I live in the North of Canada and drive fuel trucks on the night shift...so I see a TON of wild life out on the hwy's. I have seen a fair number of cinnamon black bears, and even a few grizzlies. If you are familiar with black bears then when you see a grizzly there is no question to what it is, females are generally bigger then large male black bears and the male grizzles are just monsters. I saw a male grizzly about 1/4 mile away in a pasture one day and it gave me the willies down my spine because of just how huge he was even at that distance.

 

[SteveSS]

Some neighbors have confused out Newfoundlands with Black Bears.