Shame on them for laughing...bears are serious problems, and even black bears have been known to hunt children...Not far from here (in Utah) sometime in the last few years, a 12 year old was pulled through the window of a cabin by a black bear, carried off and killed...
The village board approved the budget tonight and half the village showed up to protest an increase.....we were just hanging out for a few minutes after the meeting when I brought up that they were both up on our hill for a bear sighting this morning.
I do have to laugh though - the bear saw my headlights and hightailed it up a tree just a few feet from my car, it's just around the corner from my house....he/she acted scared, but man it was huge compared to that tree. Like a 250 pound man hugging a tree....... Thank God I didn't hit it and wreck my car.