A dozen years ago I was seeing the same in Yellowstone. On the way out of the Park back to Teton Village, traffic came to a crawl. On the opposite of the road on a small bank, a large Black Bear was rooting around in the grass. Fricking multiple people were out of their cars getting as close as possible for photos. AND A FRICKING Park Ranger instead of chastising the people for being idiots AND breaking the very specific rules of exactly what they were doing was more concerned with traffic control. UNFRIGGING believable.
It’s not Black Bears that are dangerous to People it’s Grizzly Bears that are dangerous to People. They look at People as Food.