300-Pound Bear Caught Walking Into Sierra Madre Home

By KCAL News, CBS Los Angeles

June 7, 2024

Utterly shocked to see a 300-pound bear walking into his kitchen Tuesday evening, Jason Wightman first did what many people would do when face-to-face with a wild animal: pull out his phone and talk to it.

"Hello, are you nice?" he said in the recording. "You're in my house. Get out of my house."

Wightman lives in Sierra Madre, a town nestled at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains and filled with bears looking to forage after hibernating for the winter.

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