Social media video of a black bear being pestered by people while feasting on fish on the shores of the Campbell River has sparked outrage online and among locals.
The video was posted seven weeks ago to Instagram by user B100k and has now caught the attention of residents in the Vancouver Island city, located about 225 kilometres north of Victoria, B.C.
The video, shot by someone on a bridge looking down at a beach, shows a group of people with fishing gear fixated on a black bear eating at the river’s edge.
Members of the group get within inches of the animal as they pose for selfies and take photos of it. Toward the end of the video, one of the individuals attempts to pet the bear.
Far, far too many people forget wild animals are WILD.
Far too many get away with it… if that bear had taken an arm, as an object lesson, I doubt any of his friends would have forgotten the lesson
There was that recent clip of the guy putting his hand near a sharks mouth and fataly says "just two seconds won’t do anything".
Some people are stupid and will invariably be torn apart by wild animals or machinery
My grandpa taught me a lot of those life lessons.
Table saw+chicken sticks? “It’s okay if you don’t want to use them. But, eh, you know old Joe[his neighbor]?”
“Yeah…?”
“You ever notice his thumb?” (old Joe had a toe for a thumb. Literally.)