Wildlife officials in the Rocky Mountain region report far more trouble between black bears and people than usual this summer. Biologists blame drought. Months of dry weather mean less berries and other natural things for bears to eat. (AP video by Brittany Peterson)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Patrick Sullivan was sure it was a “crazy neighbor” honking a car horn nonstop while Sullivan was up feeding his infant son at 3 a.m. one night this summer.
It was a neighbor all right, but not a human one. A black bear had opened the door of a Toyota SUV and was trapped inside the vehicle in Gold Hill, Colorado, northwest of Denver.
In one of hundreds of examples of bears getting into more trouble than usual in the parched Rocky Mountains this summer, the animal kept bumping the horn as it ripped apart the Toyota’s interior, desperately trying to escape.
“It’s totaled. It’s unfit to drive,” Sullivan said of the car.
