{"id":905185,"date":"2026-07-01T10:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/905185\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:06:29","slug":"watch-bear-found-sitting-in-front-seat-of-mans-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/905185\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Bear found sitting in front seat of man&#8217;s truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rcjxlnaof0ee44jw.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Justin E Pickar via Storyful\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rcjxlnaof0ee44jw.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Justin E Pickar via Storyful\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A Colorado man got an unexpected surprise when he opened the door to his truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">While many may expect to find a puppy sitting in the front seat of a vehicle, Andy Kerrigan was shocked when he opened his door and found a bear sitting in the front seat.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Kerrigan was stowing equipment at a home in Steamboat Springs when he opened the door and came face-to-face with the curious visitor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> The bear caught on camera  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The incident captured on a CCTV camera showed Kerrigan initially flinching, but making several attempts to shoo away the animal.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He was eventually able to chase the animal out and off with a wooden plank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This story was written with information provided by Storyful. This story was reported from Orlando.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/co\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Colorado man got an unexpected surprise when he opened the door to his truck.\u00a0 While many may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":905186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[93966,50,8047,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":["post-905185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-co","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116844166781685828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}