In Tennessee, there are signs all over that said, “Beware of Bears.” And then it would tell you not to leave food around and things, to avoid the bears. Well, there was — we were on a car trail. You — it was like a hiking trail, but you stayed in your car for eleven miles and saw really cool stuff.
Well, up above us there was heavy traffic, foot traffic as well as car traffic. So we stopped to see what was going on. And we got out of the car, me and my mom. And there was a mama bear and three triplets, playing in the field. But there was a little wire, and it’s like the bear knew where that wire was and totally ignored us taking pictures of them, of her and her babies. Until this one man saw the bears, saw the wire, picked his three-year-old up, and put him over the wire and then joined him.
Now there’s nothing between him and the bear, and the bear got interested. Everybody was screaming at him to get his child out of there. This is a mama bear with three babies, and he’s putting his child in there like it’s a stuffed animal. Everybody’s screaming for him to get out of there. Finally, his mother, screaming to get his grandch- — get her grandchild out of there did it for him, and he left there. “I just wanted to get a picture with the bears,” he said.
I never saw such stupidity in all my life.