Just another day in the Hammock District

September 15, 2015 1:57 PM

Bear Cubs vs Hammock
posted by Room 641-A (20 comments total)

Bonus: No kids to be heard anywhere in the background of this one, just one very annoyed dog.
posted by Space Coyote at 2:07 PM on September 15, 2015 [5 favorites]

Yes. Angry doggy >>>> whiny kids, even though if you translated from Dog-->English it's probably still just "but why are you letting him play with *MY* hammock?"

Needs more cynical husband though.
posted by sparklemotion at 2:11 PM on September 15, 2015

Love the dog. It sounds exactly like many chihuahuas in my family. A chihuahua will jump in front of a bear for you, which is why you have to take good care of them and make sure they don't.
posted by Countess Elena at 2:19 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]

Gonna just go ahead and assume those are the same bear family that had the swimming pool adventure but in a different yard and not going to do any research to possibly correct this.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:26 PM on September 15, 2015 [17 favorites]

This has kind of a Blair Witch ending with the guy's "Should I try to chase them away?"
posted by middlethird at 2:38 PM on September 15, 2015

If nothing else, it's a pretty good ad for that hammock. I figured they'd shred it in minutes.
posted by doctor_negative at 2:44 PM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]

Mom's a beautiful sleek animal.
posted by Trochanter at 2:56 PM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]

Oh sure, cute video and all, but I'm really disgusted with bears these days. If they're not playing in the swimming pool, they're taking a hammock break. Back in my day bears used to do bear stuff. Actual, appropriate bear stuff! You just wait -- next viral video that comes along, they'll be mashing the buttons on an X-box controller, playing Madden or some shit.

Sheesh. Bears these days.
posted by mudpuppie at 3:01 PM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]

I love it at 1:40 when momma decides to stick her face through the hammock and play bitey puppy with the pillow. This made my afternoon.
posted by Existential Dread at 3:29 PM on September 15, 2015

"Well, that's the risk of owning a hammock in this area."
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:37 PM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]

If nothing else, it's a pretty good ad for that hammock. I figured they'd shred it in minutes.

Truth told, it was already shredded.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 3:39 PM on September 15, 2015

I pay the Homer tax. Make the bears pay the bear tax.
posted by LoRichTimes at 3:53 PM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]

I like the part where the first one finally gets untangled and is immediately "I wanna go again!" and tries to hop right back on the hammock.
posted by Room 641-A at 4:01 PM on September 15, 2015

They had some difficulty. Are these bears of average intelligence?
posted by thelonius at 4:08 PM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]

Well if they were smarter than the average bear they would be carrying picnic baskets now, wouldn't they?
posted by Nerd of the North at 4:35 PM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]

These appear to be Bears Of Very Little Brain.
posted by jeather at 4:49 PM on September 15, 2015 [4 favorites]

This is pretty much me on a hammock. I cried laughing. Thanks.
posted by town of cats at 10:17 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]

Fuck why hammocks gotta be so much fuckin work just wanna sleep
posted by maxsparber at 6:20 AM on September 16, 2015

Oh sure, cute video and all, but I'm really disgusted with bears these days. If they're not playing in the swimming pool, they're taking a hammock break. Sheesh. Bears these days.
posted by mudpuppie

Tell me about it! Just yesterday one was loafing about at a motorcycle resort!

In all seriousness, it is currently the Fall Shuffle (hyperphagia). This means that black bears are eating up to 20,000 calories per day, trying to pack on the pounds for winter hibernation. Bears are very active and into everything right now. The bear that lives in the holler where I live has been raiding trash cans for the last week or so, so we've all moved our trash into our garages.
posted by workerant at 10:19 AM on September 16, 2015

Bears are very active and into everything right now.

They are indeed, which I should have remembered when I went out last night, but failed to take into account when I left for a game of pinochle with some friends. As a result I didn't leave my outdoor light on when I left the house for an evening of dinner and cards and had an unexpected encounter on the way home.

My house is located on a "street" that, while classified as an official city street, is physically a public wooden stairway with a boardwalk at the top, providing walk-in access shared by several houses -- we have quite a few such streets in my neighborhood because our terrain is very steep and when the town was laid out in some places where it was unfeasible to carry on as a paved road they continued some of the city street grid as stairs and boardwalks.

In any case.. I live at the top of such an arrangement and last night returned home about 11:00 pm. It was a rainy night and thus no speck of light from the sky, and with none of the lights from my house on it's quite dark on the boardwalk at the top of the stairs. So I wasn't quite prepared when I met a bear coming down the boardwalk that I was headed up. I'm fortunate that the bear turned and ran (practically before I was even aware that it was there) but still there's nothing quite like the way your heart pounds after an unplanned encounter with a several-hundred-pound creature in the dark.
posted by Nerd of the North at 10:31 AM on September 19, 2015