I watched a video of bears in the parking lot of a park somewhere out West. They knew that cars sometimes have food stored in them and also knew how to easily get inside cars with the windows rolled all the way up. They used their claws to peel back the window frame like a can of sardines and crawled in. I don't remember how many cars they trashed but it was quite a sight.
Its kind of funny. My freshman year roommate ended up leaving school and working for 2-3 years at a wilderness resort out West. He said black bears are honestly more like big a** raccoons than anything else. If you aren't around them and their cubs, they are more or less harmless, but a nuisance cause they are grubs and quite intelligent. They might take a swipe at you if you try to stop them from their snacking, but otherwise, its just an unfortunate annoyance.
He had multiple stories of scared guests with a bear around that they were tasked with sorting out. Bears that were used to people, so yelling or waving your arms, like they tell hikers, had little effect and would honestly elicit the equivalent of an eye roll. They would literally lure the bears away with human food and they would lumber away contently.
He told me something like "I'm terrified of mountain lions and honestly would be more worried about coyotes than a black bear, cause they are unpredictable and roam in packs. But a bear? Its more likely a male black bear eats a donut out of my hand than randomly attacks me."
