r/interesting • u/MrTacocaT12345 • 6h ago
NATURE Bear gets stuck on utility pole
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u/Macro_Seb 6h ago
Dude moved to a pole, so he could become a polar bear
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u/Timely_Leading5007 6h ago
Spy bear
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u/Timely-Dot-9967 5h ago
His nose is bearing NNW, shows his clan the way to the secret salmonberry patch
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u/Darth_Ronin 6h ago
They got it down safely.
I’m not sure if it’s the same bear, but there have been other cases of bears on power poles in Cochise County, Arizona over the years.
And seems like the same lineman keeps getting them down.
Idk maybe he’s trained them to climb them, for job security.
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u/hologrammetry 6h ago
I am a lineman for the county ...
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u/Unicorns_Butthole 3h ago
Is this a Psychonauts reference I see before me?!
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u/__phil1001__ 2h ago
No a song reference
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u/Unicorns_Butthole 1h ago
Ah, learn something new every day 😁 cheers!
In Psychonauts, the G-Men dress up as different people and say things like, "I am a grieving widow."
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u/ThePocketTaco2 6h ago
I'd like to think this is a single part in a series following this wayward bear and the lineman who isn't quite sick of his shit yet.
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u/keyboardtoes 6h ago
did you see that bear that was living in an industrial windmill?
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u/Darth_Ronin 6h ago
No, I might be coming off as more of a randomly placed bear expert than I should be right now.
I’m familiar with this randomly placed bear, because I posted the same video on another sub, so I looked up the details.
But I am always open to learning about new randomly placed bears.
Where will they be next?
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u/SRB112 6h ago
Glad to hear. When bears were showing up in neighborhoods in my area 25 years ago they'd run up a tree, police and fire department would surround it and after a couple hours they'd decide to shoot the bear with a tranquilizer gun. Almost every time the bear would die when it would fall asleep and fall to the ground. Now having a bear go through neighborhoods is a somewhat common occurrence and instead of calling the police we go inside and try to get a good video to post online.
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u/KBHoleN1 4h ago
This video isn't from Arizona. The bear you're referencing was rescued in 2025. Everyone just blindly referencing the Werner Neubauer video is dumb. Even if you know nothing about power poles, you can tell the other video has a lot more equipment on the pole. Even if you don't know much about geography, you can tell this isn't Arizona.
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u/j-shoe 6h ago
Where's this video?!
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u/Darth_Ronin 6h ago
I don’t have a video it was an update on insta, like you can go google it, I’ve provided enough details lol
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u/KalynnCampbell 6h ago
“They”
The people recording this little TikTok?
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u/Darth_Ronin 6h ago
Nah the utility crew.
> A black bear was safely rescued after climbing a utility pole in rural Cochise County, Arizona, and ending up dangerously close to live power lines. Utility crews quickly shut off the electricity before beginning the rescue.
> Lineman Werner J. Neubauer used a fiberglass pole from a bucket truck to gently encourage the bear to climb down. The animal safely reached the ground unharmed and ran back into the desert. No injuries were reported.
And if you look up Werner you’ll see it wasn’t his first rodeo
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u/altec777777 5h ago
I'm pretty sure he went up in a cherry picker with a bucket of salmon. Had the bear put its fall protection harness on and then they lowered per OSHA rules.
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u/Due_Reputation3785 6h ago
I didn’t even know there were bears in Arizona.
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u/Low-Crow5719 25m ago
Lots of them. Bear country is up above the Mogollon Rim, from maybe Flagstaff southeast to the White Mountains.
But the U of A's "Bear Down" has nothing to do with getting bears down from poles.
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u/-Call-me-Cal- 6h ago
Bear: No shade at all. Worst tree ever. 0 of 5 stars would not recommend.
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u/StitchFan626 6h ago
And yet, he's still up there? Maybe he's not looking for shade, maybe he's having an identity crisis and thinks he's a bird?
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u/NoDragonfruit6125 6h ago
Obviously he thought he was Australian. Just waiting for something to come underneath and then he'll be a Drop Bear.
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u/GatFussyPals 6h ago
"I am a lineman for the county And I drive the main road Searchin' in the sun for another damn bear that's got stuck up a pole..."
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u/Beneficial-Dot-6535 6h ago
Fish and wildlife and party rental collaboration.
Bounce house plus tranquilizer
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u/Funny-Hovercraft1964 5h ago
don’t firemen or stuntmen have something like that for people jumping out of buildings?
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u/navy_yn2000 4h ago
It's obviously aliens. They try to beam them up to the UFO, but they're too heavy and land on the pole.
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u/Texan-Tango 1h ago
Buddy is 2 inches from going phase to ground. Hopefully they were able to de-energize and save him.
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