Bear hits the trash cans of a Washington suburb

Residents of Kensington, Maryland, a tony Beltway suburb, have a brand new and never significantly welcome neighbor: a bear.

Residents noticed the ursine customer early this week, wandering round a neighborhood of million-dollar houses. Surveillance video pictured the bear sniffing trash cans. The neighborhood sits about eight miles from the White Home.

“It’s simply been hanging across the neighborhood,” mentioned Ian Velinsky, an area actual property agent who lives on Culver Avenue. “I’ve been right here for some time, and it’s undoubtedly not one thing that’s regular.”

Certainly, bear sightings are uncommon within the inside suburbs of Washington, D.C. Fretful messages have flooded neighborhood listservs. Canine house owners are avoiding nocturnal walks. A neighborhood college has launched a bear watch.

A spokesman for the Maryland Division of Pure Sources advised the native NBC affiliate the black bear in all probability arrived in Kensington through Rock Creek, presumably from a extra sparsely populated location farther north in Montgomery County. He suggested residents to herald their fowl feeders.

Residents are stunned that nobody from the county or state has swept in to usher the bear again to a extra pure habitat, perhaps up close to Frederick, Maryland: They’re used to bears.

“The response has been, ‘Better of luck to you,’” Velinsky mentioned.