Hard to bear roommates
Late last Fall “John and Marcia” began to hear strange noises in their house. At first, they thought it could be the wind or the changing temperature. As the tried to rationalize what their ears were telling both of them, the noises seemed to continue, but mostly at night after everything else had settle down. They talked to their neighbors asking if they were getting the same noises at their houses and they got curious looks, but no good answers. As the cold persisted and they were more homebound they swore they could hear somebody snoring at night. Eventually they called around and told the Bear League Group had been hearing “some odd rumbling, snoring-like noises” throughout the winter. However, they had been ignoring the mysterious sounds because they “simply didn’t make sense.” As the days began to warm up the snoring turned to rustling and rumbling, it could no longer be ignored.
The Bear League Group described how one mother bear, along with three of her own cubs and an adopted orphan, had decided to spend the winter in the crawlspace under the house in South Lake Tahoe, California. The group was brought in to “un-invite” the bear. BEAR League volunteers arrived to speed up the “check-out” process. They crawled under the home and made a lot of noises to “encourage” the snoring bruin to get moving. “They were just waking up,” Sarah Bryant said. “We got the mother out, and she called to the babies. Everyone was surprised to see not only the mother emerge, but a line of cubs follow? It was quite the scene to then watch the four yearling cubs emerge from the opening and join together on the other side of the fence to venture forth into 2022.” The cubs were estimated to be around 14 months old now. Likely the orphan’s mother had been killed by a car last Fall. After the bear family vacated the space, an electric barrier was installed in the crawl space opening so any bears trying to get in will get a small shock. The group said its volunteers were trained for these situations, as it’s extremely common for bears to settle under homes to hibernate. Bryant said her group gets roughly 100-150 calls per winter from residents reporting sleeping bears under their homes.
Roommate Rumblings
My roommate claims I’m schizophrenic.
Joke’s on him, I don’t have a roommate.
My roommate thinks our house is haunted. Nonsense!
I’ve lived here for 219 years and never noticed anything strange.
I’ve been trying to kick my roommates out for months now.
But they keep insisting that I call them “Mom and Dad.”
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
April 27th Birthdays
1959 – Sheena Easton, 1986 – Jenna Coleman, 1969 – Maria Carey and Pauley Perrette
1922 – Jack Klugman, 1977 – William Moseley, 1994 – Elmo Magalona, 1845 – Willam Rontgen