(KTLA) Erin Myers was in Southern California on Monday to report on a coming rainstorm for affiliate KTLA, but an unexpected visitor stole the show.
While Myers talked about getting ready for a potential flood, a bear decided to climb onto the trash cans behind her, snatched a bag from one of them, and ran off to have its feast.
“A bear watch and a storm watch here in Altadena, so a lot going on this morning,” she said.
Southern California is populated by black bears, omnivores whose diets include trash.
“It happens to be trash day. It’s also bear day because it’s trash day,” Eric Spillman added from KTLA’s studio in Hollywood.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates the state’s black bear population to be between 49,000 and 71,000.
