Chad Morris was in the middle of a vacation with his family in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, when his parents suddenly began screaming for him to come outside. Morris rushed outside their cabin to see what all the commotion was about and could not believe his eyes.
In the driveway, there was an entire family of bears — and it appeared they were trying to steal his car.
“As soon as I saw them they were walking up to my car and the three cubs hopped in,” said Morris.
While the mama bear watched nearby, the three bear cubs had a grand time rolling around inside the car, playing in the driver’s seat, leaning out the windows and fooling around with whatever they could find inside the car.
The bears were aware of Morris and his parents watching from a safe distance, but they did not seem to care about their presence at all; they carried right on with their destruction of property and attempted car theft.
“They saw us standing around taking pictures, but they never bothered us,” said Morris.
When the bear cubs finally realized the car was not going anywhere and they had sufficiently explored the entire thing, then they carefully climbed their way out of it and attempted to overtake the other car parked in the driveway as well.
“They crawled out of the windows and two of them stood up next to my mom and dad’s car, but their windows were up,” said Morris. “After five more minutes of walking around the cars, they went back down the mountain together, off in the woods.”
When the bears had disappeared into the woods once again, Morris ran over to assess the damage. He was surprised at how well his car had fared after being ransacked by three rambunctious bear cubs.
“They tore a chunk out of the leather on the driver’s seat by the headrest, and left scratches in a few spots on the interior,” said Morris. “One bit down into my protein shake top, and my son’s football has claw marks on it.”
However, for the most part, his car was okay, and now Morris and his family have an incredibly crazy story in their repertoire about the time a whole family of bears crashed their vacation and tried to steal their cars.
Image credits: Chad Morris
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