- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Late at night, I'm camping with the family. My dad, he's big, wears lots of black. So, this one night, pretty late, I see him bent over at the side of the camp, so I go over to see what's up. I get to this one tree near him, before I start to realize that he doesn't look right.
So I'm about to walk a few more feet and look at what he's doing, when I just didn't feel right, so I stopped.
I blinked a few times, squinted to try to see better in the dark, then called out to him. He turned to look; It wasn't my dad kneeling on the ground doing something, it's a black bear eating a fish.
Oops. In my defence, a black bear and my dad look pretty similar, especially in the dark.
So then I move so that the tree is between the bear and I, then I back up about fifty feet to the tents, wake up my brother, and we went and hid in the outhouse(chemicals to mask our scent, just in case). It snuffled around the camp for a while, then wandered off. A few minutes later, my parents got back to the camp later that night, and they thought it was just hilarious.