A bear rummaging through trash in a Los Alamos, N. M., dumpster, went for a wild ride last month when a garbage truck driver accidentally loaded it onboard.
"The driver didn't know the bear was in there, and he unknowingly dumped the bear into the truck along with the dumpster's contents," Julie Anne Overton with the Santa Fe National Forest told ABC. "He said he heard a squeal."
AP reports the bear, who climbed on top of the truck, rode for at least 5 miles. Then, the driver, guided by about 30 forest service and national park workers, backed the truck up to a tree so the bear could climb off. Caleb Johnson captured video of the escape.
The bear stayed in the tree for about an hour before heading back into the wild.
So much for hitching a ride to a landfill.
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