'We gotta get you outta here:' Bear wedged under porch chased away by Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer

Bear wedged under porch chased away by Parks and Wildlife officer

A bear wedged itself deep under a porch near Colorado Springs.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officer Corey Adler talked with the bear as he tried to get it out, without having to tranquilize it.

"You just want to rest don't ya," Adler says to the bear. "We gotta get you outta here though."

Adler used his taser and fired paintballs to haze the bear into leaving.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officer Corey Adler fires his paintball gun at a bear to scare it out of a Colorado Springs neighborhood after the bear wedged itself under a porch. Colorado Parks and Wildlife

He tried to avoid tranquilizing the bear because if it misbehaved again, it would have to be put down.

"Hazing it saved it a critical 'strike' under CPW policy," CPW said, of the incident.

Today's @COParksWildlife #wildlife #rescue story is of a bear that wedged itself deep under a porch near #ColoradoSprings Sunday. CPW Officer Corey Adler avoided handling the bear. Hazing it saved it a critical "strike" under CPW policy. Listen as he talks to the bear throughout. pic.twitter.com/AOj3mAJ3S8
— CPW SE Region (@CPW_SE) September 20, 2022

But hazing the bear wasn't enough.

Officer Adler followed the bear for 8 minutes through the woods, shooting paintballs and using the sound of his taser to make the bear afraid of humans.

Austen Erblat

Austen Erblat is a digital producer and assignment editor at CBS News Colorado and is Covering Colorado First. Originally from South Florida, he's been working as a journalist in Denver since 2022.

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