Bet you have different emotions for that bear now don't you? Also bet you didn't call him cute after evaluating the damage.
I have bears right in my backyard. Occasionally one will come in to town and roam the streets the night before garbbage day. I guess he thinks its his own personal buffet! Last year in the summer, a woman a block up from me heard something outside early one morning and looked out her kitchen window to see a big old blackie standing on its hind legs in her above ground pool. He decided to take a dip and then crawled up the pool steps and layed on the deck like he owned the place.