I doubt it workl quite that way. We have bears that come around the house and eat from people's feeders. These same bears will take off like a bat out of hell if they sense a human in the woods. They are still wild and cunning.

Even in states that allow baiting, bears are still super-skittish and flee from any human scent or sound. I don't think they run up to any humans they see, especially when encountered in the woods.

This was also a crossbow kill. The bear would have been broadside, not coming right for him.

The guy who was doing the feeding was not a hunter. He was just a guy who liked to see bears. I believe he had several compaints from neighbors.

If that bear was not shot by a hunter, it would have eventually been killed by the game commission. I think it was trapped a couple times as a nuisance bear and relocated.

With all the hooplah surrounding that bear (it was all over the news), the game commission did a thorough investigation. Baiting is illegal in PA, so the hunters would have had to have been far away from the twinkie man and they would have also had to been away from the path the bear would have supposedly taken.