Bear Sightings in Bethesda

Can it really be that there are black bears in the D.C. area? Seems so.

The television folks keep stressing that black bear attacks on humans are "very rare." I guess that they haven't considered that, if a bear was at all aggressive and inclined toward attacking people, and it, um, lived in the D.C. suburbs, we probably would have had one or two bear attacks by now.

The big question is not when will the bear attack a person. The question is when one of these black bears will get hit by a car. Because the bear or bears in Bethesda have a lot more to fear from people than we do them.