{"id":609709,"date":"2026-09-24T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609709\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:08:08","slug":"black-bear-rides-on-trash-truck-after-getting-dumped-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609709\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Rides on Trash Truck After Getting Dumped (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CBSColorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CBS Colorado<\/a> recently shared viewer footage of a black bear riding on top of a trash truck. Apparently, the bear was inside a dumpster when the trash truck emptied its contents, including the bear. The bear managed to climb out of the back of the trash truck and took a ride before climbing down and being \u201cshoo\u2019d\u201d off by the employee driving the truck. The incident occurred in Castle Rock, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/watch-bear-gets-stuck-in-dumpster-in-durango-colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WATCH: Bear Gets Stuck in Dumpster in Durango, Colorado<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colorado is seeing a lot of bear activity as these animals enter a stage called hyperphagia, which drives them to continue eating as they fatten up for the upcoming winter. A drought across the state has also driven black bears into human areas\u2014even more so than usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch a bear ride on the top of a trash truck in Colorado below (or see it <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/JPXJQakGK4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Header stock image by BeyondMyLens\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Colorado recently shared viewer footage of a black bear riding on top of a trash truck. Apparently,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3485,111,139,69,147,406,97394],"class_list":["post-609709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-black-bear","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}