{"id":666782,"date":"2026-06-30T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666782\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:39:09","slug":"bear-found-sitting-in-front-seat-of-truck-gives-driver-a-fright-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666782\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear found sitting in front seat of truck gives driver a fright | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver found a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bear\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bear<\/a> sitting in the front seat of his truck that was parked up in Steamboat Springs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/colorado\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Kerrigan was outside a residential building on Clubhouse Drive when he opened the door to his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Staring back at him was the huge animal, which appeared to be calm, the sight of which startled Mr Kerrigan.<\/p>\n<p>Kerrigan opened the truck door before shooing the bear away with a piece of wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver found a bear sitting in the front seat of his truck that was parked up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[222414,222413,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-666782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-optamatchid2608311","tag-optauuid3t13xxgisfsmlvm62iydvpqms","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}