{"id":238352,"date":"2025-10-20T10:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238352\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:32:16","slug":"bear-tries-to-open-trash-can-and-fails-miserably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238352\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Tries to Open Trash Can (And Fails Miserably)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A viral video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/justin.prax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Justin Prax<\/a> shows a bear trying its best to open a trash can by pressing down on it repeatedly, as if giving the trash can CPR. The bear tries and tries as Prax films it from afar, and then the bear appears to get frustrated and give up. We\u2019ve all been there, bear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisitors in Robe this morning,\u201d wrote Prax in his Facebook post sharing the video. Presumably, Prax is referring to the Robe Lake area near Valdez, Alaska. The comment thread reveals that folks in that neighborhood have locked trash-can lids for exactly this reason. <\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/watch-hiker-meets-grizzly-bears-on-glacier-national-park-trail\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: Hiker Meets G<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/watch-hiker-meets-grizzly-bears-on-glacier-national-park-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">r<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/watch-hiker-meets-grizzly-bears-on-glacier-national-park-trail\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">izzly Bears on Glacier National Park Trail<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s some good advertising for the trash bin,\u201d wrote one person on the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The bear is] CPR certified, clearly!\u201d joked another.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a bear attempt to get into a trash can (and fail):<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by Manuel ROMARIS\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Best Bear (and Mountain Lion) Sprays<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/best-bear-spray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bear sprays here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This post contains affiliate links. Outdoors.com may earn a commission when you make a purchase through these links. Thank you for your support.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A viral video from Justin Prax shows a bear trying its best to open a trash can by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7438,79,201,41629],"class_list":{"0":"post-238352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bear","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-wildlife","11":"tag-wildlife-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}