I've had several bear encounters, starting with the bear that couldn't get the lid off my parents steel cooler so he ripped the bottom off, the bear that the entire state park chased through my campsite while I was standing on the picnic table watching a skunk (guess which one I was more worried about), then there was the summer of the bears at Lycogis GS Camp--we had sightings during pre camp and decided to avoid scaring the campers we would refer to bears as "Juliette Low". The first night I called out to a tent to quiet down and they replied "but there's a bear in our tent" I ran over (bear had left) and shouted to the next unit that Juliette Low was headed their way. I heard the counselor call out to one of her tents to quiet down to which they replied, "it's not us it's some idiot yelling about JulietteLow!" We had bears in camp off and on all summer, in the shower house, even on the office porch playing with the bell on the cat's collar (fortunately, the cat was not wearing it at the time)