An Evergreen man got a rude surprise early Friday when he went to investigate a rustling and bustling outside his house only to find a bear honking the horn in his wife’s pickup truck.

“I don’t know if a bear (poops) in the woods, but it (poops) in my wife’s truck,” said Dave Masters.

Masters says he discovered the bear in his wife’s Ford Ranger at about 1:15 a.m. after it had opened a door and inadvertently locked itself inside. In the beast’s struggle to get out, it ripped apart the vehicle’s interior.

Masters called 911 and Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies came and freed the bear.

“He wasn’t scared,” Masters said of the bear. “He was more angry than he was scared.”

Masters said there was no food in the now-totaled truck, which has left him wondering what lured it in. So far this year, he said, there have been roughly a half-dozen bear visits, far more than the occasional four-legged fur ball he is used to.

“I just kind of laughed about it,” he said. “We needed a new truck anyway.”

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