Video Shows Man Using Paintball Gun Against Bear Hidden Under House

A man armed with a paintball gun in California successfully evicted a huge bear living underneath an unoccupied home in California.

Toogee Sielsch uploaded a video of himself going into a crawlspace in Lake Tahoe, California and shooting paintballs at a stubborn bear who wouldn’t leave.

The entire ordeal was even caught on tape.

Watch the moment it went down here:

Armed only with a paintball gun, a nature enthusiast braved a close-quarters encounter with a huge bear to “evict” it from underneath an occupied home in South Lake Tahoe. pic.twitter.com/9PjwZLJAZk

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 29, 2023

Video shows moment bear emerges from under home after being shot at with paintball gun https://t.co/8Hbu1c3B3J

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 29, 2023

Per Fox 2 Detroit:

“If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s black, fight back. If it’s white, goodnight”. That’s generally the way to remember what to do if you encounter a bear. A nature enthusiast had to do exactly that when a black bear was squatting inside a California house.

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Toogee Sielsch had a problem when he home to the cabin in South Lake Tahoe – a huge black bear decided the crawlspace would be the best place for a long winter’s rest. Sielsch, however, disagreed.

Armed with only a paintball gun, he crawled into the crawlspace to evict the bear from the home.

The footage showed Sielsch starting by pointing his paintball gun with a flashlight into the dark crawlspace. He then crawls inside the home and fires eight shots.

Then the massive black bear comes running out of the crawlspace, with witnesses nearby talking about just how big the bear was.

Man chases squatting black bear from crawlspace with a paintball gun https://t.co/mvooNSwnUv

— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) December 29, 2023

Per The Daily Mail:

Shocking footage captured the moment a daring nature enthusiast evicted a bear from under a home by shooting the bruin multiple times with a paintball gun.

Toogee Sielsch, an environmentalist in South Lake Tahoe, California, shared a clip of himself this week descending into a crawl space in an outlandish – and successful – attempt to move the bear from under an occupied home.

The video opens with Sielsch hunched by an opening of the crawlspace, pointing his paintball gun into the darkness in preparation.

‘Don’t even THINK about doing what I did there unless you have YEARS of training and experience,’ he warned.

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Shocking video shows a bear crawling from underneath a house after being shot at with a paintball gun EIGHT times: Nature enthusiast shooter insists massive creature was unhurt https://t.co/dp8cCCUJ6K pic.twitter.com/sIJCdwQh9b

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) December 29, 2023