A bear was walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy 40 at Donner Summit, Truckee, CA), when two cars also crossing the bridge, scared the bear into jumping over the edge of the bridge. Somehow, the bear caught a ledge and was able to pull itself to safety.(Click on each image to enlarge)
Authorities decided that nothing could be done to help Saturday night so they returned Sunday morning to find the bear sound asleep on the ledge.
After securing a net under the bridge, the bear was tranquilized, fell into the net, lowered, thenwoke up and walked out of the net.
Yep, he took a nap and sure enough the situation took care of itself while he was asleep.
The moral of the story is that when confronted with a bad situation sometimes the best solution is to take a nap.
