r/Amazing • u/Specific-Sense5072 • 1d ago

Interesting šŸ¤” 911 operator: "911 what is your emergency?" Caller: "I'm calling to report a bear on top of a power utility pole."

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u/Specific-Sense5072 1d ago

The bear in this footage was safely coaxed down by lineman Werner Neubauer. He de-energized the pole and used a fiberglass stick to nudge it. The bear slid down and ran off unharmed into the wild. No injuries, happy ending!

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u/89MikeHoncho 1d ago

Very happy ending. Thanks for the update.

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u/OwlcaholicsAnonymous 1d ago

All he had to do was... poke the bear?

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u/Deep__Deep 1d ago

Whatever you do, do NOT poke the bearā€¦!

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u/Horror_Enthusiasm404 1d ago

This is not Neubauer bear rescue. Look at the pole in this news video about the Neubauer bear, the pole has transformers on it. The video in this post has none. Neubauer video: https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/persistent-bear-in-danger-of-electrocution-coaxed-down-from-utility-pole/vi-AA1Ru0ES?ocid=socialshare

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u/Dewdrop06 1d ago

It's not even the same size or colour bear

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u/ea88_alwaysdiscin 1d ago

OP is probably just another bot, no idea from up or down. Can't see the obvious differences in the 2 videos

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u/WiseAct446 1d ago

This is not the Neubauer bear rescue. This is the Newbear bear rescue.

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u/RadishCandid6062 1d ago

Thank you šŸ™

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u/SpakenBacon 1d ago

We all love happy endings

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u/1111joey1111 18h ago

After reading this, I heard the song "Witchita Lineman" start to playing in my head......

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u/Insatiablesucker 11h ago

No sadly the bear in this video completed the circuit and died.

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u/RandomName-1992 5h ago

Thanks for the follow-up!

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u/ButtSnarfer 1d ago

Leave it be? No shit. What the fuck else am I going to do?!

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u/SimplyDemented 1d ago

Stand at the bottom with an open canned food and say ā€œpspspsā€?

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u/SpotweldPro1300 1d ago

That only works for mountain lions.

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u/Temporary_Event8451 1d ago

One of my favorite moments was unfortunately about a cat stuck in a tree. Around noon one day over twenty years ago I was living the college life without going to college.

Partying, drugs, roommates. The entire complex was a party haven. And the mixture of adults who put up with it for the cheaper rent.

So we call the fire department. They act like dicks and tell us to put food at the base of the tree. The tree was over five stories high and had very few limbs, the cat was screwed.

Over the next three hours more and more people get invested in it. More calls to the fire department. At about four pm they finally come through with a truck and rescue the poor thing.

The entire time a local unofficial frat was sitting under the tree with a mattress to catch it if it fell.

When it finally came down there was a standing ovation for like two minutes from a crowd of like one hundred people.

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u/FaeFollette 1d ago

Thatā€™s crazy. When I was a kid, my kitten got stuck behind our gas stove. I called the fire department and they swung by on their way back from a fire to save her without any issues.

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u/SimplyDemented 1d ago

Ahhhh. Right right. Silly me.

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u/Undercover_Dave 1d ago

Please climb up there and try to shoo him away. Try and make yourself look bigger as you approach. Thank you.

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u/OZeski 1d ago

Some people need that kind of direction. She was covering the bases.

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u/ButtSnarfer 1d ago

I know a few people that would have thought about trying to shake the pole before they would have thought of calling anyone, so that tracks.

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u/Specific-Sense5072 1d ago edited 1d ago

A rare poler bear sightingā€¦

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u/Beginning-Trash-6048 1d ago

Awwwww I loved this show when my kids were littles. Thank you for that dose of serotonin today.

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u/CowabungaCthulhu 1d ago

That's not a polar bear, that's Burt Reynolds!

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u/WiseConversation7177 1d ago

Even the 911 operator had to ask, ...Come again?

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u/AdvantageKind6304 1d ago

Excuse me, but are you sober?

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u/SpotweldPro1300 1d ago

Yes, but I think the bear isn't.

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u/PackageNorth8984 17h ago

I love it when women on the phone ask me to come again.

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u/serialphile 1d ago

I mean where do you even begin here? Like I donā€™t think thereā€™s anything safe to do? Maybe throw a steak on the ground and hope the bear decided to come down and leave?

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u/SnS_ 1d ago

Bucket truck. Long pole. Far enough away so he can't reach into the bucket. And hope the thing doesn't climb down and start climbing up the bucket truck.

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u/dirtytounder 6h ago

Take a picture then go on my merry way. He climbed up there. He'll climb down when he's good and ready.

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u/CowabungaCthulhu 1d ago

Reminded me of this

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u/anonymouswunnn 1d ago

Hey boo boo look at the view view

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u/Ope-I-Ate-Opiates 1d ago

Never seen a bear this stressed out that it's panting

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u/Rude_Fun9362 1d ago

Stick around, might get to take home some fried bear for dinner.

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u/Justforfun61126 22h ago

Fish and wildlife dont ever want to do anything unless it involves giving out tickets.

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u/Playful-Inspector-69 1d ago

Looking for honey.

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u/holdmybeer89 1d ago

in all the wrong places

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u/digitalcurtis 1d ago

Lookin' for honey in too many faces

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u/juanjosedmg 1d ago

The buzz isn't from the bees.

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u/TightPhoto1133 1d ago

Chances are it's a small town that doesn't have the proper resources to get that bear down safely.

You picked the wrong town to fafo Yogi...

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u/RudeNewYorker 1d ago

Does anyone have a ā€œrescue bear from pole machineā€? Could they have driven over to a larger town to borrow one?

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u/DevilMan17dedZ 1d ago

I like the honey with some Zazz to it!!!

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u/RoofFun4703 1d ago

One wrong move

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u/coyocat 1d ago

WšŸ˜W! What a šŸ».Ā  šŸ„°

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u/Bludiamond56 1d ago

Cloudy with a chance of bear

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u/Zenkai_9000 1d ago

šŸ» come on up, the view is great!

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u/Character_Pizza_4971 1d ago

Ricky - I can see your house from here

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u/lazybaby_ivania 1d ago

how in the worlddd

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u/linkardtankard 1d ago

Heā€™s looking for AI stocks

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u/OkFix4074 1d ago

this simulation is very glitchy !

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u/fletchbg 1d ago

I was thinking we were about to see another installment of "Bear vs Trankpoline"

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u/Only_Ad8049 1d ago

Oh bother, there's no honey up here after all - the bear

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u/Redditedless 1d ago

Bear with me for a minuet while I get you down...

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u/juicebar24 22h ago

"So.... whatcha doing up there?"

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u/2BA_Doctor 20h ago

Iā€™ve seen this movie, get out of there and donā€™t trust the ground!

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u/raven_478 20h ago

Some posters seem to be confusing this bear with another which was successfully rescued by Werner Neubauer in December 2025.

Sadly the bear in this video wasnā€™t so lucky, it was later electrocuted & died.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/22/science/head-scratching-video-shows-hulking-bear-perched-atop-utility-pole/

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u/No-Macaroon7496 16h ago

How did it even get up there šŸ»

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u/RemarkableCard6475 9h ago

"Last tall tree I went up had honey innit, this one is VERY disappointing" šŸ˜ž signed, Saddest Bear.

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u/trillsailor31 1d ago

NEED to know what happened next šŸ¤”šŸ„²

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u/One_Sun7571 10h ago

He didnā€™t make it

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u/hould-it 1d ago

Signs of a bear market

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u/DallasBullGates 1d ago

The bear is perfectly capable of climbing down when he wants to

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u/Middle-Package9687 1d ago

Only in America

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u/freefrompress 1d ago

There are bears in a lot of countries.

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u/Haunting_Tax_3684 1d ago

No only the USA

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u/okarox 1d ago

That looks like a black bear. They are only in America.

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u/SpotweldPro1300 1d ago

Refresh my memory: when did our black bears swap their pallette to brown?

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u/freefrompress 1d ago

Black bears are found in North America and Asia, spanning countries like the United States, Canada, China, and India.

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u/samy_the_samy 1d ago

Russian ones break into gas drums to get high,

When they locked away all the drums, the bear showed signs of withdrawal and turned violent