SHAWNIGAN LAKE, Canada - A black bear caught lingering outside a classroom in Canada was scared away by a music teacher armed with a trombone.
The animal was spotted on May 27 outside St. John’s Academy Shawnigan Lake on Canada’s Vancouver Island. Video recorded by Makayla Mitchell at the private school shows the bear lingering on a wooden structure containing a garbage bin.
At first, a science teacher tried banging on a door to scare the bear away, Mitchell told Storyful. While the loud noises initially startled the bear, they didn’t prompt the animal to leave.
Eventually, the school’s music teacher, Tristan Clausen, can be heard in the video blowing on his trombone — leading the black bear to quickly scurry away."Rural teaching: I just chased a bear away with a trombone," Clausen posted to Facebook that day."That may just mean your trombone playing is kind of scary," one responder quipped.