This housemate is utterly unbearable.
A California homeowner has been desperately trying to evict an unwanted guest from his property — a 500-pound black bear that’s moved into the crawl space beneath his house.
Ken Johnson, of Altadena, became suspicious of a furry squatter when he noticed trash cans knocked over and bricks dislodged around his property. So, he set up motion-detecting surveillance cameras to alert him of the creature’s every move — and catch the culprit in the act.
The footage revealed the uninvited guest was actually a hulking black bear, which squeezed its body into the 2.5-by-2.5-foot crawl space — coming and going as it pleased.
The bear was also caught going down the driveway, through garbage bins, and tearing out bricks.
“I see wildlife here all the time, but I’ve never had my crawl space torn up,” Johnson told The Post on Monday.
He first noticed his crawl space was destroyed in June and put a camera there, but didn’t know the culprit was a bear until last Tuesday.
On Saturday, the beastly bruin briefly emerged from his comfy new digs and popped out again Sunday night for about 20 minutes, Johnson said.
“It’s scary when I don’t know where it is,” said Johnson, who was met with growling and hissing sounds on Friday when he was trying to change the batteries on the camera.
To make matters worse, Johnson is stuck in a bureaucratic limbo. He contacted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, but “all I did was get the run around to go to a website to file a report about the bear online.”
Johnson filed the report Monday morning.
“I hope they can coax it out or shoot it with a tranquilizer and haul it away, but I don’t see that happening,” he said.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Johnson anticipates having to take matters into his own hands — by using sweet dinner rolls to lure out the animal and then bear-proofing the crawl space with pepper spray-covered sandbags.
“It’s very unnerving, especially when I hear him rumbling around below my kitchen,” he said.
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