THIS is the moment a group enjoying a picnic in remote woodlands had a surprising guest – when a bear casually arrived and began munching on a sandwich.
The surreal scene, uploaded to TikTok by Kaitlyn Nesbit, sees five people sitting around a table in Maryland before a black bear settles down and is fed a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich.
It gobbles down the food straight out of the palm from the brave man who presents it, as the rest of the group remains seemingly unbothered by their guest.
Nesbitt, a 29-year-old bridal store manager, says she captured the moment on Thursday in Deep Creek where her family are staying in a cabin.
She told Caters: “This was a friend’s cabin and they said that the bear is always around and never really bothers them.
“Some of our group are used to being out in the wild so we were all told to not make sudden movements and stay where we were.
“Most of us were scared to death and filmed from the deck but the brave tested their luck.”
The group had been enjoying an afternoon filled with beer and food when the black bear sidled up to them.
It joined four men and a woman at one of the tables.
One of the men in the group grabs a loaf of bread and points his finger at the bear, seemingly telling it to wait for the sandwich to be ready.
The man then holds the sandwich in front of the bear and it slowly takes it from his hand as another person starts to prepare a second sandwich to get in on the fun.
One of the men sitting at the far side of the table can be seen taking down the stack of beers – just in case.
“This is a f***ing joke, right?” one person can be heard laughing. “He’s making her a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich.”
Nesbit said: “Eventually the momma just walked back into the woods unharmed.”
The group are seen taking selfies with their new dinner guest before the bear left.
The incident was particularly odd as bears are usually shy creatures who will often raid bins for food and not approach humans.
The group have been criticised by others on social media who warned that bears should not be fed in this manner for their own safety – and that of other humans.
In Maryland, it is illegal to feed bears as they will begin to associate people with food and become a problem or a threat for residents.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources warn that food should not be kept in places where bears could gain easy access such as in tents and that canned and dried foods should be used to limit smell.
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