Well, I got some great news. What is that? Well, today's garbage day and I didn't have a bear attack the garbage. They're everywhere now. Oh my gosh. Yes. I think I so I took I went over the hill today, took Coleman up and over. Oh, I got a funny bear story to tell you, too. So many bear things. So uh the theme. Right? Well, tis the season. So I looked over at one point because you know you're driving up and it gets kind of fieldy in spots. Swear to God, there was one in somebody's backyard I saw. Oh gosh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. They're just hanging, hanging out. They're on the front porch sipping coffee this morning. Somebody was telling me a story. Can't remember who the heck told me this story. This happened, I think, within within the past week, this happened. Okay. That West Elmira Police Department got called out. Okay. Somebody hit a bear, took off, but their bumper was left behind. And I'm thinking about- Wait, wait, with their driver's license? Well, that's what I thought. I'm like, of all the things to leave, I mean, okay, I understand you don't want to jump out of the car if there's a bear there, because you don't know. I mean, you kind of ticked off the bear, probably, right? Exactly. Um, but yeah, they took off. They didn't wait uh for the cops. Well, but I'm like, there's you have a license plate on usually on your bumper. But I don't think this is such a good question. I don't think I would wait either, though. Because I don't want to-of an offense to that, though. Okay, but um, my life? Okay, I'll give you that. Okay, you can have your life. So then maybe I should just go over like a couple streets over and then call the police. But it's a crowd. Or do you just sit in your car? Well, the bear doesn't have opposable thumbs to open your car together. No, but we've seen- Although the way they get into garbage cans, I don't know about that. And we've seen stories where like bears will be like racking a car. They try to get in. No way, no way, I'm not sure. So you're taking off. I'm taking off. Yeah. And okay, yeah, I'll call the police when I get home. Okay, maybe that's the way. Maybe I won't. But anyway, maybe I won't. Well, I'm gonna have to because my my bumper fell off. But still, I'm gonna call the police and say I did not feel safe, so I wasn't staying there. They can't, they cannot do it. It cannot be a hit and run. I don't know if there's an offense to hitting a bear. Like, I mean, they're certainly not endangered because they're everywhere. Well, and now I I know that we can hunt bear certain times of the year. Sure. It's not like I was trying to. No, you weren't aiming for it. Okay, what's the charge for hitting a bear? This is a great question. I don't know, but that's the story that is hanging around. Now that's the story I heard, mind you. You know, you you always wonder, but I mean, that I I laughed when I heard it because I'm thinking to myself, what your your bumper, unless you're in Pennsylvania, where I no, I think Pennsylvania, aren't you supposed to have a front plate too? Um I don't know. Who cares? I don't know. But hold on a second. I don't think there's a charge. Oh, really? There is no penalty or criminal charge for accidentally hitting a bear with your car in New York. Okay, what about a bear hit and run? Okay. You know what I mean? Like it I'm with you. I I'm certainly not getting out and checking on the bear. Right. Okay, so here's a couple things. It says hitting a wild animal is viewed legally as a quote act of nature. Oh, yeah, and you will not be deemed at fault by law enforcement for the accident itself. Now, if the bear is killed or seriously injured, this is where it comes to reporting it. Or if your vehicle sustained significant damage, you should report the collision to an environmental conservation officer, the state police, or local law. Now, under New York Environmental Conservation Law, 11-0915. Thank you. A New York motorist can legally keep the bear carcass. Okay, don't need that. What am I gonna do with that? Make a rug? No, it says to do this, you must have an officer inspect the scene and issue a free possession tag within 24 hours of the crash. Oh. Oh man. Well, there really is no crime here. Okay, I I didn't know. Me neither. So the whole thing, but when you said like, oh, it's a hit and run, it feels crimey, right? Oh, well, sure, especially when you're like, wow, I left my bumper. Right, right, right. And no. Um, do you want to know about the insurance coverage? Yeah, actually, I are they gonna deny me? Well, no. Damage to your vehicle caused by hitting a bear is covered under your auto insurance policy's comprehensive coverage minus your deductible. Well, of course, yeah. If you swerved to avoid the bear and hit an object like, I don't know, a guardrail or a tree, the claim must be filed under collision coverage, which could impact your insurance rates differently. This is really interesting, actually. It got me captivated because I had no idea. I thought there was some like, you know, DEA crime or something. Me too. Crime of passion. Just kidding. Okay, not really. Don't passionately love the bears. No, but I'm saying, like, passionately hate the bears. Yeah. I wasn't saying passionately love, I was saying passionately hate. Well, you know, when you hear passionate, you're like, Well, there's the bearskin rug again. Anyway, that's that. That is so cool. I mean, kind of. Now, what's I now I need to know. You need to remember who told you the story. I cannot remember. I'm sure it was on the soccer field. Oh, probably. And I want to know if they kept it for meat or if they kept it for a bearskin rug. Um with the amount of ticks that are going on right now. Yeah, that's gonna be gross. Right, because are you gonna fumigate the thing? Even yesterday, um Oh no. Oh, I just can't stop myself. I just can't stop myself. No, what'd you do? So remember how I stole my neighbor's wheelbarrow who's dead? Yes. And there he has no family to unfortunately like claim him. Right. Or they haven't. So he has a couple rocks in his front yard and I kind of want them. And so Zach's like, no, because this is uh this man never tells me no. He's like, well, he doesn't even say no. He goes, honey. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Yes, and I'm like, and why is that? And he's like, because there's probably ticks all over them because the grass, the guy's dead, so the grass is like up to our waist. And I was thinking more that people might realize, wait, those rocks look familiar and now they've moved four stri four houses out. Who cares? Who cares about a dead man's rocks? Oh my god. I mean, it really is that much of a crime. I stole some rocks. What are the Corning Police? Please call me and tell me. What is uh rocks? Well, there's no charge for hitting a bear. So what could rocks be? You know?