KATE SNOW, CNN ANCHOR: In Colorado, a wild bear was looking for adventure. Chris Ornelis (ph) of our affiliate KKTV has the play-by- play.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's 25 feet south of the motorcycle officer.</s>CHRIS ORNELIS, KKTV CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The 'Copter 4 crew helped guide wildlife officers from the air during a bear chase that lasted for hours. The acrobatic black bear scaled fences of all sizes and varieties, galloped across gardens.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And jumped over a six-foot fence into the neighbor's back yard. It was awesome.</s>ORNELIS: And streaked trough the yards in the Cherry Knoll subdivision of Centennial.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We immediately called 911, and then started having a little fun with it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's running westbound.</s>ORNELIS: Neighbors sought the safety of rooftops for a bird's eye view of the action, but the nimble 110-pound bear could have easily joined them, as she tried desperately to escape. Wildlife officers loaded dart guns with tranquilizers and managed to hit the bear a few times, slowing her down.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kind of seemed kind of crazy to chase a bear with a stick, but it worked out.</s>ORNELIS: But the final tranquilizing blow came from</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once I got close enough to the bear, I jammed it in his rear quarter, and a few minutes later it went down.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was quite a surprise to come home and find 500 people in my front yard and a bear.</s>ORNELIS: The neighborhood got a closeup look at the slumbering ball of fur, as wildlife officers checked her over. She was tagged for the first time and loaded into a truck for the ride home, hopefully for good.
Bear on the Loose in a Colorado Suburb