This is the moment a huge black bear fell out of a tree when it was tranquilised after terrorising a neighbourhood for hours and stealing steak from a BBQ.<br /><br />Utility worker Chris Bertrand, 40, was at home when police warned him there was a large bear up his tree.<br /><br />Police told Chris, and other neighbours, to stay inside, as the black bear had run amok through the streets for two hours. <br /><br />It was first spotted a couple of blocks from Chris' home, and traveled across the garden, interrupted a cookout, and climbed the tree in his garden.<br /><br />The bear was tranquilised by one of the officers and, after becoming woozy, fell from the tree like a rag-doll. <br /><br />The bear was first spotted by one of Chris' neighbours at around 7pm on Sunday the 25th.<br /><br />Chris, from Darlington, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA, said: "It disturbed a cookout a couple of blocks away. <br /><br />"It even allegedly stole a steak off the grill. It ran off into a yard and then climbed the tree into mine.<br /><br />"It's the first bear anyone in the neighbourhood has seen. It's a big deal. It was in the tree.<br /><br />"The police had their rifles ready and they tranquilised it. I could see it get sleepy about 20 minutes later, at one point it was hanging on by its front claws."<br /><br />The bear was such a rarity, police and animal control services shut down the entire neighbourhood. <br /><br />Chris estimates seeing six to twelve police cars, an animal control van, two to four Department of Environmental Management officers and two vets.<br /><br />He added: "I think they handled it well. I have a nine year-old daughter, so I think they did the right thing.<br /><br />"Bears are something I think about now, even when it's just about me. I get home really late sometimes, and its dark. There are more sightings every day."
