A Southern California woman was startled to find a black bear who successfully opened her car’s door and began rummaging through it, and the entire encounter was caught on video.

The woman, Natalie K., resides in La Crescenta and says that this incident occurred Monday afternoon after she picked her daughter up from school.

Everything seemed normal; Natalie and her daughter went inside and went about their business for about five minutes when, to her surprise, she heard someone honking her car's horn.

As it turns out, it was a black bear.

“While inside my car, he destroyed the upholstery of my car seat, ate Pop-Tarts and honked the horn,” Natalie said. “Only after the horn honked did I come outside to see the bear in my car. He did not immediately run out...he just stared at us and did

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