Bear caught on camera taking trash at Ave Maria gas station

AVE MARIA, Fla.- A wild sight at an Ave Maria gas station Sunday night as one man captured a big black bear roaming around on video.

“I saw people running inside when they saw the bear and I just kept filming,” said Dion Homer.

“He looked at me, I looked at him,” said Homer who came face to face with the bear from inside his car. “He stared at me, he just grabbed the trash and ran off into the woods.”

So Homer followed the bear until it disappeared.

“It’s safer to stay in the car because I don’t know what his intentions were. He looked hungry.”

Chris Jordan, a junior at Ave Maria University, says he’s heard the bear comes around frequently.

“Oh, like just this semester alone, this is like the tenth or eleventh time. This is the second video I’ve seen.”

Just last month, security cameras captured a video of the bear in action.

“I was in the store at the time,” said Daniel Kim, the owner of the Mobil gas station. “We change the trash every night and right before he came.”

Homer says the bear sightings are like clockwork. The bear usually comes before 9 p.m., which is right before Kim empities out the trash cans.