{"id":398,"date":"2026-09-29T20:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:07:35","slug":"bear-on-roof-carlisle-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"BEAR CRASHES A MASSACHUSETTS ROOFTOP! | Carlisle homeowner: &#8216;Scared the sh** out of me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up on the rooftop in Carlisle, Massachusetts \u2014 and it wasn\u2019t Santa. A homeowner went outside about <strong>8:30 a.m. Monday<\/strong> to check the noise overhead and found a <strong>bear<\/strong> climbing on his roof.<\/p>\n<p>Boston.com\u2019s Elizabeth Mehler reported that the resident posted to the Massachusetts Wildlife Facebook group, called police, and snapped photos. His post: <em>\u201cScared the sh** out of me when I went outside to see what was walking on my roof.\u201d<\/em> (Asterisks as in the original coverage.)<\/p>\n<p>Facebook did what Facebook does. One commenter: \u201cThat is frigging cool.\u201d Another: \u201cYou never know where you\u2019ll see one.\u201d And the bingo-card classic: <em>\u201cI didn\u2019t have bear on a house roof on my bingo card this month.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wildlife reminder from the peanut gallery: if your roof has a weak spot, maybe don\u2019t invite a black bear to test it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/off-beat\/2026\/09\/29\/up-on-the-rooftop-in-carlisle-not-santa-but-a-bear\/\">Boston.com (Elizabeth Mehler)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlisle homeowner: &#8216;Scared the sh** out of me&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bb-carlisle-bear-0929.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}