{"id":1924486,"date":"2023-05-04T19:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-black-bear-surprises-principal-after-jumping-out-of-school-garbage-container\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T19:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:44:41","slug":"watch-black-bear-surprises-principal-after-jumping-out-of-school-garbage-container","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-black-bear-surprises-principal-after-jumping-out-of-school-garbage-container\/","title":{"rendered":"Black bear startles principal by leaping out of school trash bin."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-black-bear-surprises-principal-after-jumping-out-of-school-garbage-container%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1924486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>West Virginia School Principal Gets Up Close and Personal with a Black Bear<\/h2>\n<h3>Who Says Principals Don&#8217;t Deserve Hazard Pay?<\/h3>\n<p>James Marsh, the principal of Zela Elementary School in West Virginia, got the surprise of his life when he went to unlock a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-black-bear-surprises-principal-after-jumping-out-of-school-garbage-container\/\" title=\"Black bear startles principal by leaping out of school trash bin.\">large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-women-dont-need-abortion-to-be-equal-with-men\/\" title=\"No, Women Don\u2019t \u2018Need\u2019 Abortion To Be Equal With Men\">trash container<\/a><\/a> on Monday. As he unlatched the lid, a black bear poked its head out of the receptacle, sending Marsh running for cover.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was caught on surveillance footage and shared on Facebook by the Nicholas County Board of Education. The clip shows Marsh coming face to face with the bear, which leaped out of the dumpster after he had unlocked a bar over the trash container.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a big surprise. I was not expecting that,\u201d Marsh told WSAZ 3. \u201cYou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fans-trash-fairgrounds-after-kid-rock-cancels-at-the-last-minute\/\" title=\"Fans Trash Fairgrounds After Kid Rock Cancels At The Last Minute\">throw trash<\/a> in a dumpster and you throw things in it, but you really don\u2019t expect things to come out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the scary encounter, Marsh said the clip of the bear has since gone viral at the school, with the kids calling it \u201chilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Bear and the Principal Were Equally Surprised<\/h3>\n<p>Marsh thinks the whole incident was \u201cequally\u201d surprising to both him and the bear. \u201cWhen you\u2019re that close, they don\u2019t seem that friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After he unlocked the container, Marsh could be seen taking off running \u2014 but another person standing by an open back door also quickly reversed course and closed the door, leaving the principal to deal with the hairy situation alone. The bear then ran off out into the nearby woods, and the person unlocked the door and directed the school principal to come inside.<\/p>\n<p>In the later portion of the clip, both Marsh and the person by the back door appeared to be catching their breath and noting to each other just how scary the situation had been.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch the Video Here:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtenews\/status\/1123862382389471232\">A school principal was quick on his feet after a surprise close encounter with a bear in West Virginia. James Marsh was unlatching the lid of the bin outside the Zela Elementary School in Summersville when he came face-to-face with a bear that was trapped inside. The surveillance\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/gMqu4ctty7<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Principal James Marsh had a close encounter with a black bear in West Virginia<\/li>\n<li>The bear was trapped inside a large trash container<\/li>\n<li>Marsh was caught off guard when the bear poked its head out of the receptacle<\/li>\n<li>The incident was caught on surveillance footage and has since gone viral at the school<\/li>\n<li>Despite the scary encounter, Marsh and the person by the back door were able to escape unharmed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t mess with the principal of Zela Elementary School, he&#8217;s got some serious survival skills!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia school principal James Marsh got quite the surprise when he went out to unlock a large trash container on Monday \u2014 a black bear poked his head out of the receptacle, sending Marsh running for a hiding spot. In a clip shared on Facebook by the Nicholas County Board of Education, the principal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1924487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8259,25748,4212,25861,17942,3924,25862,6862],"class_list":["post-1924486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bear","tag-bin","tag-black","tag-leaping","tag-principal","tag-school","tag-startles","tag-trash"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}