FOUR BLACK BEARS THREW A POOL PARTY IN THE ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST

A guy with about twenty motion cameras hidden in the Angeles National Forest pointed one at a pool of water, and the footage came back as a full bear rager. Robert Martinez, who posts as Parliament of Owls, caught three black bear cubs splashing and wrestling each other in the water while the adult tried to relax in the cool water. The adult did not get to relax. Anyone who has ever tried to sit in a pool at a family barbecue while children use your spine as a diving platform knows exactly what that bear was going through. The timing is the part that stings. Martinez says he ran into the bears himself less than an hour before their swim on September 18. So he hiked past four bears, walked out, and the camera stayed behind and got invited to the party. He has been doing this out of Glendora since 2012, which is how his greatest hits already include mountain lions, bobcats, ringtails, and one enormous black bear that knocked a toy Santa face-first into the dirt back in 2014. Fourteen years of hauling batteries into the brush for footage nobody can get any other way, and the reward is proof that the best pool party in Los Angeles County has no cover charge and no DJ.

Why you should give a shit: The bears were doing this long before anyone aimed a lens at them, and the only reason the video is this good is that the human went home first.