Actually sometimes they stalk people but I guess that's neither here nor there because bear bells aren't going to help in that situation.
There was a recent death in our "backyard" though https://vt.co/news/us/details-emerge-solo-hiker-killed-by-mo... that was, clearly, the result of a planned attack by a teenage male so, perhaps, their behavior is changing.
Still, it's so rare, we don't have enough modern data.
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Actually sometimes they stalk people but I guess that's neither here nor there because bear bells aren't going to help in that situation.