We left him there and went the other way: he was eating garbage. Sadly.

We took hickey and walked community path to the shelter, then coffee shop then gas station for rolling papers then no more bears and home. Billy was with me.

UPDATE

I feel terrible that I did not go back home after seeing the bear on our street to alert brian to him...He would have loved to see him. And I knew it. But I did not go home. Lazy. Now when i saw how disappointed at having missed him, i feel filled with remorse.