Seeing how bears are invading Missoula from all sides (or, humans are increasingly encroaching on bears’ habitat, depending on how you want to look at it), it’s now only a matter of when, not if.
Case in point:
Black bear tries to come inside Missoula airport
How to fend off black bear (Though I still think this is a hoax. Seriously, who runs in jeans?)
Grizzly bears moving out of high country, into town
Huson woman fends off attacking bear with zucchini
Chicken coops around western Montana attracting more bears to town
Bear safely removed from downtown Missoula
Brutus the grizzly bear learns to swim in city pool (OK, this was in Helena, not Missoula, but it only indicates that no one is safe, anywhere. Not even at our childhood havens.)
And of course, the always-classic “Bear vs. Trampoline”
Squirrel Thoughts 