Just had 2 HUGE brown bears break through my fence 10 minutes ago. They then proceeded into my neighbors yard where one picked up a soccer ball left in the yard (I'm not kidding).
This is really starting to [censored] me off. City/division of wild life says sorry, we can't do anything until they harm someone. "can I shoot them and take care of the problem myself?" Nope, against the law. 
OK then, let 2 500 lb bears roam a heavily populated and congested area.
OK then, let 2 500 lb bears roam a heavily populated and congested area.
I've had a decent size black bear approach me in my woods a couple springs ago and it is a bit upsetting. It came within 40 yards or so just checking me out. The scary part was that it could hear me a mile away but still came that close. I've since read that I should've scared it off but at the time I just backed out of the woods to my house and went to load a couple slugs into the shotgun in case it came up after our chicken coop, it didn't
We haven't had any problems since then but I do listen abit more carefully out in the woods.
Probably a good tactic if the bears return is get a crossbow with some rubber tipped arrows, or maybe judo points although I wonder if they might penetrate. An arrow bounced off the noggin with 80 ft pounds of energy might give the bear a reason to go somewhere else...
I guess if you are really serious, you walk out there with your gun, yell at the bear to leave, and if it comes toward you then you are justified in defending yourself. I would have some serious firepower though for that game, no handguns, and you would have some explaining to do to the authorities.
Ian
Good luck with Cutler!
I don't know if they are black or brown bears. The ones we've had this year are 1) 
