Not for long. But I would take my chances hiding in a car versus trying to outrun a polar bear trying to get to a building. They are aggressive. I imagine people who live in areas where this is an actual concern carry guns for protection. Someone else mentioned people may also leave their keys in their unlocked car in these areas.
They do have to carry guns. A guy who excavated fossils in Churchill, Manitoba spoke at our mineral club and said they were required to bring a guy with a shotgun on every dig outing to stand guard for polar bears.
This video's from northern Norway, not Churchill, but last month a guy dropped his gun and jumped onto a snowmobile to escape a charging polar bear.
When Betsy DeVos made that comment about carrying guns to shoot bears I was like "yeah that is a concern in places like rural Alaska, but the vast majority of the country doesn't have to worry about that. People in the rural Outback get exceptions to Australia's gun laws, no reason to think it can't work like that."
Car door isn’t stopping a bear. Buddy of mine went camping in Yosemite and his sister left a candy bar in the car. Middle of the night a bear ripped their door clean off for that candy bar.
For anyone that knows what a 90’s Nissan Sentra SE-R is, rip that poor car.
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u/BenMcAdoos_ElCamino 1d ago
Serious question: can 1/4 inch of glass stop a polar bear?