A brown bear walked up behind that tourist on Romania's Transfagarasan road, close enough to sniff his leg, and he never noticed. He only turned when it moved into view. Then he ran for his car, and the bear followed him. Bears in public are one of the rarest ways to get hurt. Yellowstone recorded nearly 140 million visits between 1979 and 2023, and bears injured 48 people across all of it. That is roughly one injury per 3.6 million visits. For anyone who never leaves the roads and parking lots, the park calculated one in 69.7 million. Starting in 1931, when tourists hand fed bears from car windows and the park ran open garbage pits with wooden bleachers for spectators, Yellowstone logged an average of 48 bear injuries a year, plus more than a hundred cases of property damage. By 1970 the park had banned feeding, closed the dumps and installed bear proof bins. Injuries dropped to about one a year while annual visitors climbed past four million. The bears themselves did not change across those four decades. Their food supply did. Romania is running the same experiment in reverse. The environment ministry counted the country's bears using DNA and landed somewhere between 10,419 and 12,770. The state forestry authority says the one forest district around that road holds 112 bears, where the official target is 25. Drivers have been feeding them through car windows for years. Over two decades, bears in Romania have killed 26 people and seriously injured 274. That road keeps producing casualties. A motorcyclist was dragged into a ravine and killed there in July 2025. On a single day in June 2026, three tourists were bitten in two separate incidents, one of them a couple who lowered a window for a photograph. The maximum fine for feeding a bear now sits at 30,000 lei, roughly 5,700 euros. For a 2019 paper in Scientific Reports, researchers gathered brown bear attack records from three continents and found 664 cases between 2000 and 2015. Romania accounted for 131, more than any other country in Europe. Half the victims were out doing something recreational when it happened. The man in the clip did the one thing every wildlife agency tells you not to do. He ran. A brown bear sprints at 35 miles per hour, and Usain Bolt's fastest recorded speed was 27.8.