Bear interrupts graduation ceremony in California

  Eyewitness NewsBAKERSFIELD, Californina (WABC) -- A young bear that got a little too close for comfort to some school kids in California, and it was all caught on tape.

Surveillance cameras captured the bear scampering around in Bakersfield near two schools that had to go into lockdown after he was spotted.

One of the schools was in the middle of its graduation ceremony which had to be temporarily halted.

The bear was finally cornered inside an apartment complex.

He was taken away and released back into the wild.

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