Government bureaucrats love telling Americans how to handle dangerous situations.
They sit in their air-conditioned offices writing up guidelines for problems they’ve never faced.
But wildlife officials gave one piece of advice that nearly got this Florida man killed.
Alexander Rojas followed the “experts” and paid the price
Alexander Rojas was just trying to get to work at 4 a.m. on August 15 when he spotted two juvenile black bears running across his front yard in Apopka.
Ring doorbell camera footage shows what happened next – and it’s exactly what you’d expect when someone follows government advice in the real world.
Rojas tried yelling at the bears to get them to go away, which wildlife officials call “hazing.”
But instead of fleeing like the experts said they would, one of the bears spun around and charged straight at him.
“For some odd reason, he turned around, did more stutter steps towards me and bit my arm then clawed my rib cage,” Rojas told WESH. “I was able to kick his feet out and knock him in the nose.”
The young man fought off a wild bear with his bare hands after trying to follow what wildlife officials recommended.
The brutal reality of following government guidelines
Here’s what the wildlife officials didn’t mention in their fancy brochures – sometimes the bears don’t read the manual.
Rojas ended up with puncture wounds, lacerations, and possible nerve or tendon damage in his forearm from the bear’s bite.
He needed stitches and was given both tetanus and rabies shots.
The 23-year-old technician doesn’t have health insurance and now faces mounting medical bills.
He may have sustained nerve or tendon damage in his forearm from the bear’s bite, and doctors recommended him to a hand surgeon because he has little function between two fingers.
“I had three immediate options: attempt to open the door while a bear was still within five feet, run left where another bear of similar size was approximately 30 feet away, or run right toward the woods where the mother bear could potentially be,” Rojas explained on a GoFundMe page set up by his sister.
Think about that for a second.
This young man had to make a life-or-death decision in seconds while being charged by a wild bear in his own front yard.
Wildlife bureaucrats scramble to cover their tracks
After Rojas got mauled following their advice, did the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission take responsibility?
Of course not.
They’re calling it a “human-bear incident” – like it was some kind of mutual misunderstanding between Rojas and the bear.
Mike Orlando, the agency’s Bear Management Program Coordinator, issued the standard bureaucratic response: “The best thing people can do if they see a bear in an unexpected area is to give them plenty of space and to never approach or feed them.”
Wait a minute.
Rojas didn’t approach the bear – he was leaving his own house for work.
He didn’t feed the bear – he tried to scare it away by yelling, which is what wildlife officials suggest as a “hazing” technique.
The bears came to him, on his property, and attacked when he followed official state guidance.
But somehow it’s still his fault in the eyes of these bureaucrats.
Look at who’s really paying the price here
You want to know what this really shows?
It reveals how government agencies operate when their advice goes wrong.
Rojas is now staying in an RV at his parents’ home because he’s afraid to return to his house.
His girlfriend heard him screaming as he fought off the bear.
He’s looking at thousands in medical bills for injuries he sustained following state-approved wildlife management techniques.
Meanwhile, the bureaucrats who gave him the dangerous advice are collecting their government paychecks and issuing press releases about “human-bear incidents.”
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says they placed a trap to try to capture the bear – after it nearly killed someone.
But here’s the kicker: even if they trap the bear, Rojas says he won’t return home.
“I just don’t want to put my family in that situation,” he said.
So let’s recap what happened when a hardworking American followed government advice: he got mauled by a bear, racked up medical debt he can’t afford, and had to abandon his home.
This is what happens when bureaucrats play with people’s lives
The timing here isn’t coincidental.
Florida is preparing to reinstate bear hunting for the first time in a decade this December.
Suddenly, bear encounters are becoming more “frequent” in residential areas.
Wildlife officials have been downplaying the danger for years, telling folks that bears are “typically quiet and shy animals” and that attacks are “very rare.”
Tell that to Alexander Rojas.
Tell that to the 89-year-old man and his dog who were found dead in Collier County in May – the first fatal bear attack in Florida’s recorded history.
The pattern is clear: government agencies give out feel-good advice that sounds reasonable in meetings but falls apart when regular Americans face real danger.
These bureaucrats don’t live in neighborhoods where bears break through fences.
They don’t have to make split-second decisions about whether to yell at a charging predator.
They just write the guidelines, collect their paychecks, and blame the victims when their advice backfires spectacularly.
Alexander Rojas trusted his government to give him sound advice about protecting his family and property.
Instead, he nearly got killed following their recommendations.
And now he’s the one paying the price – financially, physically, and emotionally – while the experts who gave him dangerous guidance face zero consequences.
That’s your tax dollars at work, folks.
¹ WESH, “Moments before bear attacks man outside his front door caught on doorbell camera,” August 27, 2025.
² USA TODAY NETWORK, “Doorbell camera captures moment when bear attacked Florida man leaving for work,” August 27, 2025.
³ Erin Keller, “Florida man thought it was a good idea to yell at bears to ‘haze’ them away from his house. It wasn’t,” The Independent, August 26, 2025.
⁴ FOX 35 Digital Staff, “Apopka man fights off bear attack as Florida readies first hunt in decade,” FOX 35 Orlando, August 23, 2025.
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