Yes.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife workers turned to Black Sabbath to try to scare a stubborn bear out of a tree near the Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden on May 15.
They began blasting “Iron Man,” the loud, rousing metal anthem from the English heavy metal band at the black bear, which had not budged after wildlife officers had sent up a drone to buzz by it. The bear had gotten into area trash, fallen asleep in a tree before coming down and treeing itself again in another, creating a six-hour stalemate and stakeout for state parks officers.
The music had no effect. While Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne was not successful, actual darkness did the trick. The bear finally crawled down on its own at dusk.
“Black bears don’t mind Black Sabbath,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife tweeted.
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