kingston,

Actually, it wouldn't totally surprise me to see somebody with cans of bear repellent on their hat.

When the stuff first started to really show up in Montana, especially in stores around Glacier and Yellowstone Parks, some people apparently believed it was used like bug repellent: You sprayed it anywhere you didn't want bears landing, like your clothes or your kids. Some even sprayed it on their backpacking tents, and pretty soon it became evident that bears (some bears anyway) liked the taste, because they came into camp and started licking the repellent-sprayed tents!

“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck