Talk about the elephant in the room.
A cable repairman walked into the basement of a New Jersey home Wednesday to find a slumbering giant.
There was a 500-pound bear asleep on the floor.
According to NBC New York, before the Cablevision employee was given the shock of his career, the bear had been spotted wandering in the neighborhood in Hopatcong, N.J. earlier Wednesday.
It is not yet known how the animal got into the home for nap time.
State Fish and Game officials arrived to shoot the bear with a tranquilizer dart, reports NBC New York. But the bear was then wide awake and didn't go down easily. It walked a few blocks to the Missouri Trail before it passed out.
It took eight people to carry the drugged beast from the wooded area where it collapsed to a vehicle for transport.
State Fish and Game officials tell NBC New York that they plan to relocate the bear.
No one was injured.
