Watch The Moment A Montana Woman Fights Off A Moose With Bear Spray
The short version: A Montana doorbell cam caught a woman bear-spraying a charging moose, reminding us how normalized constant home surveillance has become — footage we should think about before it's networked into something bigger.
Our Take
Credit to WKOW 27 News for surfacing this clip: a Big Sky, Montana homeowner, Shelly Thorburn, used bear spray to drive off a charging moose and get her dogs — including a deaf, visually impaired 14-year-old pup — back inside safely. It's a genuinely wild moment, and nobody got hurt. Good for her.
It's not our usual beat, but the footage itself is worth a second look. A decade ago, this encounter would have existed only in Thorburn's memory. Today it exists because a camera bolted to her doorframe is always recording, always uploading, always ready to be shared with a news station or a neighborhood app. That's the quiet backdrop to almost every viral "watch this" clip now: ubiquitous, privately-owned cameras capturing public and semi-public space 24/7, often feeding into company servers and sometimes into law enforcement requests, with the people walking (or in this case, charging) past having zero say in it.
A moose fight is harmless entertainment. But the same always-on camera logic, scaled up and networked — doorbell cams, license plate readers, facial recognition — is exactly how mass surveillance infrastructure gets normalized one feel-good clip at a time. If you want to see how far that infrastructure has already spread in your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you'd rather push back than just watch, start with our take-action page.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WKOW 27 NEWS, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.