Saw those ears like ooooo new thing to herd

he actually did by sending him to the second weird looking sheep on wheels

In the last 126 years there was only 61 possible legitimate cases of an american black bear killing a human, and even some of those cases have been called into question. American black bears are some of the most passive animals, they hate confrontation and will basically always flee. Even if hungry and even if their babies are in danger. The scariest thing they will do is bluff charge while vocalizing and the run off.

Out for a run one early morning, still dark, and I hear something running up behind me. No time to think I turned around, made myself big, arms spread out and high, and yelled as deep and as loud as I could. That poor Yorkie turned around and yipped all the way back to its house where I could see the owner on the porch shaking her head at me.

So, you might surprise yourself. I certainly did.

This being hell would explain a lot.

It gets easier when you do more of the shooting yourself and don't rely on Smoke so much. Turns out all you had to do was catch the train AND shoot people on a moving train.

Also, there are some missions in that game that are sensitive to your framerate I believe. I know Stowaway was one, but I'm not sure if it also affects this one (due to the whole thing where being on top of a moving vehicle in San Andreas can make an NPC's hitbox move... less than smoothly).

I seriously thought that my part about an "off-leash bear" would be indicator enough that my comment was sarcasm, but obviously not. I think I buried it too deep in too long of a joke.

Definitely a joke, but not without foundation

Yeah, it's sarcasm. Hence the "off-leash bear" and that a bear outpacing you would cause emotional damage. But it seems I did a pretty shitty job of making a joke.