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VANCOUVER — Surveillance video of a British Columbia man's encounter with a large bear in his garage recently has gone viral.

When seeing how calm Alex Gold is during the encounter, one has to wonder if he would have also ordered the giant mama bear to "sit," "stay" and "rollover."

On Sept. 18, Gold was unloading groceries from the back of his car in the Lower Mainland area of British Columbia. After making one trip into his house and returning to his vehicle for more groceries, he is unexpectedly greeted by a black bear walking out of his garage.

Rather than run or scream, Gold claps his hands and tells the bear "No," as if he was scolding a dog.

The bear followed Gold around to the front of the car as Gold continued to clap while backing up. The bear did a "bluff charge," apparently in an effort to get Gold to move. But again, Gold stayed calm as he pulled out his key fob and closed the trunk of his car.

Gold then calmly got into his car and honked the horn to try and scare the bear away. At the end of the video from his home surveillance camera, a cub appears in the street, possibly looking for mom and wondering what's going on.

Since posting the video to Instagram, Gold's bear encounter has received tens of millions of views. He told a Canadian TV station he was not scared and that bear encounters are just part of living in his neighborhood.