Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Sheriff's deputies in California came to the rescue of a bear cub trapped in a motel's dumpster while its sibling tried to open the container from the outside. The Placer County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a motel in Kings Beach, near Lake Tahoe, early Tuesday morning and found a bear cub trying to break into a dumpster while its mother paced nearby. Advertisement The deputies discovered a second cub was trapped inside the trash container. Deputies pulled up to the dumpster in a patrol vehicle and used a pole extended through a window to lift the lid, allowing the trapped cub to climb out. Read More Colorado couple get into 'boxing match' with home-invading bear New York state man defends trash from hungry bear Family's rental vans raided by bears outside Tennessee rental home