West Virginia's Zela Elementary School principal James Marsh was in for quite a surprise Monday morning when he unlocked the dumpster behind the school.

Take a look at what went down:

I just love how someone started to open the door and went back inside really quickly.

I would need to call in for the rest of the day to recover from the mild heart attack I most definitely would have suffered if it had been me opening that dumpster.

This happened on a Monday, so I'm curious if the bear spent the entire weekend in the dumpster.

In which case, no wonder he was so quick to hop out of there. He had probably eaten all the good garbage by Saturday morning.

Nicholas County Board of Education shared the video of the encounter on its Facebook page with the caption,

Who says principals don't deserve hazard pay????