In all seriousness, do not try this at home. Waking a sleeping bear can be VERY dangerous.
We mock what we do not understand, and few careers are as complex as the EMT-Engineer on the CFD. In this short clip, we can see what happens when the stresses of delivering firefighters to emergencies, meets a Cubs game on TV. The Big Guy goes down.
Luckily, he recovered gently. No one was injured in the filming of this incident. This could have become as ugly as the Crocodile Hunter trying to tame a wild beast. Caution is advised whenever handling sleeping savages.
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Turn the volume up at the 25 second point, you can hear him moan, “Cubbies.”