Posted on 10/15/2007 3:41:02 PM PDT by george76
A man awakened by a bump in the night went to investigate and found an intruder, but it wasn't a burglar. Instead, Blaine Harling found himself face to snout with a black bear that had come in through an open window.
Harling, 19, has been staying at the cabin belonging to his grandparents...
"He thought it was the blinds flopping in the window from a two feet wide, by five feet high, crank-out window that he had left open for ventilation," ...
The screened window was open just 18 inches, but that was enough for the adult black bear to slip through.
"He walked into the kitchen and it was just standing there, about three feet away, in front of the refrigerator," Harling said. "So he grabbed the first thing he could which was a shampoo bottle, or a lotion bottle, something like that, and he whipped it at the bear and then he took-off back down to basement."
Harling pushed a dresser in front of the door and called Alaska State Troopers, who contacted the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The teenager also called his grandparents. After he persuaded them he wasn't joking, they told him how to unlock their gun cabinet and he armed himself with a .44-caliber and a .45-caliber handgun,
What the family believes was the same bear appeared on their deck that night. This time, all entrance point to the house were secured.
They're keeping their firearms closer in case the bear returns.
"I wouldn't mind having some bear meat in the freezer," Jill Harling said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Don’t leave the windows open in bear country!!
When I saw the title I thought this was going to be another one of those Goldilocks threads.
The teenager also called his grandparents. After he persuaded them he wasn’t joking, they told him how to unlock their gun cabinet and he armed himself with a .44-caliber and a .45-caliber handgun,
If my 19 year old grand son is trustworthy enough to stay at my cabin unattended why wouldn’t I give him the combo to the gun safe?
Sounds like the kid creamed the bear
Well, at least they mentioned the color of the bear! You wouldn’t see that if it was a burglar.
PC Correction: African American Bear
The bear are getting to be like roaches, George—four overlapping bear ranges in at least one spot here. They’ve overpopulated. It’s as warm as we’d normally expect in August, and they’re hungry. Their gatherings around the enviro-redneck neighbors’ garbage will look like herds next year.
There is no evidence the bear is a US citizen.
Of course, the police would never ask him.....
Correction: an Ursine-American.
oh and I’ve got bars now.
Bear of Color.
Correction: a Bear of Color.
I was thinking “bear of color.”
Y' sleep pretty soundly then, eh?
Last night, I shot a bear in my pajamas........
How he got in there I don’t know. ;>)
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