Brave 11-year-old stops charging bear; week of crazy bear incidents continues
GovernmentHunting July 1, 2017 Lee Leschper
It’s been another week of crazy Alaska bear stories and more attacks.
Thankfully no one has been seriously injuried or killed, after two black bears killed young people in Anchorage and in the interior.
Elliott Clark, a young Hoonah boy, prevented a potential really bad mauling and killed a brown bear with a shotgun, after the bear charged a group of fishermen. The 11-year-old was one of two armed people in the group and cooly used several shotgun blasts to dispatch the sow brown bear.
http://juneauempire.com/news/2017-06-30/armed-11-year-old-boy-saves-fishing-party-charging-bear
The funniest incident, which has gone viral online, was a young black bear wandering into a Juneau liquor store and checking out the store’s candy offerings, before being shooed out the door.
In another Juneau incident, a man walking a dog near the city’s airport and Dredge Lake was charged and tackled by a black bear, but was miraculously not injured by the bear, which seemed more interested in the dog.
An Anchorage family got a real scare, and a lucky break, when a black bear crashed into their home through a basement window one night this week. The youngster sleeping in that room escaped injury too, but got quite a start to awake with a bear looking over him.
