Posted on 07/14/2007 11:33:58 AM PDT by george76
Gladys Clark is thinking she ought to get herself a slingshot so she’ll be ready the next time a bear comes for breakfast.
At 91, Clark admits she’ll have to practice, but she was handy with one when she was an eastern Montana ranch girl riding the range.
On Sunday morning, Clark pulled open the sliding glass door on her log home along Rock Creek in Red Lodge to let in some fresh air. She went upstairs to get ready for the day. When she returned downstairs, a large black bear was standing with its paws on a counter and rummaging through the kitchen cupboards.
She said she screamed, ‘‘What are you doing in my kitchen? Get out of here.’’
‘‘I screamed and I kept screaming at him and he looked back at me over his shoulder and then walked around the little kitchen table and out the door,’’
The night before, downstream on Rock Creek, Janis Frank, 80, had a bear help itself to the contents of her cupboards after breaking through a storm door to get inside. Frank was outside on the front porch when the bear let himself in. When she ran around the back and saw the mangled door, she figured it was a bear and ran to a neighbor’s house to call 911.
With a game warden’s help, the bear was evicted, but not before it ransacked Frank’s kitchen.
‘‘He opened the refrigerator door — smart bear — and had dumped the food out and ate what he wanted and left an awful mess,’’ ...
Bear sightings have been common this spring and summer up and down Rock Creek, said Kevin Nichols, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks game warden in Red Lodge.
(Excerpt) Read more at mtstandard.com ...
That must have been quite a shocking sight!
was he Catholic?
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