Posted on 03/22/2021 6:08:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
The bizarre story, with some truly crazy visuals, emerged from Nizhnevartovsk in Western Siberia this week. Locals were puzzled after they witnessed a brown bear roaming the streets downtown in the morning. The animal was very out of place, given it’s a pretty big city with some 280,000 residents and no forests nearby.
The footage, caught on camera by eyewitnesses, shows a man clearly aware of the bear while anxiously talking to somebody on the phone as it gets ever closer. After quite some chase, the man then makes a successful break by crossing the road and setting up his pursuer to be hit by an oncoming bus.
Luckily, the story resolved more or less positively for everyone involved, including the furry guy – or rather gal, as the bear was later revealed to be female. She wasn’t seriously hurt by the vehicle’s impact, thanks to the bus driver’s swift reactions and good brakes, and was soon tranquilized and taken away by the animal control team, which quickly arrived at the scene.
According to local media, the bear was not a wild species, but a captive pet, and had been kept by its owner at the nearby hotel. The police are now investigating how it managed to escape and whether its living arrangements had even been legal to begin with. A second bear was reportedly found in a cage at the same hotel.
not wild, just a captive pet :)
HE didn’t know that, though!.................
“Here comes a bear! RUN!”
“You can’t outrun a bear!”
“I don’t have to outrun the bear; I only have to outrun YOU!”
They're called 'Gopniks'.
Couldn’t sleep last night, so I stayed up, made coffee, and watched the 1976 movie, “Grizzly.”
Yeah. I see a bear coming at me, I’m pooping my pants, shrieking like a girl and firing every round I have into it’s face.
Russia has Kia dealerships.
Maybe the bear was just looking for a new car.
If you've been chased by a bear outside of a Kia dealership.......you might be a Russian Redneck!
I dunno... that picture of the bear in front of the Kia dealership makes it look way too big for it to be a pet and it boggles the mind that two of them could be in a hotel room.
I can hear that conversation on check-in... “I see on the website that you do allow pets.... “
Finland has rednecks too! (With good enough English to have pun name.)
Check out “Steve & Seagulls”
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does a bear poop in a hotel?
Any place he dang well pleases!.....................
Putin would have killed the bear with a knife. Biden would have slipped on the sidewalk and crapped himself to death.
Yes, he was ordering human sushi............. to go.................
There is a Russian man fighter who, along with his bro used to hunt bear with spears. His nickname was the last emperor or something like that. Can’t remember his name now. He reigned Supreme in. Mma for a long long time.
This is what happens when you are on a cell phone and not paying attention.
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