Posted on 06/17/2022 2:50:34 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
A 90-year-old Tennessee woman has managed to fight off a black bear outside her home — with just her lawn chair.
Altha Williams miraculously only suffered a scratch to her arm after the bear — who was with three cubs — attacked her on the front porch of her Sevierville home on Wednesday, WVLT News reported.
“It just made a lunge at me,” Williams said, adding the bear’s “face was right in my face.”
“I was just sitting here, hadn’t been here more than two or three minutes. Evidently it heard me.”
Williams, who lives near the Smoky Mountains National Park, said she used her lawn chair to try to scare the bear off.
“I’ve been praising the Lord ever since then, because I may not be here,” Williams said.
The elderly woman didn’t suffer any major injuries, but had to be treated in a hospital for a laceration on her arm.
When Williams had encountered bears outside her home in the past, she said, they usually got scared and ran off.
The bear involved in the latest encounter was eventually tracked down by the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency and euthanized.
“After the mother bear swatted at the victim, it left that area and, from what we are told, it charged another neighbor who shot it,” an agency spokesperson said.
Under state guidelines, bears who injure humans in a residential neighborhood are then put down.
“We don’t just euthanize bears based on personal feelings,” he said. “Once a bear has made contact with a person and caused injury, we have no choice but to euthanize it. It can’t be relocated.”
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Hi mom! You finally out did me taking one down with an E-tool fifteen years ago.
Seems the fly swatter was out of reach...
In Sevierville, the bears got there first.
Coming soon:
We don’t just euthanize conservatives based on personal feelings. Once a conservative has made contact with a person and caused injury, we have no choice but to euthanize it. It can’t be relocated.
Note, “injury” at this time will include trigger words.
What of the three cubs? Will my state game and fish agency find and rescue those little ones? A Momma bear feeding three cubs gets very hungry. And those little one will not make it on their own now.
Probably not. There is a very good chance they will end up badly.
I fought off a crazed pit bull with a Samsonite suitcase once.
yes, it was and they killed it. Now 2 cubs are without a Mama.
I agree. the bear population came before people.
That Mama bear should have never been killed.
Wild life that is attacking humans has to go.
I just had a link to this video and there is no article - I assume they managed to get away from the bear, but you can tell they are frightened. The one little boy says: “Should we play dead now!” (NO, JUNIOR! DO NOT PLAY DEAD!!!)
Do not go into the woods without a gun. If you can’t have a gun, bear spray is the next best thing, but I would take a gun.
Bear stalks family along hiking trail
A young family recorded a scary encounter with a bear during a hiking trip, with the parents trying to scare the animal off as it followed them along the path.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/bear-stalks-family-hiking-trail-85562704
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