90-year-old Tennessee woman Altha Williams fights bear with lawn chair

https://nypost.com/2022/06/17/90-year-old-tennessee-woman-altha-williams-fights-off-bear/ ^ | June 17, 2022 | Emily Crane

[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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[American Number 181269513]

Great job fighting that bear. You did well.

[SantosLHalper]

Why did the bear have a lawn chair?

[17th Miss Regt]

Black bear lives matter.

[Hambone 1934]

That must have been some lawn chair!!!!!!!!!

[roadcat]

Why did the bear have a lawn chair?

Because the writer wanted it to have it, and the editor was lazy. Reporters are so incompetent these days. Next time I see a bear with a lawn chair, I'll panic.

[EvilCapitalist]

Was the bear trying to steal Altha’s picnic basket?

[mikey_hates_everything]

Watch, the idiot in the WH or his Haitian mouthpiece will use this to show why guns aren’t needed.

[rktman]

Tough gal. Were there any cars damaged during the incident?

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[Mears]

Bfl

[skepsel]

Huh?

[wardaddy]

Pardon?

[Nea Wood]

I don’t know how that post ended up in a thread about a bear, but it was a danged fine post!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Nice post but I think the bear was a natural born American. :)

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[Flick Lives]

Why did the bear have a lawn chair?

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It goes with the pic-a-nic basket.

[MayflowerMadam]

I’m a couple hours from where this happened. After we moved here it didn’t take me long to realize that he TN women are amazing. My quilting group was made up of several tough over-70 gun-totin’ ladies. I told Hubby that it would be OK if I were at quilting when the SHTF. Those ladies can take care of business.

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[Mears]

Thanks..at age 89 I thought the dementia was finally kicking in.🤪