One of the men in my husband's outfit on a winter day decided to go into Fairbanks, 30 miles north of the base.
It then was a state law (and probably still is) that you cannot pass by a person on foot on a highway, but *must* stop and offer assistance.
Needless to say, if they are stranded, it takes only a matter of minutes to freeze to death in the extreme temperatures there, and important to help any time of the year.
Cruising along, dark, of course, most of the winter, his headlights picked up a man with a parka on the right side of the road ahead.
Braking to a stop beside him, he leaned over and flung open the passenger door to tell him to get in - - and even faster, slammed it closed and sped away!!
The man with a parka was - a brown bear..:))
YIKES! LOL