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Alaska Woman Attacked By Bear While Using Outhouse
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska woman had the scare of a life time when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from listed below.
“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens informed The Associated Press on Thursday. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”
Stevens, her bro Erik and his sweetheart had actually taken snowmobiles into the wilderness Feb. 13 to remain at his yurt, situated about 20 miles northwest of Haines, in southeast Alaska.
Her bro heard the shouting and headed out to the outhouse, about 150 feet (45.72 meters) far from the yurt. There, he discovered Shannon tending to her injury. They in the beginning idea she had actually been bitten by a squirrel or a mink, or something little.
Erik brought his headlamp with him to see what it was.
“I opened the toilet seat and there’s just a bear face just right there at the level of the toilet seat, just looking right back up through the hole, right at me,” he stated.
“I just shut the lid as fast as I could. I said, ‘There’s a bear down there, we got to get out of here now,’” he stated. “And we ran back to the yurt as fast as we could.”
When securely back within, they dealt with Shannon with an emergency treatment set. They identified it wasn’t that major, however they would head to Haines if it aggravated.
“It was bleeding, but it wasn’t super bad,” Shannon stated.
The next early morning, they discovered bear tracks all over the residential or commercial property, however the bear had actually left the location. “You could see them across the snow, coming up to the side of the outhouse,” she stated.
They figure the bear got in the outhouse through an opening at the bottom of the back entrance.
“I expect it’s probably not that bad of a little den in the winter,” Shannon stated.
Alaska Department of Fish and Video Game Wildlife Management Biologist Carl Koch believes it was a black bear based upon pictures of the tracks he saw and the reality that a next-door neighbor living about a half mile away sent him a picture of a black bear on her residential or commercial property 2 days later on.
That house owner chewed out the bear however it didn’t respond. It likewise didn’t approach her however lumbered about its service, like it remained in a strolling hibernation mode.
Although it’s winter season, Koch stated they get calls throughout the year about bears being out.
And 2020 was a record year for basic bear issues in the Haines location. Factors for that, he stated, might consist of the reality it was a bad salmon run year integrated with an average berry crop. “It is also possible a bear couldn’t put on enough fat when they go in the den, that they might be out and about more often or earlier,” he stated.
Koch believes Shannon’s injury was triggered by the bear knocking at her with a paw instead of being bitten. In either case, the place may be an initially.
“As far as getting swatted on the butt when you’re sitting down in winter, she could be the only person on Earth that this has ever happened to, for all I know,” Koch stated.
No matter the season, Erik states he’ll bring bear spray with him all the time when entering into the backcountry, and Shannon prepares to alter one habits also.
“I’m just going to be better about looking inside the toilet before sitting down, for sure,” she stated.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska woman had the scare of a life time when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from listed below.
“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens informed The Associated Press on Thursday. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”
Stevens, her bro Erik and his sweetheart had actually taken snowmobiles into the wilderness Feb. 13 to remain at his yurt, situated about 20 miles northwest of Haines, in southeast Alaska.
Her bro heard the shouting and headed out to the outhouse, about 150 feet (45.72 meters) far from the yurt. There, he discovered Shannon tending to her injury. They in the beginning idea she had actually been bitten by a squirrel or a mink, or something little.
Erik brought his headlamp with him to see what it was.
“I opened the toilet seat and there’s just a bear face just right there at the level of the toilet seat, just looking right back up through the hole, right at me,” he stated.
“I just shut the lid as fast as I could. I said, ‘There’s a bear down there, we got to get out of here now,’” he stated. “And we ran back to the yurt as fast as we could.”
When securely back within, they dealt with Shannon with an emergency treatment set. They identified it wasn’t that major, however they would head to Haines if it aggravated.
“It was bleeding, but it wasn’t super bad,” Shannon stated.
The next early morning, they discovered bear tracks all over the residential or commercial property, however the bear had actually left the location. “You could see them across the snow, coming up to the side of the outhouse,” she stated.
They figure the bear got in the outhouse through an opening at the bottom of the back entrance.
“I expect it’s probably not that bad of a little den in the winter,” Shannon stated.
Alaska Department of Fish and Video Game Wildlife Management Biologist Carl Koch believes it was a black bear based upon pictures of the tracks he saw and the reality that a next-door neighbor living about a half mile away sent him a picture of a black bear on her residential or commercial property 2 days later on.
That house owner chewed out the bear however it didn’t respond. It likewise didn’t approach her however lumbered about its service, like it remained in a strolling hibernation mode.
Although it’s winter season, Koch stated they get calls throughout the year about bears being out.
And 2020 was a record year for basic bear issues in the Haines location. Factors for that, he stated, might consist of the reality it was a bad salmon run year integrated with an average berry crop. “It is also possible a bear couldn’t put on enough fat when they go in the den, that they might be out and about more often or earlier,” he stated.
Koch believes Shannon’s injury was triggered by the bear knocking at her with a paw instead of being bitten. In either case, the place may be an initially.
“As far as getting swatted on the butt when you’re sitting down in winter, she could be the only person on Earth that this has ever happened to, for all I know,” Koch stated.
No matter the season, Erik states he’ll bring bear spray with him all the time when entering into the backcountry, and Shannon prepares to alter one habits also.
“I’m just going to be better about looking inside the toilet before sitting down, for sure,” she stated.
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15 years since I've been following the news, no 10 my folks do that, hmm. what was the question again !?
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