A Connecticut man endured a memorable weekend after a bear entered his dwelling a number of instances.
Bill Priest, who lives in West Hartford, instructed NBC Connecticut that he was working in his yard on Saturday morning simply earlier than midday when he re-entered his dwelling to discover a native bear lurking in his kitchen.
“Go on! Go on!” Mr Priest yelled on the bear, trying to usher it out of his dwelling. The bear retreated slowly and departed the house with out taking or breaking something, and Mr Priest believed that the episode was over. But at 5:30 on Monday morning, Mr Priest heard a noise — and, after a brief investigation, decided that the bear had returned.
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Mr Priest, who stated that he had seen the bear the week prior when it was trying to interrupt into his storage fridge, was displeased.
“I don’t care if you roam around our yard all you want,” Mr Priest stated. “But now you’ve crossed a line.”
The bear’s days of roaming freely round Mr Priest’s property and yard are doubtless over. Following the third incident, Mr Priest contacted the Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection so {that a} crew might arrange a entice for the bear, seize it, and relocate it away from the neighborhood.
The NBC report contained interviews with neighbors who stated that bear sightings have turn into more and more frequent of their space. One neighbor stated that the incidents at Mr Priest’s dwelling have been “scary, but not surprising.”