A young black bear was caught on camera roaming through a shopping mall in Anchorage, Alaska, stealing a piece of fruit and using the restroom in a hallway.
A black bear was caught on camera seemingly running errands at a local shopping mall in Anchorage, Alaska over the weekend. A black bear in Alaska strolled through the automatic doors of the commissary mall on the military base on Sunday.
Wild footage shows the young cub strolling through the commissary’s automatic doors and exploring all that the mall had to offer. Joint Base Elmendorf Exchange The hungry bear stole and ate a piece of fruit before emptying its bowels on the hallway floor on its way out of the building.
Kory Godbout, who works at the barber shop on the military base, was waiting for his first customer of the day when he spotted the furry intruder traveling through the automatic doors. The grizzly bear decided to “use the restroom in the hallway” of the shopping mall.
“And I looked up from my phone and the bear was walking into the barber shop right in front of me,” the barber said. “And we all ran into the break room and shut the door behind us. ” After a few minutes, Godbout and his coworkers emerged from the break room and followed the out-of-place bear into the commissary, where it took a peach from the grocery store and ate it.
The barber recalled that a few onlookers were “going big to try and scare” the bear out of the grocery store. Joint Base Elmendorf Exchange“By that time, we were able to run back to the shop and then lock the door,” Godbout said.
“And then we were watching him from the window and then that’s when he decided to, you know, use the restroom in the hallway. ” Officers from Conservation Law Enforcement attended the peculiar grizzly scene and were able to direct the wild animal towards a river and into the woods, according to the JBER spokesperson.
JBER’s wildlife program manager Colette Brandt said in a press release that the bear had triggered the automatic doors and that Sunday’s events were entirely incidental, KTUU reported. While there has been a decline in bear-related calls since the military base installed bear-resistant dumpsters, seven bears have been put down at JBER for public safety over the past year. A black bear in Alaska strolled through the automatic doors of the commissary mall on the military base on Sunday.
Barber shop employee, Kory Godbout, saw the black bear approach his store and ran to the break room. The grizzly bear decided to"use the restroom in the hallway" of the shopping mall. The bear cub stole a peach and ate it while exploring all that the commissary had to offer. The bear cleared its bowels on the floor before leaving the shopping mall.
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