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Posted: May 21 2008 at 3:01pm | IP Logged Quote Paula in MN
Have you ever looked out your window to see this running towards your kids?



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Posted: May 21 2008 at 3:04pm | IP Logged Quote Maddie
ahhhh! That actually DID happen to me in Culpeper, VA. Good pic!



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Posted: May 21 2008 at 3:05pm | IP Logged Quote Paula in MN
The best thing about the whole incident?

I made sure to grab the camera

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 3:17pm | IP Logged Quote Sarah M
Wow- Paula! That's nutty! Good picture, you crazy lady. I can't believe you remembered to get out your camera!
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Posted: May 21 2008 at 3:24pm | IP Logged Quote Maryan
Oh.my.goodness.

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 4:29pm | IP Logged Quote joann10
We have had this happen, only the kid outside ran inside yelling, "there's a bear in the yard". He then grabbed the youngest child available and ran back outside so he could show the bear to his little brother.
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Posted: May 21 2008 at 4:36pm | IP Logged Quote amyable
Wow!!

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 4:40pm | IP Logged Quote Matilda
OH MY GOODNESS PAULA!!!!! It was running towards them? What did you do?

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 4:57pm | IP Logged Quote Cay Gibson
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OH MY GOODNESS PAULA!!!!! It was running towards them? What did you do?


She ran in the house and got her camera, silly.

I know what you mean, Matilda.

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 5:21pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
PAULA!!!! You are kidding, right??? Was that bear actually running towards the kids? What happened????

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 5:37pm | IP Logged Quote Maddie
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PAULA!!!! You are kidding, right??? Was that bear actually running towards the kids? What happened????


Yeah!... you can't just post a picture and say the bear was running AT the children without giving more info...

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 6:30pm | IP Logged Quote ElizLeone
Yikes! Haven't had that experience yet on this side of the Mississipi!

You are very handy with that camera; I just would have been panicked!



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Posted: May 21 2008 at 6:58pm | IP Logged Quote Paula in MN
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She ran in the house and got her camera, silly.


Yep. As all good bloggers would!

Actually, I was already in the house. We had been filling bird feeders and I came in to tidy up while the kids and my 3yo niece played outside. I could hear the kids yelling and the dogs barking - typical sounds - and didn't think anything of it until my son screamed "mmmmmooooooommmmmmm - bbbbbeeeeeaaaaarrrrr". I started screaming at the kids to get in the house - I'm sure they heard me in the next county.

The bear stopped -- turned and looked.at.me. - then changed direction. It ran through the stream and took off into the next field. By then I had the camera focused and got a few pictures.

My children now understand why they need to stay close to the house when playing outside alone. My mother now understands why I want to carry a gun when mowing the lawn.

My husband is mad that he wasn't home at the time...

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 6:59pm | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
There was that one time rough-camping in Canada when I was 12...but the bears were way more interested in food than they were in us.

But the photo begs the question: What happened next??

Kudos for getting the photo. I would have done the same thing.

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My mother now understands why I want to carry a gun when mowing the lawn.





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Posted: May 21 2008 at 7:01pm | IP Logged Quote ElizLeone
Wowie-Zowie!

So how remote is your location?

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 7:10pm | IP Logged Quote Paula in MN
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Wowie-Zowie!

So how remote is your location?


There is a town about 20 miles North and another one 23 miles South. The highway is a litle over 2 miles to the East, as the crow flies. However, our land is bordered on two sides by over 3000 acres of wildlife management!

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 7:15pm | IP Logged Quote ElizLeone
Wow, Paula. It sounds like pure bliss (despite a bear scare here and there)!

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Posted: May 21 2008 at 8:44pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
Glad to hear it was headed the other way!LOL!
There is nothing quite like the feeling of hearing one of your kids scream "mmmmmooooooommmmmmm - bbbbbeeeeeaaaaarrrrr"
I remember it well from our summer in Kodiak. Luckily our bear was much more interested in someone's stringer of salmon than in us.
Our first Kodiak bear siting

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