A video of a bear coming face to face with a man relaxing in his backyard has gone viral. The doorbell footage shows a man named David Oppenheimer using his phone while relaxing in a chair as a huge bear walks up beside him.
Both the bear and the man seem startled by each other for a moment before the animal runs away.
The moment was captured with David Oppenheimer’s ring camera at his home in Asheville, USA.
“I looked behind me and saw nothing,” David Oppenheimer told DailyExpertNews, “but about a minute later the bear came by and was practically in front of me.”
The video quickly went viral and surfaced on social media platforms.
Watch the video here:
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The video collected thousands of likes and several comments. One user commented, “This encounter could have had several different outcomes than this one… but thank goodness it’s the best outcome for this guy.”
“Black bears rarely attack. Like 1 and a million chances. Just so everyone knows,” said another user.
“I’m not sure who was more panicked. The bear or the man. I’m sure the bear also had a story to tell his family and friends,” the third user commented.
“Something similar happened to me when I was relaxing by my campfire just outside of Yosemite. I looked up, there was the bear, but he just kept wandering and went into the woods. I tried to follow him, but he was too fast and too quiet,” the fourth user shared.
The fifth user quipped, “My husband saw life whizzing through his head like a movie, but he was still ready to make a move with his pillow, but Beary didn’t buy it and broke up!”
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