The tiny, exceedingly cute black bear cub appeared to be in distress, apparently without a mother or a winter den, but Homer resident Julian Massey knew better than to feed it. He tried to ignore it, but when it began trying to get inside his house, Massey knew he had to take action. He tells the Homer Tribune how his attempt to frighten the little cub away went terribly wrong.
At one point, the bear took a good look inside the house through a window. It climbed nine times its own height to get to the window, Massey said.
"I tried scaring him off by yelling at him when he was on the side of the hill," Massey reasoned.
When that didn't work, by the time the bear had grown more bold and climbed to his window, he realized he needed to take a more proactive approach. He jumped out his window, thinking that a little bear seeing a big man making a loud noise would run off.
"It was impulsive and it was stupid. That's when I broke my leg, shattered my knee in numerous pieces," Massey said.
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