Alaska woman using outhouse attacked by bear, from below
MARK THIESSEN
Thu, February 18, 2021, 11:02 PM CST
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below.
“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my but right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”
Stevens, her brother Erik and his girlfriend had taken snowmobiles into the wilderness Feb. 13 to stay at his yurt, located about 20 miles northwest of Haines, in southeast Alaska.
Her brother heard the screaming and went out to the outhouse, about 150 feet (45.72 meters) away from the yurt. There, he found Shannon tending to her wound. They at first thought she had been bitten by a squirrel or a mink, or something small.
Erik brought his headlamp with him to see what it was.
“I opened the toilet seat and there’s just a bear face just right there at the level of the toilet seat, just looking right back up through the hole, right at me,” he said.
“I just shut the lid as fast as I could. I said, ‘There’s a bear down there, we got to get out of here now,’” he said. “And we ran back to the yurt as fast as we could.”
Once safely back inside, they treated Shannon with a first aid kit. They determined it wasn’t that serious, but they would head to Haines if it worsened.
“It was bleeding, but it wasn’t super bad,” Shannon said.
The next morning, they found bear tracks all over the property, but the bear had left the area. “You could see them across the snow, coming up to the side of the outhouse,” she said.
They figure the bear got inside the outhouse through an opening at the bottom of the back door.
“I expect it’s probably not that bad of a little den in the winter,” Shannon said.
The lady, the outhouse and her bear bottom
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Re: The lady, the outhouse and her bear bottom
Also. What outhouse has a back door
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Re: The lady, the outhouse and her bear bottom
That would be a bit of a shock.
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Great little sleeping area but it smells like crap.
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Dewey wrote:Great little sleeping area but it smells like crap.
He was there for the corn
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greenhorndave wrote:Dewey wrote:Great little sleeping area but it smells like crap.
He was there for the corn
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I bet that was an oh crap moment!
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Good thing it was a lady, if it had been a guy it might have bit something else.
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Innit that some kind of crazy sh..?
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Re: The lady, the outhouse and her bear bottom
clandestine.misfit wrote::lol:
Also. What outhouse has a back door
Definitely a two holer outhouse!!
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We have a local DJ that airs a clip each day or crazy-dumb news etc.... he actually used this news feed Friday
That situation couldve been a lot worse!!
That situation couldve been a lot worse!!
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Happiness is a large gutpile!!!!!!!
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