A woman in Daytona Beach, Florida, had the scare of her life when a bear “visited” her on her driveway last Thursday.
Gina Helsel was picking up her dog from her front porch when a bear poked its head around the corner, told the woman to local media.
The event was recorded on the security cameras of the house in which the woman’s cry can be seen when she realized the nature of the visitor.
“The bear was getting into the neighbors trash and I caught it in the act,” he joked.
When the woman entered the house, the bear also fled.
“I’m always looking for alligators, I’m always looking for snakes, and I’m really scared of, like, a coyote or something, but bears, I just don’t think about them,” the woman confessed.
In late July, Homestead authorities They caught a black bear that was wandering for more than 24 hours through a neighborhood of Homestead, in Miami-Dade, where the population was in fear.
The experts used a method as simple as it was effective: they used some donuts to attract it and thus they caught it.
Once apprehended, fish and wildlife specialists returned it to its natural habitat in the Naples area, where cypress trees abound and these animals like to live.
There are about 4,500 bears in Florida.
