A Connecticut man got here dwelling to a wild scare over the weekend, discovering a bear in his kitchen, and regardless of shooing the animal away, it returned as soon as once more the next day.
Bill Priest was working outdoors of his West Hartford dwelling Sunday morning round 11:30 a.m. when he got here inside solely to search out the black-coated bear.
“Go on! That way, go! Get out of here!” Priest mentioned in video he filmed, capturing the bear slowly and reluctantly strolling out of the home.
Priest instructed NBC Connecticut the creature didn’t take or break something. The bear had made entry by the entrance, breaking down the display screen door to the entrance entrance, he mentioned.
But Sunday’s sighting wasn’t the primary time the bear wandered onto Priest’s property. He mentioned he first noticed the bear final week breaking into his storage fridge.
“I mean, I don’t care, run around the yard all you want but now you’ve crossed the line,” Priest mentioned to NBC Connecticut.
Sunday additionally wasn’t the final time the bear would come round.
At 5:30 a.m. Monday, Priest heard noise on the entrance door.
“I thought it was my wife just checking on the front taking a look around, but it turns out he [the bear] was here,” Priest mentioned.
Priest contacted Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and a crew arrived to his dwelling to arrange a entice to humanely seize the bear with plans to relocate the animal.