Dave Chernosky heard a commotion early Friday morning in the Aspen, Colorado, house where he’s staying with his twelve-year-old twins. “I laid in bed thinking, ‘I really hope this isn’t a bear,” he told CNN. “I figured it probably was, but I was sure hoping for something else once I got into the kitchen.”
It turned out, his worst fears were fact. The large black bear, estimated at four hundred pounds, was standing at the refrigerator when he entered the kitchen. The animal had opened drawers and cabinets and thrown stuff around the room.
Chernosky was able to keep the kitchen island between them as he tried to coax the bear into the garage to get it outside the house. His plan worked, but the bear became spooked when Chernosky hit the garage door opener and came back into the house. Chernosky was worried that it would head downstairs where his kids were sleeping.
That’s when he encountered the bear face-to-face. “We looked at each other, and he just smacked me in the side of the head and spun me around and got me again on the back,” he said. “I literally heard it crack on my head. A bear paw is not soft and cushy.”
Despite his injuries, he was able to scramble away and scream at the bear to leave. “Fortunately, he was done at that point and just left,” he said.
Officials with Colorado Parks and Wildlife were able to find the bear and euthanize it. “We never like to have to put an animal down, but the protection of the public is paramount once a bear begins entering homes and responding aggressively…
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