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An Alaskan woman suffered the scare of her life when using a latrine in a rural area and a bear attacked her from below.
“I went out there and sat on the toilet and something bit my glute just as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I jumped up and screamed when it happened.”
Stevens, his brother Erik and his girlfriend had snowmobiled into a wilderness area on February 13 to stay in his yurt, about 20 miles northwest of Haines in southeastern Alaska.
Erik heard the scream and went to the latrine, which was about 150 feet from the yurt. At the scene he found Shannon, who was treating the wound. At first they believed that she had been bitten by a squirrel, a mink or something small.
Erik took his miner’s flashlight with him to see what it was about.
“I opened the toilet seat and there was a bear head there at seat level, looking through the hole right at me,” I pointed out.
“I closed the lid as fast as I could. I said, ‘There’s a bear down there, we have to get out of here now,’ ”he added. “And we ran back to the yurt as fast as we could.”
Once safely inside, Shannon was treated with a first aid kit. They determined that the injury was not that serious, but they would go to Haines in case it worsened.
“It was bleeding, but it wasn’t super bad,” Shannon stated.
The next morning they found bear tracks all over the property, but the animal was gone. “They could be seen in the snow, going to the side of the latrine,” he added.
They assume that the bear entered the latrine through an opening under the back door.
AP
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