A St. Anthony woman says she’s glad she didn’t know just how close a polar bear got to paying an unwelcome visit to her home until after the bear was long gone.
Danny Keats captured his neighbour Bobbie Stevens’ close encounter on surveillance video and his son Kenneth has been sharing it on social media.
Bobbie says she was on the couch when her dog alerted her to something going on out by the door.
She went to the door thinking there was someone there, and when she opened the door to look out, she was staring in the face of a polar bear, “and the polar bear was beautiful” she laughs. Fortunately, she didn’t take too long to take the scene in, closed the door and called 911.
Bobbie says it wasn’t until she saw the surveillance video showing the bear climbing onto her roof, that she got scared.
The bear climbed up and walked across her roof, which she says is a worry because the roof is old and she’s not sure how it held the animal’s weight. She joked with her granddaughter that had “If Tommy hadn’t put one more nail, then the bear probably would have come down through.”