Adirondacks Eighth Lake Campground Bear Car Break In

8/18/2010 @ 5:05 AM we had a Bear break in to our Van while tent camping. I heard what I thought was a raccoon breaking in to a cooler. In actuality it was the bear pulling/banging/attacking on the windows attempting to break in. After about a few minutes I heard the glass shatter. There is no sound like the popping of car glass. Since there was no other close tenters around I knew it was our van. I told the wife our van was just broken in by a bear she said na... I rushed out and there was the van broken in to. Walked around to the driver side window, about 5 feet from the window I saw the bear in the driver's seat. I screamed back to the wife to keep the kids in the tent as the bear was in the van. The bear then exited the window and it filled the entire window upon exiting. Making the van shift & tilt over. It stood there looked at me then realizing that I was unsure of what to do next it began to re-enter the van. I then went back and grabbed two large chunks of wood and held it up and rushed the bear screaming at it. It began to run away and I threw the wood at the bear as it ran away. It was a full adult black bear. It was quite crazy. The State parks said it is a once in ten+ year event. So nether the less I was now known as "The bear man" and it only came with a price tag of 320 bucks for a new window. That may be reimbursed. Sorry for my sleepy out of it voice, it was a crazy morning with no coffee @ 6:00 AM.

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• Adirondacks
• Eighth
• Lake
• Campground
• Bear
• Car
• Break
• In

[callum1997cal]

oh yh a dog and windows down clever