CODY, Wyo (Reuters) - Just two days after a rare fatal mauling by a mother grizzly in Yellowstone National Park, a black bear interrupted the taping of a television news segment on bear safety.
The odd close encounter on Friday featured a group of kayakers assisting a hiker in her effort to avoid the bear, and was captured on video by a visiting cable news crew.
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(Park spokesman Dan) Hottle had taken the news crew to Joffe Lake, a five-minute drive from park headquarters in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming.
As (Yellowstone bear biologist Kerry) Gunther was about to demonstrate how to use a concentrated pepper spray designed to deter bears, someone nearby sounded the alarm about the bear, Hottle said.
Thereby ruining a perfect chance "to demonstrate how to use a concentrated pepper spray designed to deter bears!" Almost like the bears had planned it!
UPDATE - this seems like an appropriate place to remember this:
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