NEWPORT, Pa. -- Officials say a bear attacked a couple inside their central Pennsylvania home, sending both people to a hospital.
Pennsylvania Game Commission spokesman Jerry Feaser says the attack happened Monday morning in Oliver Township. He says the couple's dog was outside and ran into the home, followed by the bear.
Feaser says the man inside the home was scratched and bitten and a woman was attacked as she tried to chase the animal away.
Emergency dispatchers say both were taken to Harrisburg Hospital with unspecified injuries.
State police in Newport directed inquiries to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Oliver Township is near Newport in largely rural Perry County, about 20 miles northwest of Harrisburg.
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If a bear breaks into a home, the occupants should have the right to defend themselves. But please, people, do yourselves a favor and dispose of your garbage properly so hungry bears aren't enticed.
I hope you enjoyed your trip to the park. I can remember seeing 50 bears on one afternoon drive. I am well aware of leaving food accessable to bears. I even had one in my dads car years ago. We live so close we often drive to Old Faithful just for an icecream cone.
The fact is that the bears recovery has been so sucessful that the habitat is saturated and they are staking territories outside the park. Two weeks ago an archery hunter, outside the park, was mauled less than 7 miles from where I was. This summer one person was killed and eaten on the Mary Lake trail and another was mauled seriously in a different area.
I have spent many days in the park remote areas via saddle horse and pack horse. I am aware of the dangers from bears. We do not stop to pet them or even take their pictures from a distance like so many of the tourists. You can't even imagine the will power it takes not to run when you are close to a bear and he has you in his sights. Think about that. I would feel so much safer when they invent pepper spray with a range of about 75 yards as opposed to the 15 foot range that is available now. Like I read in a story about WWII, "Only the laundry would know how afraid you would be in that situation." Best wishes, be careful.
"You skin that one, and I'll go catch us another one!" lol.
Hope the people are OK.
Being right but dead.....where does that get you?
A tombstone I guess.
I guess they could put on the tombstone......
"Here she lies....
Killed dead by a bear......
She's gone on to heaven.....
So now you who read this...
Run from bears and PETA.
I guess you could not kill it and let it kill you....then you wouldn't take the risk of getting cited.