Alaska woman bitten by bear while in outhouse
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 19, 2021
Imagine seeing a black bear staring back at you while looking down at a toilet seat in an outhouse. (Photo courtesy of the Michigan DNR)
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska A new rule for going to the bathroom in Alaska: Check for bears before sitting down.
A woman using an outhouse in the state’s backcountry got a very unexpected an unpleasant surprise when she was bitten on her rear end by black bear moments after she sat down, according to khns.org.
“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens tells the Associated Press. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”
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Print article A bear injured a woman’s backside while she was using an outhouse last week on a backcountry trip in the Haines area, local public radio station KHNS reported. Shannon Stevens was staying in a yurt on Chilkat Lake for the weekend with her brother, Erik, and his girlfriend, the radio station reported. After the three made sausages for dinner over an open fire Saturday evening, Shannon Stevens went to use the outhouse, according to KHNS. “Normally, when we are out there in the summer or the fall I’m used to shouting ‘Hey, bear!’ the whole way. It was the dead of winter, so I didn’t think to do that this time,” Stevens told KHNS. “I got in there and sat down on the toilet seat, and something just immediately bit me in the butt. I jumped up and screamed.”
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