You have to see this! Bystanders at ski resort get dangerously close to bear
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NO, NO, NO — An intense bear encounter was caught on camera last week and it’s one of those videos you feel you can’t look away from until you know how it ends.
The video was taken by Svitlana Shyliakova in Whistler, British Columbia. She appears to be a safe distance away from the scene as she watched the heart-stopping moment unfold.
She reportedly said she was returning to her hotel in the British Columbia resort town when someone warned her about the bear.
Footage shows a bear walking around outside in front of businesses and a handful of people can be heard talking in the background. The bear first passes by one man sitting on a railing then another man, who appears to be filming the encounter, casually approaches the bear.
The bear lunges at the man, who responds “Ohhh!” and then growls at the bear right in the animal’s face.
“Leave him alone!” people shout at the man.
Another voice says, “Get out of his way!”
Other people are also standing only feet from the animal and instead of taking safety precautions, you guessed it — they’re recording the encounter on their phones. Some people are even barely standing inside a room watching the bear with the door wide open.
“Of course, we had no plans to get close, and we even had bear spray with us just in case,” Shyliakova mentioned. “Luckily, we didn’t need it.”
The one-minute video ends with the bear walking off in the opposite direction it came from.