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A wild, unwelcome visitor
Yes, that's two bears because they already had one, a 150-pound black bear in their kitchen that was not slopping up porridge but carrying a bag of flour in its mouth.
Despite the bizarre nature of this incident, it still falls under the category of a modern-day fairy tale.
There is a mom, Genevieve Bardwell; a dad, Sandy Liebhold; a daughter, 18-year-old Naomi, who has light brown hair and will be heading off to Smith College in the fall.
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It was a cool morning, storms having just concluded the night before, so the family left the back door open to their house to let in fresh air.
"I walked into the kitchen and saw this black furry thing in front of a counter. At first, I thought it was Naomi wearing a black sweater, but then all of a sudden this bear stands up and there's a bag of flour hanging out of its mouth," Bardwell said.
"When it saw me, it ran out of the house, dropping the flour on its way," she said.
It wasn't as if the bear showed up to ask for a cup of flour, as good neighbors sometime do. This one just walked in and took it.
"We cooked bacon and scones earlier that morning," Bardwell said. "That might have brought it out of the woods."
Naomi, who was upstairs when all the commotion in the kitchen was occurring, heard her father yell for her to get a camera.
"By the time I came downstairs, the bear was outside," Naomi said. The bear then went and sat under an apple tree before it looked at the family and walked around the pool deck.
"That's when I was able to snap a picture," Naomi said.
The family agrees that if Bardwell had not discovered the intruder, which they estimate was 15 minutes after it walked through the door, it could have caused lots of damage to the house.
"The bag of flour was on the counter and the bear just went and grabbed it," Naomi said. "If it didn't find anything when it first came in, there is no telling what it might have done to the kitchen."
Well, once the bear stopped for a few photos, it meandered back into the woods, head bowed toward the ground, sniffing out tracks that might take it to a little cabin where bowls of porridge might await.
1 LITTLE BEAR : 6/24/2009
As the saying goes.."ONLY IN PENNSYLVANIA". Hey maybe it was a test to see if The Mt. Morris Community Crime Watch was really ready. Oh well, it could've been the next generation of Smokey The Bear visiting PA to remind 1 & all "ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES".
