Nov. 20 (UPI) — A cashier at a Family Dollar store in Pennsylvania was in for a surprise when a panicked 11-year-old boy ran in through the front doors, pursued by a bear.
Cole Frazee said he was outside the Family Dollar store in Markleysburg while waiting for his father to finish shopping when he spotted the bruin.
“I was like, ‘I’m probably going to get eaten by a bear,'” Frazee told KDKA-TV. “When it runs after me, I turn around, I run in the store, I’m screaming and stuff. The thing was like a foot and a half away from me. I took a left and the bear went straight.”
Frazee and the store’s cashier jumped up onto a counter to keep watch on the bear’s movements.
“She grabbed her coat, the keys and the phone and we ran out of there. When we ran out of there, we all got in the car,” Frazee said.
Surveillance footage shows the bear climbing atop the same counter Frazee had been occupying just moments earlier. The bear finally left the store on its own accord after about 10 minutes.
A Family Dollar employee said there was no major damage to the store, and no one was injured during the incident.
“It was definitely a crazy experience,” Frazee said.