KTUU<\/a> reported, citing a JBER spokesperson.\u00a0<\/p>\nWild footage shows the young cub strolling through the commissary\u2019s automatic doors and exploring all that the mall had to offer.<\/p>\n
Barber shop employee, Kory Godbout, saw the black bear approach his store and ran to the break room. Joint Base Elmendorf Exchange<\/p>\n
The hungry bear stole and ate a piece of fruit before emptying its bowels on the hallway floor on its way out of the building.<\/p>\n
Kory Godbout, who works at the barber shop on the military base, was waiting for his first customer of the day when he spotted the furry intruder traveling through the automatic doors.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy coworker, who is cutting hair in front of me, she yelled, \u2018Bear!\u2019\u201d Godbout recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The grizzly bear decided to \u201cuse the restroom in the hallway\u201d of the shopping mall. Kory Godbout<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I looked up from my phone and the bear was walking into the barber shop right in front of me,\u201d the barber said. \u201cAnd we all ran into the break room and shut the door behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a few minutes, Godbout and his coworkers emerged from the break room and followed the out-of-place bear into the commissary, where it took a peach from the grocery store and ate it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The barber recalled that a few onlookers were \u201cgoing big to try and scare\u201d the bear out of the grocery store.<\/p>\n
The bear cub stole a peach and ate it while exploring all that the commissary had to offer. Joint Base Elmendorf Exchange<\/p>\n
But all of a sudden, the black bear returned to the barber shop.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy that time, we were able to run back to the shop and then lock the door,\u201d Godbout said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bear cleared its bowels on the floor before leaving the shopping mall. Facebook<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then we were watching him from the window and then that\u2019s when he decided to, you know, use the restroom in the hallway.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officers from Conservation Law Enforcement attended the peculiar grizzly scene and were able to direct the wild animal towards a river and into the woods, according to the JBER spokesperson.<\/p>\n
JBER\u2019s wildlife program manager Colette Brandt said in a press release that the bear had triggered the automatic doors and that Sunday\u2019s events were entirely incidental, KTUU reported.<\/p>\n
While there has been a decline in bear-related calls since the military base installed bear-resistant dumpsters, seven bears have been put down at JBER for public safety over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can bearly believe it! A black bear was caught on camera seemingly running errands at a local shopping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3292,1147,19122,18379,4379,79,183674,194,201],"class_list":["post-754372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alaska","tag-animals","tag-bears","tag-cute-animals","tag-military","tag-science","tag-shopping-malls","tag-us-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}