B.C. man fights off full-grown black bear, saves Girlfriend

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Meeshika Sharma
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Dan Flasch , B.C. man is still shaken after rescuing his girlfriend and dogs from a black bear attack.Flasch and his girlfriend were doing laundry on the night of Oct. 21 when his girlfriend went to let their dogs, Chip and Peanut, outside. Flasch said he first heard his dogs yelp. Then, his girlfriend screamed.

Although he could hear his girlfriend, he couldn’t see her behind the full-sized black bear.

He recalls, “The bear had her front paws literally on the front step, just taking up the whole doorway."

“I didn’t have anything near me to grab, I just threw a punch at her,” Flasch said. “I had to get them away somehow.”

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He chased the bear down the street before helping his girlfriend back into the house. That’s when she told him the bear had knocked her down, scratched her, and bit her in the back.

Flasch's neighbour Glenn Wells, a Mission, B.C. resident says he saw the mother bear and her cubs in the backyard. He tried to divert them with bear bangers.

The mother bear and her two cubs were later found by conservation officers. When one officer approached the bears, the mother attacked, biting the officer in the leg.

The officer was taken to hospital and received stitches. The adult bear and her two cubs were all killed.

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