A 17-year-old girl stood very still when a black bear approached her at a mountain lake in California as a friend filmed the encounter.
Kimberly Mendoza and the friend were at Lake George in the Mammoth Lakes area when the encounter occurred, as reported by Tony Spitz from Veuer.
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When the bear grabbed her leg, Mendoza lightly pushed it away and then slowly walked towards her friend. The bear eventually turned and walked away as well.
As the bear approached, the two had no clear way out as they were blocked by fallen tree branches, and they did not run away for fear of being chased by the bear.
Mendoza admitted to Spitz that it was a “pretty scary moment.”
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