ANCHORAGE, Alaska — One moment Howard Hawkins Jr. was driving to get an early morning cup of coffee and the next he hit a large grizzly bear running at a full gallop across one of Anchorage's busiest streets.
"It is just unreal," Hawkins said Friday, less than 12 hours after his 2002 Land Rover struck the bear. "It just happened so fast. I didn't have time to react. I wasn't even able to hit my brakes or anything. What stopped the forward motion of the car is that I ran into a big bear."
Hawkins, 57, plowed into the bear shortly before 4 a.m. in what is the latest in a summer of close encounters between human and bruin in Alaska's largest city.
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Hope he didn't spill any coffee, that'd be just too much.
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This happened on one of the main roads in Anchorage. There is no hunting them within a certain distance from the city limit, and they are over running parks right now. In a town of about 200,000, there are 36 known grizzlies running around, many more black bears. I forget how many mauling there have been, at least 2 in the last month. Some groups are trying to get permission to hunt them, at least to thin them out a bit.
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Tater Nuts wrote:I think Abell hit a grizzly once. oh wait, nevermind.
Oh that was good .....thats was classic TATER
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