An aging shepherd who was confronted by a bear while walking through a raspberry field near his home lived to tell his tale despite being thrown off a cliff by the animal after the two came to blows.

On Saturday, Jesus Mabalot, a 38-year-old resident of Anchorage, Alaska, went to his church's picnic at a state park campground. While there, he presumably mingled and talked with his fellow churchgoers. He reportedly drank throughout the afternoon, and, at some point, stuffed his backpack with BBQ. Then he split off from the group and biked down a nearby road, where he encountered a black bear.

A woman in West Hartford, Connecticut was attacked by a black bear Wednesday morning as she was trying to rescue her dog, which the bear was chasing.

Encountering a black bear in his backyard (while "taking a massive piss"?), intrepid Canuck Mr. Jangzter utters a few famous last words to an unseen friend: "He's a scraggly bear, man, he's not going to attack me."

A pedestrian distracted by texting had a humorous run-in with a roaming black bear in La Crescenta, CA this morning. Luckily, the man managed to look up from his LOLs and JK's and emojicons just in time to OMG and run away.

Tim Scott was snapping cellphone pictures of a wild black bear in Kentucky when it attacked him: "The bear had a really good chunk of my leg in his mouth and was shaking me." The animal is now being hunted.