Simsbury, conn. (AP) – Sarah Loving had just returned to the lunch house last Saturday with her husband and two young people …
Simsbury, Connecticut (AP) – Sarah Loving had just returned to the lunch house last Saturday with her husband and two young children when she looked out the window and spotted two bears that cross her backyard in Simsbury, Connecticut.
His fauna visitors did not really surprise him. In recent years, the bears have been quite common in Simsbury, a suburban community of 24,500, located about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northwest of Hartford, where overturned trash cans are often along the road on the “Poubelle day” after a bear rummaged inside for a snack.
But when one of the bear stopped in the wooden game game of his family and started to climb the stairs, Loving began to film. What came next, took it by surprise.
“He arrived at landing, then descended the slide, as he had already done,” she said. In the video, the bear slips the head nonchalantly, its front legs breaking its fall in a pile of soft sand downstairs. The bear is then lying there for a few seconds, calmly looking around.
Loving said that the pair was hanging around a few minutes before switching to the courtyard of its neighbor. Their appearance lasted about 10 minutes.
“They seemed so comfortable on the game landscape,” said Loving, whose family moved to Simsbury about two years ago, not knowing that they could cross the bears. “We just continued to joke that they were probably previously, but we haven't seen a bear get off before, never. It was a first.”
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