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Grizzly comes to town
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.
- AP
- Published: 23:47 August 23, 2008
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 on Friday, less than 12 hours after his 2002 Land Rover struck the bear. "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." Officers arrived within minutes and advised him to get back in his vehicle; he did.
At one point, the bear charged the officers, police spokesman Paul Honeman said. The grizzly made its way off the road and back into the woods, where officers found it and killed it.
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