You could argue it was a successful day for a Choteau, Montana, man who went out searching for a grizzly bear after hearing reports it was near his farm.
After all, Shannun Rammel successfully found the bear. But the grizzly, like many grizzlies, didn’t like being surprised.
Before you condemn him, it’s not like Rammel spotted the bear, snuck up to it, put on a Halloween mask, and yelled “boo!”.
Instead, the man — who has nine children and lives in the area — got word from a farmer friend that there was a grizzly near his place.
He saw some tracks at a pond and wondered if the bear might have been attracted to something in an abandoned shed.
In a horror movie, this is where the slow motion starts and the spooky music begins to play.
Because just like in a horror movie, once Rammel opened the door, chaos erupted.
Except he didn’t run into a leather-clad deranged man with a chainsaw, he ran into the grizzly. But the result was the same.
“The bear had him and was throwing him like a rag doll,” his wife Jammie told the Great Falls Tribune. “My 12-year-old daughter was standing by me. She was watching her dad and screaming her head off – ‘There’s a bear! There’s a bear!'”
She said her first inclination was to take their truck and try to run over the grizzly – which would have been a great addition to the aforementioned horror movie.
But it didn’t get to that point as once the grizzly heard the vehicle fire up, it ran away.
Jammie drove toward the shed, mentioning that she was driving slowly because she “didn’t want to run [her] husband over.”
She took her husband to a local hospital where he underwent treatment for cuts and bites to his upper body.
“When his forearm was opened up you could actually look down and see the tendons and bone,” she told the newspaper.
As for the bear, just like Michael Myers, it disappeared.
The Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Department said it searched the greater area with a helicopter.
The agency said the bear was not located “which isn’t surprising as bears will often flee an area after an encounter such as this.”
Agency officials said they will continue monitoring the situation and trapping efforts.
