‘He went to our back door and he looked out the window there,’ said Patti Mackenzie of a late-night visitor to her store in Pincher Creek — a large black bear. (Courtesy Patti Mackenzie)
Mackenzie says it didn’t appear the bear intended to break in and thinks the animal might have been spooked.
“He was looking in the front door and he wasn’t doing anything wrong, just having a little look. And then, all of a sudden there’s these bright lights. It had to have been a vehicle. The next thing you know, on the cameras you just happen to catch the bear’s butt, running up the aisle in the store,” she said.
“Then he came to the back of the store. He went to our back door and he looked out the window there. Then he just strolled on down the next aisle. He wasn’t rushing, he was just having a little look around. And then he must have went back out the hole. Thank heavens.”
A few minutes later, the camera picked the bear up across the street, heading east.
“He did not disrupt a thing, besides the window,” said Mackenzie.
She thinks a passing car must have turned the window into a mirror and the bear charged its own reflection, right through the double-paned window.
Const. Dennis said he isn’t aware of any other bear sightings in town this year, but they aren’t unheard of.
“We did have a bear hanging around here last year, but I thought the game wardens dealt with it. I know they trapped it, but often they come back,” he said.
“It’s probably been hanging around town, or not too far from town, for some time and got quite used to people.”
As far as Const. Dennis knows, this is the only store in Pincher Creek that this bear has broken into. And he doesn’t believe it was intentional. “There was nothing in there for a bear to want.”
“I believe something spooked the bear and it bolted and ran through the window.”
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