A Scottish tourist was scratched by a bear when it crashed into his car window on a Romanian motorway on Monday, but managed to shoot the not-so-friendly furball out before it slashed his arm. succeeded in.
A 72-year-old woman was cruising along the winding Transfagarashan Highway in the Carpathian Mountains with a friend when she spotted two brown bears climbing along the side of the road.
She rolled down the window to take pictures of the cute children. Then one of them reared up on her hind legs, stuck her nose out of her opening, and traced her.
“I just wanted to take a picture of him,” the woman told a local reporter from her hospital bed. according to the mirrorHe added that his arm hurt from the attack.
“We were in the car trying to take pictures, and the bears came to the window.”
Her friend managed to drive away before the bear could do more damage.
The tourist was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the Mirror reported.
Romania has seen a number of frightening encounters between bears and humans in recent years, making the issue a hot topic in the country.
The country has up to 8,000 brown bears within its borders, more than any other European country except Russia. According to Politico.
In the five years from 2016 to 2021, there were 154 bear attacks on humans, resulting in 14 deaths, the newspaper reported.
The issue has become so hot that some political hopefuls are adding efforts to increase hunting quotas to the ticket.
