The age-old question of who would win in a fight -- Minnesotans or a black bear -- was almost answered Tuesday afternoon in Centerville when a young black bear out for a stroll gave a group of teenagers a fright.
The interaction between the beast and Hailey Nelson, 17, and Dori Arndt, 15, was caught on a doorbell camera. It shows the two teenagers gardening outside their friend Hailey Nyberg’s home, WCCO-TV reported.
Nelson said that she first mistook the bear for Nyberg’s dog.
“We wanted money, so we decided to go pull some weeds and we’re just pulling some weeds, just talking, listening to some music, turn our heads and it’s just a black lab,” Nelson said.
Then fear kicked in as she realized that it wasn’t the dog.
“It was a bear!” Nelson said.
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The video then shows the two girls jumping to their feet and running inside the house as soon as the bear makes its way into the driveway.
“So I’m pounding on the door saying, ‘Let us in!’ Screaming our heads off, just wanting to get inside! Then [Hailey Nyberg] pokes her head around the corner,” Nelson said, to WCCO-TV.
Brian Nyberg, Hailey’s father, pulled Nelson and Arndt inside before warning his own daughter to take cover.
Hailey was unaware that the beast had walked into their front yard as she came around the corner once she heard her friends yelling.
“I heard them screaming and my dad came outside and is just like, ‘Why are you still out here? A bear just walked pass our … front yard!’ I’m just like, ‘What?’” Hailey Nyberg said. “And then he’s just like, ‘Get inside!’”
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Briand thought that girls were just being attacked by bees when he first heard them screaming.
“I think both Hailey and I, we heard the screaming, we both thought, you know, they maybe got into a yellow jacket nest,” Brian said. “They were just terrified, screaming, and the pounding on the door was so fast.”
The video has received a lot of attention on social media amassing more than 37,000 views and while it may have been terrifying in the moment, now they look back and laugh.
“The looks on their faces as they were running, kind of priceless,” Brian said.