A crowd had gathered at a weir because the mother and two cubs have frequently showed up there to feed during the salmon run.
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Technician Lou Cenicola reported that around 7:30 p.m. Monday, a man in a “realistic-looking” bear costume ran through a group of people standing on the side of the road bear-watching.
Sogge says getting that close to bear cubs when their mother is present could have ended tragically. The incident happened earlier this week on the Chilkoot River near Haines, says Mark Sogge, an Alaska Fish and Game biologist. An Alaska Fish and Game tech relocated the create away with when it comes to the man’s take flight and after that made an attempt to speak to he, which often Sogge says was obviously a little outside his typical job. The man then left without identifying himself.
Wildlife officials reported the incident to troopers, including the license plate number. He refused to give Cenicola his name, but the technician got the man’s license number as he drove off, still in full costume. “You figure it out”, he said before driving off.
An Alaska man sporting a bear costume found the bare necessities of life in all the wrong places – while frolicking alongside real bears.
“This is not the first time we’ve encountered a man in a bear suit”, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters told the Associated Press.
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Haines is about 500 miles east of Anchorage, near the top of Alaska’s southeastern panhandle.
