If you ever needed another reason to NOT get too close to a grizzly bear, this video is it.
A tourist in Bacău, Romania got a little too close to a massive grizzly bear while attempting to take a photo of the wild beast.
Another tourist filmed as the woman walked closer and closer to the bear, causing the bear to lunge at the woman as a warning to back up. The woman not only put herself at risk of getting mauled to death by the bear, but she put herself at risk by jumping in and out of the busy road.
Bystanders recording from their car can be heard talking and gasping in horror. According to The Sun, in one recording the woman says, “I have to film it, look how she is holding her hand…stupid girl,” referring to the woman clutching something in her grip as she approaches the bear. Some have suggested she was trying to offer the wild creature food.
Another reportedly says, “Can you see how stupid she is? Go into the car. All that risk for a picture with a bear?”
In Romania, bear hunting is illegal and the country often issues warnings to not every get too close to a bear, and most certainly never treat one as ‘a pet’.
“I say once again to the citizens of this country: a bear which has tasted biscuits, wafers, and feels that he can get his food in this way, will never be able to adapt to the forest again,” Costel Alexe, the Minister of the Environment, said, the Sun reported.