A Connecticut man came home to a wild scare over the weekend, discovering a bear in his kitchen, and despite the animal running away, it returned the next day.
Bill Priest was working outside his West Hartford home Sunday morning around 11:30 a.m. when he walked in only to find the black-coated bear.
“Go on! That way, come on! Get out of here!” Priest said in a video he filmed, slowly capturing the bear and reluctantly leaving the house.
Said the priest NBC Connecticut the creature did not take or break anything. The bear had entered through the front, breaking through the screen door to the front entrance, he said.
But Sunday’s sighting wasn’t the first time the bear had entered the priest’s property. He said he first saw the bear last week going into the cooler in the garage.
“I mean, I don’t care, run around the yard all you want, but now you’ve crossed the line,” Priest told NBC Connecticut.
Sunday wasn’t the last time the bear came either.
At 5:30 a.m. Monday, Priest heard a noise at the front door.
“I thought it was my wife just looking at the front looking around, but it turns out he [the bear] was here,” Priest said.
Priest contacted the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and a crew arrived at his home to set up a trap to humanely capture the bear with plans to relocate the animal.