Polar Bear Breaks into Home in Alaska Village

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Photo Credit: AP/Dan JolingRuby Kaleak’s part-time job is keeping polar bears away from people in a village on Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast, so she was prepared when one of the biggest bears she’s ever seen got inside a house. . .

She and a co-worker spotted the polar bear inside 81-year-old Betty Brower’s home in Kaktovik, a village of 300. It was eating seal oil from a drum.

Kaleak carries a shotgun loaded with beanbag and firecracker rounds, but she and a co-worker shooed the bear away.

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