Girl fights bear in viral video: The internet is dumbfounded at the courage a 17-year-old girl in California, United States, showed when she charged towards a wild bear all by herself to protect her dogs. And with her bear... err - bare hands, she pushed the mother bear off the fence.
A video of the incident, which took place in the girl's backyard at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, has gone massively viral online.
In a follow-up TikTok video, the girl identified as Hailey Morinico seemed to be as bewildered as netizens who watched her tackle the bear. "I go over to the bear. I look it in the eyes, and the first thing I think to do is push it, push a bear, push an apex predator, man," she said.
"I don’t think I pushed her that hard, I just pushed her enough to make her lose her balance," she said. In the viral video, Morinico can be seen rushing back in with her dogs after shoving the bear, who climbs the wall and makes away.
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Girl Fights Bear With Bare Hands. But Has A Message: "Don't Push Them"
After a stray black bear, with her two cubs in tow, wandered near Morinico's home, her four dogs ran out to chase them away. The commotion nearly scared the wild beings off but the mother bear stayed back, leaning over the wall and taking swipes at Morinico's pets.
The big bear managed to pick up one of the puppies, which is when Morinico ran out of the house full speed. "The dog that the bear grabbed, she's the baby. I have to protect the baby," she told NBC LA. "In that split second, I decided to push the bear, like it was nothing, apparently."
Morinico's heroics even caught the eye of superhero Captain America, Chris Evans, who gave the video a nod exclaiming, "This is insane. Zero hesitation."
It turns out Morinico hadn't even known it was a bear prowling in her backyard. When her dogs began barking at the beasts, she thought there were other strays outside, or at best, a squirrel.
Now that the incident is behind her, the teen has some wise words of caution for those gaping at how easy it was for her to shove off a bear. "Do not push bears,” she says. “Don’t do what I did, you might not have the same outcome."
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