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Alaska worker chases grizzly bear and cubs out of warehouse

By Ben Hooper
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July 24 (UPI) -- A fearless warehouse worker in Alaska captured the moment a mother grizzly bear and her cubs wandered into his work space, leading him to chase them off.

The video, filmed Tuesday at a warehouse in Prudhoe Bay, shows the man throwing items at the bears and yelling at them to "get" after they wandered in through an open garage door.

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"Last Tuesday I was in the warehouse processing a tote of battery cores. No one else was in the warehouse at the time," the filmer wrote.

"I pulled a battery out of the tote and set it on a pallet, turned back to the tote for another and looked up as a grizzly bear and two cubs were walking in the warehouse. They were between me and all exits. I began to yell at them to get out. One of the cubs ran beside me and this was concerning as mother bears are very protective. Luckily she never got aggressive toward me. I continued to yell at them as I think it's best to not act afraid and run when confronted by wildlife. I grabbed the tote lid and threw it between them to hopefully make enough noise to scare them off."

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