The authorities didn't just charge him. They are throwing the book at him...
AUBURN (CBS) – A 76-year-old Auburn man is facing charges after killing a bear in his backyard.
Richard Ahlstrand told WBZ-TV he was stocking his bird feeder Friday
night when a bear about seven feet tall and 300-to-400 pounds started
chasing him.
That’s when he turned his shotgun on the bear.
“I didn’t have time to aim through the sights, but I aimed in
the direction of the head on this thing and I pulled the trigger before
it got to me. It just dropped,” he said.
Ahlstrand said he was carrying the shotgun Friday night because he thought he saw the bear in his yard Thursday.
“If that ever jumped on me, I wouldn’t even be here right know, I
don’t think. I know it was going to seriously maul me,” he said.
Ahlstrand is now charged with illegally killing a bear, illegally
baiting a bear, illegal possession of a firearm and failing to secure a
weapon.
Police don’t believe the bear was a threat to people.
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