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Subscribe to RSSA TV weatherman about to go live with his forecast was chased off his outdoor set -- by a mama bear and three cubs.
"They walked right up on me," a breathless Kurt Aaron told the news anchors at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pa., Monday night.
The anchors, Scott Schaffer and Sharla McBride, started the segment by scrambling to figure out what was going on.
"I don't blame him," McBride said on hearing that Aaron had fled indoors.
"I blame him, he has a job to do," joked Schaffer.
With the camera rolling and the black bears walking on the set alone, Aaron described his ordeal from indoors.
"I ran like I stole something, I'm not going to lie," he said.
"Look how big mama bear is," he added, as the largest of the four bears walked onto the station's "Garden," an outdoor setting at the base of a mountain that was lit up for the late night broadcast. "Don't worry, honey, I'm not doing the weather out there."
Several viewers had fun with the segment in their comments on the WNEP website.
"Of all the nights to fall asleep before the newscast. Bummer," posted one.
"Anybody check Kirts pants," asked another.
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All of a sudden I didn't care so much about watching a weather forecast, just wanted to see the bears. They looked nice and healthy.
Beautiful bears, it's that time here in PA that they are going to start roaming around. We get them in the woods behind our house from time to time.
For great info & pictures of bears go to www.bear.org. You will love this site, it is provided be the North American Bear Center, & has many streaming video's of bears in their natural habitat along with a ton of educational information. Also see www.bearstudy.org, another great site from the same people.
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Lol, I liked the backyard too! Who cares about the weather, show some more bears.
That shot wasn't of "two bears," but rather it was a shot of a mother and her cub. The mother could have made mince-meat of the 'weartherman.' In any case, the picture of the bears was better than a local weatherman, yawn.
Gawd, listen to these talking heads. All local news heads sound and look alike whether they are in PA or AZ. I never watch local news because it's so predictable and quaint. The bears added a needed upgrade to a mediocre broadcast.
da bears...or if your from floriduh ...duh bears...
Never mess with a mamma bear who has cubs. She will eat you for lunch!
We had a bear and cub in the wood behind our development. A woman got a camera and tried to get a closer shot than from her yard. Brilliant! The bear took off after her but she made it back into the house. Notice later posted back by the mailboxes about bears and what not to do. Just remember-The woman in question votes and it counts the same as yours does. Need I say more?
What no Yogi and Boo Boo jokes?
lmbo glad newscaster was ok but at 10 ft away running was not a smart move it could have triggered her hunting in skintks one hit from her paw could have killed or at least hurt him bad she did not see him has a harm to her cubs who she would have attacked . we have had black bears in our yard but not that close love all wild life
If you're going to write an article, get the facts correct. It was Trish Hartman and Scott Schaffer anchoring. Sharla McBride is a sports anchor who happened to be with Kurt Aaron, the meteorologist. The outside weather set is called the Backyard.
That weatherman had absolutely no right being outside. That is the bear's territory. Stay inside where you belong.
But... the weather is outside....
: ) Hey, I'm just going by what I have been told to do by our AR folks. Weather? Who needs weather. Overrated.
My old ABC station I used to watch before I moved. I miss the backyard and the bears.
The funny thing about that is one of the morning crew put in a fish from his son. Don't know what kind, but the fish was missing this morning.
Why are they showing weather? I don't care for this but beautiful garden in the backyard with water fall and beautiful bears. I thought they were going to show bear chased them away but nothing. Pffttt.
Why didn't he just "grin and Bear" it????
Television news would be much more tolerable if this happened more often, although I suppose we'd still be able to hear the anchors' idiotic babbling that passes for news these days.