<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1655494107032,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017a-bf0a-d0ae-abff-bf4b55780000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1655494107032,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017a-bf0a-d0ae-abff-bf4b55780000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_55294706", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1030146"} }); ","_id":"00000181-7323-d082-a1ad-7bfb534c0000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedAn elderly Tennessee woman fought off a bear Wednesday with a lawn chair as her only weapon.
Altha Williams, 90, was attacked by a black bear on her front porch, according to a report.
The bear was with three cubs, she said.
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“It just made a lunge at me,” Williams told WLVT News.
The animal’s “face was right in my face,” she continued. “I was just sitting here, hadn’t been here more than two or three minutes. Evidently, it heard me.”
Williams, whose house is near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, used her lawn chair to fend off the bear, she said.
“I’ve been praising the Lord ever since then, because I may not be here,” Williams said.
The only injury the woman suffered was a laceration on the arm.
The incident was not the only attack the bear was involved in, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency.
“After the mother bear swatted at the victim, it left that area and, from what we are told, it charged another neighbor who shot it,” a spokesperson for the agency said.
The bear was tracked down and killed, in accordance with state guidelines.
“We don’t just euthanize bears based on personal feelings,” the spokesperson said.
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“Once a bear has made contact with a person and caused injury, we have no choice but to euthanize it. It can’t be relocated.”
