The unidentified man took a ferocious slap to the head from a black bear while enjoying a soak behind his home in British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
“The guy was sitting ... with his back to the forest, then all of a sudden he felt a heavy blow to the back of his head,” RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair told the National Post.
“And he turned around and saw himself face to face with a bear.”
The 55-year-old man shouted at the bear as he scrambled Sunday to get inside the home near Whistler Village. The man called police, and the attacking bear was shot down.
The man was treated for his head wounds at a local health care center.
