A roadside café in Russia that uses three caged bears to attract customers was the scene of a tragic accident Tuesday when an intoxicated man bought cans of condensed milk from the café and attempted to feed the bears. A security camera at the café in the Shelekhov District in Irkutsk Oblast captured Andrey Sakharovsky, 42, walking toward the bears with a plastic bag carrying the condensed milk he intended to feed to the 4-year-old male bears named Misha and Sasha, and a 5-year-old female bear named Masha. Sakharovsky can be seen climbing over the fence to access the caged bears as his friend watched from behind the fence. The Daily Mail tells the story and posted video that shows the incident from a distance:
One of the bears grabbed Sakharovsky’s right arm. It was unclear whether the victim put his arm through the cage or the bear pulled it inside. In the video, you can see a commotion that prompted the friend to jump over the fence to help. Responding to the victim’s screams, café chef Gabil Guseinov rushed to the scene and used a spade to fight off the bears. “The bear—it’s not clear which of the three—then bit off the arm, severing it close to the shoulder,” The Siberian Times reported. “It was very, very scary,” Guseinov told The Siberian Times. “I would not wish it on anyone.” The victim is seen being carried off by medics, who said they couldn’t reattach the arm because of the amount of damage done from the mauling, the Daily Mail reported.
The victim can be seen carrying a plastic bag with cans of condensed milk he intended to feed to the bears. “Of course, it is his fault,” Evgeny Sakharovsky, the victim’s brother, told The Siberian Times. “He jumped over [the fence] and went to feed them. “[But] for drunk Russian men, the fence needs to be higher. Both my brother and the café are guilty. And it will be good if the café offers compensation because he is disabled now.” The Daily Mail reported that the brother is demanding compensation because the café sold his brother condensed milk knowing his intentions of feeding the bears. A police spokesman told The Siberian Times that the bears would likely be put down “after tasting human blood.” Read about other ill-advised wildlife encounters on GrindTV ‘Stupid tourist season again’ in Yellowstone as woman pets bison; video Tourists walk right up to grizzly bear in dangerous encounter near Banff; video Tourist makes huge mistake by teasing bear at a temple in Thailand
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A roadside café in Russia that uses three caged bears to attract customers was the scene of a tragic accident Tuesday when an intoxicated man bought cans of condensed milk from the café and attempted to feed the bears.
A security camera at the café in the Shelekhov District in Irkutsk Oblast captured Andrey Sakharovsky, 42, walking toward the bears with a plastic bag carrying the condensed milk he intended to feed to the 4-year-old male bears named Misha and Sasha, and a 5-year-old female bear named Masha.
Sakharovsky can be seen climbing over the fence to access the caged bears as his friend watched from behind the fence. The Daily Mail tells the story and posted video that shows the incident from a distance:
One of the bears grabbed Sakharovsky’s right arm. It was unclear whether the victim put his arm through the cage or the bear pulled it inside.
In the video, you can see a commotion that prompted the friend to jump over the fence to help. Responding to the victim’s screams, café chef Gabil Guseinov rushed to the scene and used a spade to fight off the bears.
“The bear—it’s not clear which of the three—then bit off the arm, severing it close to the shoulder,” The Siberian Times reported.
“It was very, very scary,” Guseinov told The Siberian Times. “I would not wish it on anyone.”
The victim is seen being carried off by medics, who said they couldn’t reattach the arm because of the amount of damage done from the mauling, the Daily Mail reported.
“Of course, it is his fault,” Evgeny Sakharovsky, the victim’s brother, told The Siberian Times. “He jumped over [the fence] and went to feed them.
“[But] for drunk Russian men, the fence needs to be higher. Both my brother and the café are guilty. And it will be good if the café offers compensation because he is disabled now.”
The Daily Mail reported that the brother is demanding compensation because the café sold his brother condensed milk knowing his intentions of feeding the bears.
A police spokesman told The Siberian Times that the bears would likely be put down “after tasting human blood.”
Read about other ill-advised wildlife encounters on GrindTV
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