re: Since bears have been in the news lately. Have you ever seen one

A few years back when I traveled throughout Georgia for work I was sitting at one of the picnic tables at the water park in Helen after hours drinking a couple beers and I saw what I thought at first was a dog but then realized a bear running alongside the river on the other side.

Then it decided to cross the river to my side probably not much more than 50 feet from me. I was definitely worried because if it had hooked a left when it climbed the bank I was going to be in a bit of a pickle I would imagine.

Luckily it just shot straight across the parking lot and the road into the woods. It took my heart awhile to stop beating too fast, that's for sure