SIMSBURY, Conn. — Sarah Loving had simply returned dwelling from lunch final Saturday along with her husband and two younger kids when she seemed out the window and noticed two bears strolling throughout her yard in Simsbury, Connecticut.
Her wildlife guests did not actually shock her. Lately, bears have been fairly frequent in Simsbury, a suburban neighborhood of 24,500, positioned about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northwest of Hartford, the place overturned rubbish cans are sometimes discovered alongside the highway on “trash day” after a bear has searched inside for a snack.
However when one of many bears stopped at her household’s picket playset and started climbing up the steps, Loving began filming. What got here subsequent, took her without warning.
“He made it to the touchdown after which went down the slide, like he had finished it earlier than,” she mentioned. Within the video, the bear nonchalantly slides head first, its entrance paws breaking its fall in a pile of soppy sand on the backside. The bear then lays there for a number of seconds, calmly trying round.
Loving mentioned the pair frolicked for a number of extra minutes earlier than transferring on to her neighbor’s yard. Their look lasted about 10 minutes.
“They appeared so comfy on the playscape,” mentioned Loving, whose household moved to Simsbury about two years in the past, not realizing they could run throughout bears. “We simply saved joking that they in all probability have been earlier than, however we have now not seen a bear go down playscape earlier than, ever. That was a primary.”
