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Bear destroys woman’s kayak seconds after she thanks it for leaving her kayak alone

(Photo: YouTube)

A video posted on YouTube by clearly demonstrates that you can’t reason with a bear, no matter how calm or erratic you might be.

The two minute and 30 second clip, posted by Mary Maley, called Black Bear Gnaws on Delta 15s Seakayak in Berg Bay, Alaska starts off with a woman filming a bear approaching her.

Maley starts off with thanking the bear for “leaving her kayak alone.”

“I’m going to pepper spray you in the face,” she declares after, and soon makes good on her promise. The bear backs away, slightly confused, and starts meandering towards a nearby kayak.

Maley, who is on a solo kayak trip, screams at it to get away. And then screams some more. And then some more, often addressing it as “bear.”

“Bear! Bear! You’re breaking it! You’re breaking my kayak,” she pleads. “It’s not even food, it doesn’t even taste good!”

The bear does not react to Maley’s reasoning and continues to gnaw at parts of the kayak, eventually turning it over.

“Why are you doing that? Why are you breaking my kayak? What am I going to do,” she screams, though the bear doesn’t respond.

“It’s the end of September! Why are you here! You’re suppose to be asleep!” she yells. The bear continues inspecting the kayak with its paws and teeth.

Maley wrote on YouTube that she managed to swim to a boat anchored in a bay, where she hoped to be helped. The boat didn’t have a radio but “The German flagged S/v Caledonia took me and my things to Wrangell where I am trying to repair my kayak now.”

No word on if the bear left feeling satisfied.