When the youngest son, 6-year-old Logan, hurled a shovel at it, the bear dropped the cooler and started toward the boy, Mr. Everhart said. A former Marine, he grabbed the closest thing he could find — a log from their stash of firewood.

“It happened to hit the bear in the head,” Mr. Everhart said. “I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear.”

C’est exactement le genre de légendes que l’on faisait courir sur Davy Crockett (lui aussi tuait les ours à mains nues), mais là, c’est vrai…

En tout cas, il est certain que cela a plus de classe que de tuer d’un coup de fusil une ourse qui défend son petit…

Source : New York Time.