Dancer and fisherman Sergey Zhirkov’s panic-stricken last moments were filmed by horrified onlookers as a bear helped itself to his fished and ripped apart his boat. The 31 year old man from Kovran in the north of Kamchatka had climbed the steep river bank to get a phone signal to tell his friends to come and collect him after his fishing expedition. A bear then clambered into his boat on the shore, ripped it apart, and ate his fish.
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Sergey got so nervous that he started to throw stones at the bear, trying to scare the animal away. The bear retreated at first, but then came back and chased Sergey first up the hill, and then down into the river. Fisherman on the other bank shouted warnings to the terrified man, reported The Siberian Times