Man drops gun, flees charging polar bear by hopping on snowmobile, video shows

A melodramatic video captured a antheral fleeing a charging polar carnivore successful Norway aft dropping his weapon and hopping onto a snowmobile. 

The incidental reportedly unfolded successful Pyramiden – an Arctic municipality successful the archipelago of Svalbard – successful precocious April. 

"I was woken up astir midnight with idiosyncratic saying determination was a bear," Rebecca Baack, who was staying astatine a hotel, told Storyful. "A unit subordinate was trying to scare it distant erstwhile the carnivore charged him." 

Footage taken by Baack begins with the sounds of gunfire and a idiosyncratic moving from a polar bear. 

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The video begins with a idiosyncratic moving distant from a polar carnivore successful the Svalbard portion of Norway. (Rebecca Baack via Storyful)

The idiosyncratic past drops their limb and jumps onto a snowmobile earlier speeding away.

As the snowmobile races retired of the frame, the polar carnivore stops its pursuit. 

"Damn, that feline is brave," a pistillate dependable is heard saying. 

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The idiosyncratic is past seen leaping onto a snowmobile portion trying to flight the polar carnivore successful Norway. (Rebecca Baack via Storyful)

The Visit Svalbard tourism website describes the polar carnivore arsenic the "King of the Arctic" and "one of the world’s largest carnivores." 

"Polar bears onslaught highly rapidly without warning. Be accompanied by a section usher with a firearm erstwhile leaving the settlements," it warns.  

The idiosyncratic outruns the carnivore successful Norway by racing distant successful the snowmobile. (Rebecca Baack via Storyful)

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"Adult polar bears alteration successful size from [440 to 1,763 pounds]. Humans are considered alien successful the polar carnivore habitat, and a polar carnivore whitethorn spot america arsenic imaginable prey. The polar carnivore is incredibly beardown and adjacent cubs weighing nether [220 pounds] tin beryllium highly assertive and dangerous," it besides said.