Claim: Photographs show four black bears cavorting on a backyard playset in Alaska.
TRUE
Example: [Collected via e-mail, January 2007]
Some folks who live on the Hillside area of Anchorage, Alaska, built this playground in their yard last weekend for their 3 and 4 year-old boys.
The next morning, the mom woke up to this scene.
Variations: An April 2010 variant sited these ursines in Petoskey, Michigan.
Origins: These photographs of four black bears cavorting on a backyard playset were snapped by a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, in
see in a few of the photos that one of the bears is chewing on my son's fire truck. Occasionally, he would bite down on the button that would sound the siren. He Since then, my husband hooked up an air horn. That way, the boys can alert me if a moose or bear or porcupine or any other critter comes around. This past summer [2007] we have had other groups of bears. One of them even peed in our driveway!
I took the photos of the bears on our play equipment. I was getting the boys (ages 3 & 4) ready for daycare in the morning. My mom (who lives downstairs) called me and said to look out the window at the playset.
would jump up and give it a strange look. But, it didn't scare him off. After about
Last updated: 24 April 2010