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 Trenton resident avoids collision with 600 pound bear web posted June 29, 2007 TRENTON – Trenton resident Keller Harmon said he received the “scare of my life” while driving on Luke Bridge Road just 2 miles from Highway 191 on Thursday evening. “It was about 7:15 (pm), just before the creek on Luke Bridge Road,” Mr. Keller said, “I encountered the biggest black bear you ever seen in your life.” The bear, which Harmon estimated to be between 500 and 600 pounds, ran across the road. “I had to stop to keep from hitting him.” Mr. Harmon said, “it was a monster”, and that if he had been just a few seconds earlier there would have been no way to avoid a collision with the beast. “I’ve seen what a deer can do, much less a bear.” Mr. Harmon said that people do not believe that bears are in the area jokingly adding, “The bears are here, and it ain’t the Chicago Bears.” Mr. Harmon said that there are several people in the largely rural area that have children and they need to be aware that black bears are present. “The kids play in the yards and the woods,” Harmon said, “and the trash cans, bears are drawn to them for food, and that brings them around people’s homes. They need to know there are bears around.” Mr. Harmon said he has lived in the Lake Trenton area for twenty-seven years and he doubted some of the earlier claims because he always believed black bears were indigenous to the mountainous areas to the north. He said he has never seen a bear before but that has changed. “I know they are here,” he said. Mr. Harmon stated he saw the bear “on a full run on all fours” coming from a field that was being harvested by tractor and was barely able to avoid hitting the animal as it crossed the road. He described the fur as “shinny” and said, “you couldn’t put it in the bed of a pick-up” referring to the size of the bear. Due to the late hour of the report EdgefieldDaily.com was unable to contact officials with the Department of Natural Resources about the incident. For
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