Prolly a damned black bear. They can’t be trusted. Shiftless, thieving black bears. If it had been a polar bear,it wouldn’t even had made the news.

The aggressive bear that was killed a week ago by an Amish Road homeowner after the animal charged and then attempted to pull out a window air conditioner has tested positive for rabies, a Garrett County health official said Tuesday.

“We sent the head to our health and mental hygiene lab in Baltimore on Thursday and got the results Friday,” said Steve Sherrard, director of environmental health for the county’s health department.

At 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 29, the homeowners had heard a commotion outside and saw a bear attempting to get at two penned pygmy goats. When the family hollered from its main doorway at the bear, it wheeled and charged the house.

“At first it was pushing on the door and I was holding onto the handle from inside,” said Charlotte Stanton. “Mike was going to the gun room to get a gun,” she said of her husband.

At that point, Charlotte said the bear left the door and attempted to pull an air-conditioning unit out of a window.

“I was pulling from inside and the bear was pulling on it from outside when Mike got there with the gun,” Charlotte added. “There was just enough room to stick out the gun barrel beside the air conditioner, but you couldn’t aim it. He just stuck it out there and shot and it flattened the bear.”

The No. 4 shotgun pellets struck the bear in the head and neck, authorities reported. The bear was eventually put down by a Natural Resources Police officer who arrived at the home 2.7 miles south of U.S. Route 40 about 30 minutes after the 911 call was transferred to state police.

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