A man asked a bear for a cigarette, mistaking him for a man in Transbaikalia.
According to his son Vladimir, it happened when his father went with friends to the forest to get cedar cones. In the evening the man was already tired.
Through the dark clouds, I saw: Molly seemed to be a low man with a backpack going slowly, languishing. His father obtained him and asked him to light a cigarette while he was carrying his backpack. But instead of a cloth, I felt a wool under my hands. They both screamed: The bear raised his voice loud.
– said the son.
The father, realizing he had encountered a predator, rushed to the bivouac to look for a gun, but when he returned, it was no longer there. Where the bear met, there was only a torn backpack and the shells left by him after eating nuts.
The man assumed the bear was trying to get rid of undigested food, so he walked away and groaned.