Overview
- Store surveillance from the Markleysburg, Pennsylvania, Family Dollar shows the bear entering and leaping over the front counter.
- Eleven-year-old Cole Frazee ran inside with the bear within about a foot and a half before reaching the lone cashier for help.
- They climbed onto the counter to assess the situation, then escaped to a locked car as the animal wandered the store for roughly 10 minutes.
- The Pennsylvania Game Commission said such encounters rise in late fall when bears aggressively seek food.
- Local coverage reports no injuries and no immediate capture or removal efforts following the incident.