HuffPo says that an Italian boy showed nerves of steel when a bear crept toward him in the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park in Trentino, in northern Italy. 12-year-old Alessandro Breda was having a picnic with his family when shit got real and a giant brown bear entered the scene. No, the Italian Yogi Bear didn’t show up and steal their pick-a-nick basket, but they did encounter an actual bear that could have easily torn them to shreds. But Alessandro was unafraid and slow-walked away from that bear like an explosion in an action movie.
While some would lose their vocal cords after screaming them off from seeing a bear, Alessandro knew how to play it when he encountered one. He spoke to local Italian media and said that before his family’s picnic, he had seen a video about bears, so he knew what to do and what not to do as the bear showed up. He said:
“I’d learned that if you yell, the bear becomes agitated and becomes much more aggressive.”
The boy’s stepfather, Loris Calliari, spoke to CNN and said he figures that the bear was sleeping and Alessandro woke it up by accident as the kid was gathering pine cones. He said:
“I noticed that he was moving and I told him to walk slowly, to be careful, that I will take a picture but to move. I was nervous at first but then saw that the bear was not scared, was not acting, so I calmed down.”
Apparently there are between 82 and 93 bears in the Trentino region and while conflicts are rare, there have still been three maulings since 2014. So I mean, with coronavirus ravaging the world and that new inflammatory-disease for children popping up, statistically Alessandro has more worries than bears. Here he is being chill AF:
Dramatic footage shows a 12 year old Italian #boy walking calmly down a #mountain, followed by a brown #bear. #Brilliant video and lot of #lessons learned from this on how to keep calm under #dangerous situation, keep your cool, parents guidance, training, #nerves of steel etc pic.twitter.com/1nDoY5wBdx
— Sanjay Maan (@smaan72) May 27, 2020
Good for Alessandro. I love that he probably saw some YouTube video on bears and it saved his actual life. And my parents told me that spending time online would be a waste of my life? Pfft! The 90s were wrong about so many things, especially Tara Reid‘s career trajectory.
Pic: Twitter
