Upstate NY woman stares down bear in garden

Mahopac, NY resident Adele Rubino, 66, was on her hands and knees weeding her flower bed when she heard a rustling noise. What Rubino thought was a dog turned out to be a bear that stood 5 feet tall on its hind legs and weighed more than 200 pounds. "The bear looked at me, and I looked at it" for about two minutes, she said. Knowing not to run, she then slowly stood and walked 80 feet from the garden to her house. In The Lower Hudson Journal-News.