The one on her lawn - although quite large - didn't appear to be fully grown, she said. Deer, coyotes and bears are all pretty common, Spada said. Monrovia gets its share of wildlife wandering down from the nearby foothills. Spada's husband called the police, but by the time they arrived, the bear was dead. He stepped out on their balcony to find the bear below, "moaning and groaning and lying on the ground," Spada said.Ī neighbor said their Ring camera showed the bear at their own door before it collapsed on the lawn. Sad for the bear, but feeling that the police had the situation under control, Spada went back inside and then to bed.
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The car, which had been going about 45 mph, was severely damaged, but the driver was not seriously injured, Spada said police told her.
She went out to see what was going on, and officers said a bear had been hit by a car and was hiding in the bushes. Saturday, Spada noticed police milling around the condo complex where she lives near West Foothill Boulevard. Waiting all day Sunday for authorities to do something about the corpse was a strange postscript to what had been a long, sad night.Īround 10:30 p.m. The Department of Fish and Wildlife did not immediately respond to messages from The Times on Sunday afternoon. How long before it would start to smell, and attract flies and coyotes? Spada wondered. But by the afternoon, the situation seemed even more dire. the remains of the animal were still lying there.įinding the bear was "horrible, just horrible," Spada said. Police assured her the California Department of Fish and Wildlife would come get it, but by 7 p.m. And, perhaps strangest of all, it was a bear. Amy Spada stepped out her front door in Monrovia on Sunday morning and, to her horror, found a corpse on the lawn.
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