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It wasn’t an ordinary day at the Sportsman’s Lodge and Hotel.

Charlie Griffin came face to face with a bear after checking the dumpster Friday.

“I done this and a bear came out of there, I couldn’t get away from him,” said Griffin.

He says the 400 pound bear popped out of the dumpster and ran him down.

“And the bear caught me right around here,” as Griffin point’s out the spot.

Slashed by the bear on the arm, Charlie ran leaving bloody prints.

“I was heading back this way, and I slipped right here fell down here. and after I fell down the bear went back that way,” said Griffin as he points where he fell behind the truck.

Getting away from the six foot bear, with only a few stiches.

Thankful Griffin said, “I didn’t know whether I was going to live or not, ill tell you the truth, but I came through it.”

The FWC did give a notice to the lodge to put a lock on the trash can so this doesn’t happen again.

Bill Eaton who helps at the lodge said, “We’re in the process of contacting waste pro and finding out why they don’t have a locking dumpster back here that’s their job.”

Eastpoint, considered the midnight buffet for bears, who knows if it will come back.

“You never know what a bear’s going to do,” said Griffin.