Bear Crashes Into New Jersey Elementary School (VIDEO)

Chaos ensued at Ogdensburg Elementary School in Ogdensburg, N.J., after a bear crashed through a glass door and ran through the hallway, CBS New York reports.

Luckily, school custodian Earl Hornyak was on the case.

“I started to chase it down a hallway and then it decides to go in a classroom,” Hornyak told the station.

Principal Tim Nicinski told CBS New York the school is located inan area where bears are common and that local residents are used to seeing the animals "daily or weekly."

According to the Star-Ledger, the bear was eventually coaxed out of a window by local police and then ran back into the woods.

The damaged doorway remains boarded up until an replacement can be installed.

"Nothing else was damaged," Nicinski told the New Jersey Herald. "We are very fortunate that it was just the door."

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Comments

[wfhbear]

12:15 PM on 05/12/2012

That is enough of this frivolity over this bear incident. You would all be laughing out of the other side of your mouths if the picnic baskets hadn't been stored in a locked closet.

[Pete Gerasia]

08:52 PM on 05/09/2012

We need to ban bears on school campuses. //this type of thing could be avoided if we didn't have such lenient bear laws. Someone could have gotten seriously hurt. They are incredibly strong animals, with incredibly strong arms. We need to limit the right to bear arms.

[Solitaire727]

06:41 AM on 05/10/2012

Don't you mean limit the right to arm bears? LOL.

[wfhbear]

12:12 PM on 05/12/2012

You are bordering on the edge of hysteria. Between you and pete I am laughing out loud.

Thanks

[wfhbear]

12:11 PM on 05/12/2012

Peter you have made my day!!!

[XS VENOM]

08:46 PM on 05/09/2012

Anyone here ever see the movie " The Bear " , remember when he ate the mushroom. Well same story here. This little guy was tripping his face off.

[svdb]

08:25 PM on 05/09/2012

Beary annoyed.

[sugarrrrush]

08:23 PM on 05/09/2012

Beary scary situation~

[Suemoni]

12:04 PM on 05/09/2012

Beary naughty lil' bear. I am glad the kids and adults were not hurt. I am also grateful no one got trigger happy and shot mamed or killed the lil' bear. Humans are taking over the land that once was owned by animals. The animals are frightened off there territory because humans wanna be greedy and take over everything. Now these forrest animals are litterally coming to live in our homes and there's not too much we can say.

[acarioti]

12:03 PM on 05/09/2012

Wow! So many stupid jokes here! This was a dangerous event that the janitor bearly escaped from.

[Ty2010]

12:47 PM on 05/09/2012

Nah, bear appears to be 60lbs tops, likely much less.

[ttaylorssm]

12:00 PM on 05/09/2012

That glass must've been squeaky clean

[collectsrocks]

11:53 AM on 05/09/2012

Reportedly after the bear was chased off, the sound of elementary school children's voices could be heard singing, "The bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain..."

[jgmrealestate]

11:31 AM on 05/09/2012

the bear was chasing a butterfly

[metusmetu]

02:50 AM on 05/09/2012

No chaos, this was BOO-BOO bear, ...............

[Ty2010]

12:48 PM on 05/09/2012

Yup, lost baby bear.

[MSDenton]

02:01 AM on 05/09/2012

When exactly does the chaos ensue?

[jchowell3657]

11:57 PM on 05/08/2012

They never did get around to telling us whether Yogi did or did not find a picanic basket.

[jhjohan]

11:56 PM on 05/08/2012

Something had to be chasing him . I live in an area with alot of bears , they come on our deck , they know the sliding glass door , Bears don't see very well , they depend on smell and hearing , something had to have scared him bad to run through a glass door !

[luckycur]

11:05 AM on 05/09/2012

Bears have eyesight equal to humans, and that includes depth perception.

[Ty2010]

12:49 PM on 05/09/2012

Probably a house cat, they're known for treeing bears.

[thm4usa]

08:42 PM on 05/08/2012

Here bear, bear, bear! ..Here bear, bear bear! Nice bear ....