Middle school teacher Jim Litz better think twice before discounting a student’s claim of “the dog ate my homework”, because he knows that stranger things can happen, and they have happened to him. On his way to work in Missoula, Montana this week ,via his trusty red bicycle, he was peddling along at a clip of about 25 miles an hour and “he came upon a rise and spotted a black bear about 10 feet in front of him. He didn't have time to stop and T-boned the bruin. He tumbled over the handlebars, his helmet hit the bear's back and the two went cartwheeling down the road. The bear rolled over Litz's head, cracking his helmet, and scratched his back before scampering up a hill above the road.”
Litz was then taken to the hospital and is expected to make a speedy recover and should be able to go back to class on Friday. Now that will make a great story for show and tell.
(via AP)
