Boy, 11, shoots black bear dead on his family's front porch



An eleven-year-old boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after the animal wouldn't leave.

The youngster was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up.

He told officials he first tried to shoo the animal away, but when it would not leave he got a gun and shot it.

Danger: The black bear refused to leave the boy's front porch

Doug Petersen, a conservation officer with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, says the boy and his family probably won't be in any trouble.

The agency had received multiple complaints about a black bear in the area.

The bear had been hanging around a transfer station and getting into bins and bird feeders.

Petersen says Fish and Game doesn't usually issue citations in situations where the bear had been a problem around humans.

The agency has issued the family a permit to keep the bear's carcass.