A bear (not pictured) attacked the wrong pensioner (Picture: Alamy /file)

A pleasant afternoon picking wild berries turned ugly for one octogenarian when an angry bear got all up in his grill.

Russian shepherd Yusuf Alchagirov, 80, was minding his own business when he was confronted by the angry mammal in the region of Kabardino-Balkaria last week.

Instead of running for the hills, the sprightly pensioner decided to fight back as the animal placed him in a bear hug.

When the beast lifted him off the ground, Alchagirov unleashed a flurry of headbutts and kicks.


The bear dropped him but then sent him flying off a cliff before leaving the scene of the crime.

The attack happened in Russia’s Kabardino-Balkaria region (Picture: Google Maps)

‘I had been in the old raspberry fields when the bear turned up and attacked me,’ the man explained in an interview with local television.



‘It is a defence technique that my father told me about and is well-known to shepherds.

‘The bear’s nose is very sensitive and if you whack it on the nose it pretty soon loses interest in trying to make you into a meal.’

The fighting OAP is recovering after being hospitalised with bite wounds and four broken ribs.

‘I got off easy,’ he added. ‘It’d have killed me if I’d chickened out and tried to run, but because I was facing it I was able to butt it on the nose.’