A hard-traveling black bear found its way into a Rio Rancho health clinic this morning, terrifying the few workers inside before being tranquilized by state Game and Fish Department officials.
Around 7:30 a.m., the wandering, 125-pound male bear somehow triggered the automatic doors at the Presbyterian Medical Group building … just west of the busy intersection with Rio Rancho Boulevard.
The bear, estimated to be 2 to 3 years old, retreated into a side room while Rio Rancho Police and animal control officers evacuated the area, according to a news release from the game and fish department.
The bear then retreated further, into a restroom, where Game and Fish officers Darrell Cole and John Martsch sedated it with a tranquilizer dart.
It went down within a minute.
Rio Rancho is an Albuquerque suburb.
This is about a mile away from where I used to live, and that is still the office I go to for my doctor’s appointments. And it is along one of the most busy stretches of “Rio Rancho Blvd” (or just 528 as we all call it), right across the street from a Dions.
he aint the first to go down in a presbyterian restroom
Do bears shit in the woods……in ABQ they look for a restroom!