MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican mother bravely shielded her son after a bear leapt on a picnic table and devoured the tacos and enchiladas meant for the boy’s birthday dinner, inches from his face.
Silvia Macías of Mexico City had traveled to the Chipinque Park on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey to celebrate the 15th birthday of her son, Santiago, who has Down syndrome.
Soon after they sat down to eat the food they had brought, the bear showed up and gulped down french fries, enchiladas, tacos and salsa.
“The worst thing was that Santiago might get scared," Macías recalled Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
I was afraid that if he got scared or screamed or scared the bear, that the bear would react,” she said of the incident Monday.
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