“Bears have some awfully funny inclinations. Back in 2004 there were all those wackynews stories about the bear who’d downed three dozen cans of beer at a campground and proceeded to pass out.

But this one takes the cake: this summer, when Vermont hiker Kris Rowley was approached by a bear and it kept following her, it proved more interested in chowing down on her iPhone.

Rowley, who serves as Vermont’s chief information security officer, tells CIO.com: “In a semi-panic, I threw the iPhone at the bear.”

The bear proceeded to ignore Rowley and started clawing at the iPhone instead, CIO.com explains. Rowley used that as her chance to make a hasty exit. She returned two days later to get her iPhone back–bringing along a baseball bat for defense–and found it still there, but chewed and scratched up to the point where she couldn’t use it anymore.

Unfortunately, the Genius Bar support team at her local Apple Store wouldn’t take “a bear ate my iPhone” as a legitimate excuse to get a new one on the house: Rowley had to pay full price for a the replacement.

Maybe that would’ve been different if she’d brought the bear along with her. Just a thought.”

You can access this story yourself by clicking HERE.

After reading the story the only thing that came to mind was, “That damn bear could have had my arm…but there is no way in hell I would have let him have my iPhone.”

What do you think?