Bear Mauls 80-Year-Old Petting Zoo Worker To Death
`An 80-year-old worker at a shuttered southern Illinois petting zoo has died at an Indiana hospital after being mauled by one of the zoo’s black bears.
Tom Phillips’ daughter-in-law said the man had continued to work at the Spotted Acres farm and petting zoo just outside Flora, Ill., since it closed to the public a couple years ago.
Deb Phillips said her father-in-law was trying to corral an escaped black bear Wednesday night with a bag of dog food when the bear attacked.’
