151 one south florida man is thankful to still be alive after losing a boxing match with a bear just steps outside his home andy meunier was letting his dog out from his naples florida home on tuesday night when he turned just in time to see a bear staring him down from feet away everything went in slow motion it was just as scary as you can imagine meunier told abc affiliate wzvn it was standing in front of me and i tried to turn left real quick and get back in the house and caught an uppercut from a brown or a black bear alaskan towns polar bear problem leads to tourism boom the swipe earned meunier a nasty gash running along the entire left side of his face that required 41 stitches to close he was knocked to the ground but managed to scramble to his feet and get back inside the house before the situation got any worse andy meunier has an ugly souvenir on his face after tangling with a bear outside his home in naples florida wzvn truthfully im not sure how i got out alive meunier said the bear was not a stranger to him meunier said hed seen bears in the neighborhood before though they are not common to south florida meunier told wzvn that he was told hes the first person to ever be attacked by a bear in south florida ive seen them before just never 2 feet away swinging at me he said the florida fish and wildlife commission fwc placed traps around the neighborhood baited with donuts according to wzvn in order to capture the bear responsible for the attack hes kept his sense of humor throughout the incident meunier joked that it looked like hed been attacked by the xmen character wolverine i dont care if this scars or anything i walked away with my life and it couldve been a whole lot worse meunier said