"She tried running from the bear but it caught her, dropped her to the ground, and scraped and clawed at her, she said. So she tried petting it, but "that did not work, so then it just got me again."
Then she played dead -- and the bear walked away."

When bears attack: 7 people mauled by bears in recent days
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/us/bear-attacks/
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Chalk up a save for playing dead.