A mama bear was shot in Shalimar last week, and the people who had grown used to it weren’t pleased, nwfdailynews.com reports.

   “The bear that was shot this morning in Shalimar was completely harmless,” Rachel Akers said in an e-mail. “The momma bear and the cubs lived here on Eglin by the Tricare office in which I work. For two weeks they would climb the tree outside our office and sleep and eat acorns. Never once did they ever try to charge us or threaten us in any way. We were four feet away at times.”

   David Jay, who shot the bear in his yard, told officers he was afraid the animal would charge him.

   Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Stan Kirkland said the orphaned cubs, which are 9 to 10 months old, “should be plenty old and wise enough to live on their own.”