A Russian man found himself in a life threatening situation when he visited a local fishing spot. 

Igor Vorozhbitsyn came face to face with a brown bear that lunged at him. Trying to defend himself, not knowing what to do, his mobile phone went off in his pocket.  Blaring over the speaker of his phone he and the bear were treated to Justin Bieber's "Baby". Naturally, the only thing the bear could do was to turn around and run back into the forest.

"I had parked my car and was walking towards the spot I'd marked out when there was a tremendous impact on my back and the bear was on top of me," the-42-year-old told Central European News.

Vorozhbitsyn suffered cuts and bruises around his face and chest during the attack, but his life was ultimately saved to the sound of someone crooning, "baby, baby, baby, oh" from his pocket.

"I couldn’t believe my luck when the phone went off and he fled," Vorozhbitsyn continued. "I know that sort of ringtone isn’t to everyone's taste, but my granddaughter loaded it onto my phone for a joke."