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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Right by my apartment-- okay, not right by, but pretty close, and only a block or so from the park where I took the girls today.

I wasn't too worried; I heard about it from a neighbor as I was leaving (that's why those helicopters were circling incessantly for two hours!), but I figured if there was danger they would clear out the park or stop me from entering. And there wasn't, and they didn't. It did create a traffic snarl, though. My husband had to detour when he got off the freeway coming home. They still had the area roped off (for the prints, I suppose) when we got home after our errands tonight, about 10:20.

Of course, when some a boy and girl, about 9 and 12, playing on the equipment overheard from somebody else in the park that they had brought in an Animal Control truck with a cage, they ran past me and the woman sitting next to me on the bench (who was their mother), yelling, "Bye, mom! We're going to go see the mountain lion! They've got a cage to catch it with!" Whereupon she jumped up and started vehemently (in Spanish) forbidding them to do anything of the sort. It was quite amusing; I remember the days when the chance to see a mountain lion would have seemed a grand adventure to me, too.
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
Um, yeah, I'd'a yelled at the kids, too, in however many languages it took.
 

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Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 
At that point, I think I'd say something more like (assuming I was married with kids) "Honey, take the kids. I'm gonna go see the mountain lion!"
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Heh! Well, considering that it was still on the loose, and that animals that come this far down tend to be sick and therefore more dangerous, I can understand the tone she took.

Luckily mine was too young to care and just wanted to slide and swing.
 

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Posted by b boy (Member # 9587) on :
 
I'm with you, Juxtapose. Last summer there was a nuisance bear loose in the little hamlet I lived in. It was all over the news for days. Then one day, my supervisor and I were driving through town on our way home from a long day of sampling and a ministry truck pulls off Main Street and behind it was a green bear trap trailer... with a bear in it! We both looked at each other and said, "WHOAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! (Bill and Ted style) A BEAR!!!!!!" She hit me so hard that I swerved the truck and almost went over into the ditch. You'd think we didn't work in the wilderness...
 

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Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
 
Lions... bears... HA!

I live next to a lake that has a sign that states "Do not provoke, molest or intice the alligators." Every now and then Animal Control has to come to drag away some six to eight foot alligator; do they seriously think that people can successfully "molest" an eight foot alligator?
 

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Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 
I dunno. Maybe all the Steve Irwin wannabes (did I just invent a new oxymoron?) get together when you're not home and do recreations. I've seen that show, there's definite molestation going on.

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Luckily mine was too young to care and just wanted to slide and swing.

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Ahh, sweet sweet childhood oblivion.
 

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Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
oblivion or obliviousness?

2 very different things
 

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Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
 
There have been sitings for the last year for a Mountain Lion or a Black "Panther". Both colors have been cited, none confirmed though.
 

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Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
 
We have a mountain lion down here in the Family housing area of the depot this week. We get them once or twice a year. I suppose it helps keep the coyotes down. Between the two, night roaming cats don't last long. It is also an incentive to watch your dog if you value it. There has never been a problem with kids. However, I did find tracks that followed mine on an early morning jog arround the area a few years ago. Old and fat must not have seemed appetizing that morning.
 

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Posted by b boy (Member # 9587) on :
 

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Originally posted by Nighthawk:
Lions... bears... HA!

I live next to a lake that has a sign that states "Do not provoke, molest or intice the alligators." Every now and then Animal Control has to come to drag away some six to eight foot alligator; do they seriously think that people can successfully "molest" an eight foot alligator?

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Originally posted by Nighthawk:
Lions... bears... HA!

I live next to a lake that has a sign that states "Do not provoke, molest or intice the alligators." Every now and then Animal Control has to come to drag away some six to eight foot alligator; do they seriously think that people can successfully "molest" an eight foot alligator?

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There was a pond at my school that alligators kept getting into. I'm not sure how, since it had a fence around it, and two sides were parking lot, one side was the arts center, and the other side was a dirt road/soccar field. But they loved to hang out there, and they had to call animal control many a time.

I had pet alligators when I was 10. They were awesome.

-pH
 

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