Posted on 02/02/2005 2:48:47 PM PST by swilhelm73
What a BUMMER Man!
If you try to "rescue" a mountain lion, you must be on drugs.
"If called by a panther.....don't anther!"
" ticketed for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia."
The smell was the probably cause for a search. They were ticketed for what was found, not the smell.
What a load of poop...
more than likely an injured 65 pound cougar was thinking, can I eat that...Back home we'd of finished it off with one to the head and dragged it off into the woods for "nature's-recycling"...
"If you can put an injured mountain lion in a jeep without getting torn up, the thing is probably too badly injured to save."
Maybe the guys were too stoned to be scared.
What's the difference between a bobcat and a mountain lion?
I thought they were the same critter.
...and amazingly, this didn't happen in California!
The whole story has a sort of Bevis and Butthead edge to it.
>>>A DOW spokesman said the men were lucky to have survived the encounter without serious injuries. ...
"A mountain lion that large can kill a deer -- that's how they make a living," Malmsbury told the Camera.
Even possession of wildlife is against the law, .... , a sheriff's department spokesman said,.....<<<
what's worse than the dope head youngins? the egotistical and idiotic DOW and Sheriff spokesmen. they say the stupidist things... makes them feel "smart" i guess. according to them - every thing is "against the law" and/or "too dangerous" for the idiotic public.
Do a good deed and get busted just doesn't seem right.
About 120 pounds.
This story takes me back 40+ years...
Some High School buddies of mine were out drinking beer down by the river and on their way home, they saw a "dead" bobcat on the side of the road. They stopped to pick it up (they figured they would skin it since it was "dead") and put it in the trunk of their car.
The next morning (when they had sobered up), they went to get the cat out of the trunk and discovered that it was ALIVE. Indeed, it had clawed and chewed the back seat in an effort to get out of the trunk! Luckily, the springs in the rear seat acted as a wire cage..., otherwise the cat would have been in full possession of their car!
They drove the car back to where they had picked up the cat, placed a heavy block of wood on the trunk (attached to about 30' of rope, and, one brave soul unlocked the trunk and ran! The other two pulled the block of wood off of the trunk and the bobcat raced into the woods!!!
My buddies have never lived this tale down!!!
>>What's the difference between a bobcat and a mountain lion? <<
about a hundred pounds and a tail..
>>I thought they were the same critter.<<
not hardly..
Nope, THIS is a bobcat on drugs.
LOL!
(I figured that out. See my Post 32)
hehehe...
my brother in law had a "dead" buck wake up in his basement.... it ransacked the room before finally busting through a window.. hehe...
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