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Police investigate report of lion on Milwaukee's north side
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 7-21-15 | Jesse Garza

Posted on 07/21/2015 10:09:02 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

Milwaukee police late Monday were investigating a report from a woman who said she saw what she believed to be a lion on the city's north side.

The woman reported seeing the animal shortly after 4 p.m. in the 200 block of E. Garfield Ave., according to a news release from the Milwaukee Police Department.

Officers checked the area for several hours and contacted the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, according to the release.

The DNR asks that anyone who sees a wild cat should call authorities immediately and not attempt to capture it, police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: lion; loose; milwaukee; wisconsin
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1 posted on 07/21/2015 10:09:02 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic; onyx; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; ...

Lion reported roaming Milwuakee neighborhood — none missing from zoo.

FReep mail me if you want on or off, this Wisconsin interst ping list.


2 posted on 07/21/2015 10:10:14 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

is she talking Mountain Lion or African lion?


3 posted on 07/21/2015 10:10:54 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Chow dog.................
4 posted on 07/21/2015 10:13:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I dunno. Mountain lion would be more logical. The article pictured an african lion, but then said it wasn’t the lion in question.


5 posted on 07/21/2015 10:13:19 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Red Badger

LOLOLOL!


6 posted on 07/21/2015 10:13:58 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic; All

That lion had better run because Leftist Mayor Barrett is out today flappin’ his gums about gun control and the skyrocketing murder rate in Milwaukeestan. Eight years in.

What a putz!

#LionLivesMatter


7 posted on 07/21/2015 10:16:36 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

As a very young kid I still swear to this day that I saw a mountain lion in my back yard in Whitefish Bay (for those of you not familiar its not the habitat you’d find them in. Can still picture the whole thing clearly in my mind. My parents still laugh at me for it...but at least now I know there’s at least a few others out there as nuts as I was then apparently.


8 posted on 07/21/2015 10:16:50 AM PDT by MNlurker
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To: afraidfortherepublic

There’s a woman here that walks her chow down a main road and she has it shaved and coiffed just like a lion! You would swear she was walking a lion....................


9 posted on 07/21/2015 10:17:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

If it isn’t on youtube it didn’t happen.


10 posted on 07/21/2015 10:19:11 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Here's a similar one, but hers looks even more real.................

11 posted on 07/21/2015 10:19:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: MNlurker

I’ll believe you. In ‘93 during the big Mississippi flood thought I saw one in southern Iowa. Years later I happened to bump into a conservation officer at a gas station not far from there and told him. He told me I was one of several who had reported one in the area.


12 posted on 07/21/2015 10:23:56 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Lion photo image002.jpg
13 posted on 07/21/2015 10:25:02 AM PDT by umgud
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To: umgud

Somehow I knew that was coming. LOL!


14 posted on 07/21/2015 10:26:09 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I heard there was a lying in the oval office.


15 posted on 07/21/2015 10:26:47 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: afraidfortherepublic

An oversized Bobcat maybe?


16 posted on 07/21/2015 10:32:12 AM PDT by tflabo (Rev Wright)
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To: MNlurker

I really did have a lion in my CA neighborhood when I was a small child (4). There was an assistant zoo keeper who lived a few blocks way, and he used to bring home animals (for what prpose we did not know). He kept a half grown African lion in a cage in his back yard. My mother and I would walk over and peer through the hedge to catch a glimpse in its cage.

Many years later, in TX, when I worked for a small, local newspaper, I covered the case of a scam artist who kept a full grown mountain lion at his house. The animal used to escape from his fenced yard from time to time and was spotted walking along the tops of fences and climbing on roofs, much to the alarm of the neighbors.

I took my son out there to meet this “tame” lion and to take some pictures. The house was a very nice rental, with a pool, and I watched this couger swimming in the pool. The owner claimed to be a member of Mark Spitz’ famous Olympic swim team that won had 8 gold medals in the 1970s — now retired. I asked to see the medals, thinking that I could get a really good picture with the lion and the medals. He demurred, saying that the medals were “under the bed at his mother’s house”. The lion was not all that tame, either. My son, who was an animal lover, was very nervous around him.

I went back to the office and started making some calls to check his story. Everything he told me was a lie. My sympathic feature story was modified before it went to press. He wound up skipping out on his rent and vanishing in the middle of the night. He took the lion with him.


17 posted on 07/21/2015 10:34:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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18 posted on 07/21/2015 10:39:55 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: tflabo
We have had little lions peering in our back door...:^)

It's a bobcat....

19 posted on 07/21/2015 10:43:54 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: smokingfrog

Kewl


20 posted on 07/21/2015 10:44:56 AM PDT by umgud
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