Colorado Runner Kills Mountain Lion In Self-Defense

[Mikej]

PETA is coming for that guy.

[Lewis Moon]

Originally Posted by Mikej

PETA is coming for that guy.

[Matthew]

Pics or it didn't happen!!! I know they found the lion but still!

[gasman]

Originally Posted by joosttx

My Grandmother once used a 5ft diamondback as a bullwhip to kill it. We are it for dinner that night.

Your Grandmother is bad ass.

[AngryScientist]

Humans are capable of superhuman feats sometimes when it’s life or death. Amazing really.

[gdw]

That guy is lucky and tough.
This seems to be the year of the cat in Colorado. So far the state has trapped and killed 5 mountain lions that were frequenting residential neighborhoods in West Glenwood Springs, 3 were caught on film in a driveway in Boulder, and one was shot in Nederland after it killed several goats. I've seem tracks in the snow near my house a couple times and saw a very large one, 200+ lb, while driving to Boulder. We've had lots of bobcat sightings too. I took the pictures of the one shown below two days ago.

[William]

Originally Posted by Jaybee

The runner heard something, turned around, cat bit him in the face. He picked up a rock and hit the lion, then was able to get on the lion's back and suffocate it by headlock. Puncture wounds to his face, arms, torso, released from hospital.

He's lucky he heard something because otherwise this story would have gone the other way...







William

[Jaybee]

Originally Posted by William

He's lucky he heard something because otherwise this story would have gone the other way...







William

Usually they are dead silent. Slight crunch of icy snow, maybe a mudpuddle splash or a little bit of gravel skittering, or otherwise it's lights out.

So lucky.

[mt2u77]

Hell, I had enough trouble scruffing my old house cat to trim its nails, and it only weighed 8 lbs.

[soulspinner]

Originally Posted by gasman

your grandmother is bad ass.

+1 lol

[froze]

I suppose if you can put a dog into a choke hold and kill it the same could be done to a cat.

[RFC]

Cats are pound for pound stronger, much quicker, more flexible, and have 10 more weapons than dogs. Silent Ninja Killers.

Originally Posted by froze

I suppose if you can put a dog into a choke hold and kill it the same could be done to a cat.

[froze]

Originally Posted by RFC

Cats are pound for pound stronger, much quicker, more flexible, and have 10 more weapons than dogs. Silent Ninja Killers.

I know that, but that guy must have did that to the cat, I seriously doubt he held the cat at arms length and choked it with his hands. That particular cat was a young one, so that may have helped I'm sure to choke it out, I wonder how the rider would have fared if the cat was a full grown adult.

[weisan]

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by nmrt

It was a 80 lb mtn lion.
I could totally suffocate it for sure. yeah...of course I could do it.
seriously.

Glad the guy didn't die but geez..too bad about the 80 pound mountain lion..he was just being a mountain lion..