On 6/1/2018 8:57 AM, AMuzi wrote:
From this item on the dead WA cyclist:

https://www.outsideonline.com/231213...cougar-attack?


"...doesn't mean the cyclists did anything wrong. In fact, “They did
everything right,” Myers says. When the cougar initially started to
pursue the riders, they stopped, shouted at it, and swung their bikes in
the air to scare it..."

contrast with:
https://www.ammoland.com/2017/12/ia-...#axzz5HB4nMxoM


"It is legal to shoot mountain lions anywhere in the United States, in
self-defense."

From the latter article: "The odds of being attacked by a mountain lion
are tiny, but improbable things happen. It does not matter if they are
rare if they happen to you."

That sort of thinking leads to all sorts of weird behavioral choices.


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- Frank Krygowski