On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 8:00:43 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 6/1/2018 9:46 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
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.




Well, you never know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCI18qAoKq4

Apropos of that: https://tinyurl.com/ybyeg5d7 Be afraid of your stairs. I'm getting one of these: http://www.webjazba.com/wp-content/u...bjazba-356.jpg

-- Jay Beattie.