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Your ideas make perfect sense, but since we're talking California, we
should probably follow mine instead. We should locate the alleged perpetrator and bring it before justice. Even though the victim and her friend clearly identified the perpetrator as a mountain lion, we should make sure that we question plenty of deer and rabbits so the rest of the lions are not offended. We should make sure that the brave men who capture the alleged perpetrator handle the perpetrator with excessive gentleness. If the perpetrator interprets the excessive gentleness as a sign of weakness and attacks the arresting officers and they defend themselves, we should call the arresting officers racists and show videos of the officers subduing the perpetrator. The videos should be edited to remove the initial attack by the lion against the officers. Once we try the alleged perpetrator, we should blame the victims for causing the attack. We should also point out that the perpetrator was only a year old and should not be held accountable. We should ignore the fact that the perpetrator had already killed a man before attacking the woman. We should also try the other bikers for throwing rocks at the perpetrator. In the unfortunate instance that the perpetrator is found guilty, we should incarcerate the perpetrator with lots of other perpetrators who have done the same thing. After 6 months of being locked up with other perpetrators, we should release the pepetrator because it is better that someone else die than we keep a proven murderer behind bars with plenty of food, weight lifting equipment and cable TV. Oh, I almost forgot. We should pass lots of laws that prevent the victims from obtaining weapons to defend themselves with. To prevent the lion from obtaining weapons (in the unlikely event that it should need one) we will post a sign that says, "No weapons allowed". In case that sign is ignored by the perpetrator, we should post another sign that says. "It is unlawful to kill Humans". The sign will probably not do any good and take money away from apprehending murderers but it will make the rest of us feel better about ourselves. Patrick (better than you are because I'm liberal and have compassion for criminals but none for victims) Tracy Jerry Rhodes wrote: "DH" wrote in message . Do we kill bears that have attacked humans? Yes What's the manner we deal with mountain lions? Get the dogs, run it down and shoot it. How should this be handled? Just like I said. They got the dogs, ran it down and shot it. Pumas/cougars/panthers/mountain lions are not an endagered species. When an animal starts attacking humans it has entered my very personal ecological niche and I kill it. I don't fault the lion for it is doing what is natural(hunting prey) and I don't fault myself for I am doing what is natural for me (self defense). Jerry (top of the food chain) Rhodes |
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Edward Dolan wrote:
There is no more dangerous creature on the face of the earth than man himself. Help! I'm agreeing with Ed!! Were I a Calfornia cyclist, I'd be far more worried about cars than cats. -- Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/ Who nearly ran over a small bear in Yosemite last year. ================================================== ========= Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter http://www.bhpc.org.uk/ ================================================== ========= |
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Jonathan Swift was satire?
Oh my God! I've got to email the relatives back in Ireland to quite selling their young. Edward Dolan wrote: Tracy wrote in message ... Your ideas make perfect sense, but since we're talking California, we should probably follow mine instead. [...] Apparently everyone on this newsgroup has read Jonathan Swift as I have never encountered so much satire since leaving a college English class 40 years ago. And it is darn good satire too. Ed Dolan - Minnesota |
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does anyone know if that was a female mountain lion, talking on a cell
phone? Dave Larrington wrote: Edward Dolan wrote: There is no more dangerous creature on the face of the earth than man himself. Help! I'm agreeing with Ed!! Were I a Calfornia cyclist, I'd be far more worried about cars than cats. -- Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/ Who nearly ran over a small bear in Yosemite last year. ================================================== ========= Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter http://www.bhpc.org.uk/ ================================================== ========= |
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Like the Hoagie Carmichael song. "A little bitty bug is gonna get you
someday". Jerry (close to the top of the food chain) Rhodes Jerry, I'm a professional musician (jazz piano) and I love HC ... what song are they the lyrics to? They really do not strike a bell. |
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:31:48 -0000, "Dave Larrington"
wrote: Edward Dolan wrote: There is no more dangerous creature on the face of the earth than man himself. Help! I'm agreeing with Ed!! Were I a Calfornia cyclist, I'd be far more worried about cars than cats. Yeah, but we're damn lucky that cats lack opposable thumbs, otherwise they'd be hot-wiring SUVs and we'd all be killed. |
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bentbiker wrote:
does anyone know if that was a female mountain lion, talking on a cell phone? Apparently so. She was eating a slice of pizza with the other front paw. -- Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/ ================================================== ========= Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter http://www.bhpc.org.uk/ ================================================== ========= |
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On 11 Jan 2004 17:12:52 -0800, (GeoB) wrote:
They believe in shooting, exploding, gassing and poisoning predators. Statistically they are losing the war. More expense fighting them, with less success, as losses to predators mount. So, from the conservationist's standpoint there's not a problem, right? I never understand these arguments. Like I said somewhere, we were really a lot more worried about rattlesnakes. Workers were struck by rattlers fairly often, and you just never knew when one was going to turn up unexpectedly. Snakebite kits were mandatory. My guess is that a lot more people are probably killed by snakes than lions. Well maybe not anymore, with anti-venom readily available. Most of the strikes are in tall grass or alfalfa (often during the process of "changing pipe" for irrigation). We used to have to carry the pipe, and then fiddle with it to recouple the sections together. I guess they don't do that anymore, either. http://www.demosophia.com |
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