Both cyclists were women.
Ping to Jaz and George: Interesting twist from this near month-old story. Prior to this article, all the other articles insinuated these cyclists were men.
Modern journalism at its fakest, per usual.
Thanks for the information.
More ways to publish fake news.
Fake is correct, you’d think Seattle media would jump on the tranny angle.
This attack is very similar to one that happened in Orange County, CA in January of 2004.
A lady mountain biker was severely injured but was saved by fellow bikers, she was not a tranny but a former Marine. During a search after the attack a body of a male was found that the cougar had killed earlier.
On the thread in the link below is her webpage link that has a pic of Anne Hjelle, her husband and young daughter 13 years after the attack, post #17.
excerpt from article of thread:
“Barreling down Cactus Hill Trail, a narrow dirt path that slices through tall brush and fields of cactuses, Hjelle saw a blur leaping from the brush. She thought she had startled a deer. But then the mountain lion hit her “like a train.”
She remembers everything. The silence of the attack. The color of the lion’s fur. Her prayer for Jesus’ protection as the amazingly strong cat dragged her toward a ravine.
Nicholls tossed her bike at the mountain lion. Then she grabbed her friend’s left calf, locked in a fierce tug of war with the animal.
The cat’s jaws moved in a series of bites to the front of Hjelle’s neck. The cougar ripped at the left side of her face, the chunk of skin hanging by a flap. Hjelle realized that if she survived, she would be disfigured. For a split second, she wondered if she’d be better off dead.
The lion’s jaws squeezed her windpipe, choking her. Before passing out, she told Nicholls, “I’m going to die.”
Hjelle awoke moments later choking on her own blood and trying to figure out why three mountain bikers were standing nearby with rocks in their hands. Drawn by the screams of both women, they had thrown softball-sized rocks at the cat and driven it away.
Though they didn’t yet know it, the body of mountain biker Mark Reynolds was lying just off the trail. He had been killed hours earlier by the same cougar.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2016494/posts