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Ryan Hughes says he was ice fishing Saturday at Sheridan Lake, and a lion jumped him as he left the ice and stepped into the woods. Hughes says the lion had a fresh kill in its mouth.

This is completely fabricated, IMO. Mountain lions only attack humans if they are very sick or injured and can't get any other prey. They are notorious loners and stay away from humans as much as possible. If this lion just had killed something, there's no way it would even get near this man - unless he was attacking its cubs perhaps.
5 posted on 03/03/2008 11:47:11 AM PST by CottonBall (A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority. "Civil Disobedience", Henry D.Thoreau)
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To: CottonBall

Right, so I guess he gashed his own arms and poked holes in his face just for the heck of it.


6 posted on 03/03/2008 11:49:21 AM PST by Double Tap
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To: CottonBall

There have been mountain lion attacks in Southern California. Of course, you will probably label them as nuts for living here.


11 posted on 03/03/2008 11:57:18 AM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: CottonBall

Timothy Treadwell thought bears were mostly harmless, too.


16 posted on 03/03/2008 12:14:00 PM PST by jwalburg (Gullible warming protesters are self-extinguishing)
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To: CottonBall
This is completely fabricated, IMO. Mountain lions only attack humans if they are very sick or injured and can't get any other prey. They are notorious loners and stay away from humans as much as possible. This is the standard environmentalist mantra, to be repeated endlessly in the face of all opposing evidence.

Have you ever read the book, Mountain Lion Attack, detailing the evidence of attacks over the last 20 years ? I can assure you they were not only sick or injured. Mountain lion populations are on the increase, due to less hunting pressures, and their ranges are expanding. They no longer fear humans, as the new generations have lost the association with being hunted. THey don't fear you, they want to eat you !

19 posted on 03/03/2008 12:22:19 PM PST by Red Boots
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To: CottonBall

If the cat thought the man was after it’s kill, it would almost certainly attack.


20 posted on 03/03/2008 12:27:52 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: CottonBall

“Mountain lions only attack humans if they are very sick or injured and can’t get any other prey”

Youre joking, right?


25 posted on 03/03/2008 12:35:39 PM PST by spanalot
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To: CottonBall

Read the book “Beast in the Garden”. It’s about Mountain lions attacking people in Colorado. The lions were not sick...they had just gotten use to having people around and were not afraid of them as they should have been. It’s a great book. I highly recommend it!


26 posted on 03/03/2008 12:35:40 PM PST by trussell
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To: CottonBall

So what? What sympathy can be wasted on a vicious man hunting carnivore because it may not be in the pink of health? None.


35 posted on 03/03/2008 1:09:53 PM PST by Post Toasties (It's not a smear if it's true.)
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To: CottonBall; girlangler; B4Ranch; LucyT

Got any kids or pets? 

44 posted on 03/19/2008 4:20:47 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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