Posted on 02/10/2024 9:51:45 AM PST by george76
A cougar attacked a man at a ski resort Sunday outside of Beaver Mountain, Utah, but he was able to fight it off with a snowboard.
Charlie Duffy was walking outside of resort boundaries with his snowboard when he noticed big cat paw prints in the snow, KSL reported. Moments later, unnerved by the paw prints, he looked over his shoulder to see the mountain lion five or six feet away from him. The cat then pounced
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“My fight response instantly kicked in and I grabbed my board in my right hand and swung with full force at the jumping mountain lion,” Duffy said in an Instagram post. “It barely grazed my neck with its claws and got knocked to the ground. The mountain lion proceeded to get back up and come back at me.”
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Photos posted on Instagram show Duffy’s torn jacket where the cougar attacked him. After posting on Instagram, snowboard brands Nitro and 686 pledged to send him some new gear.
The bars at ski resorts are indeed crawling with cougars, I assure you.
Beaver Mtn is a semi-rustic day resort much smaller than the Salt Lake area giants. Colder than Hillary’s eyes.
The boarder was out of bounds, and the cat was probably hungry.
Well, I’d want to see a dead mountain lion, or some video at the very least, before I’d be convinced. I know, it’s almost unheard of that anyone would ever make up a story for social-media attention, but there have been rare cases.
A young singing coach calls her youtube channel “Beth Roars”. She does a cute review of that song:
https://youtu.be/QDeesVYPBsY?si=5NCwH2_m2Cm78oeD
Yeah, saw that a few weeks ago, like the red hair and blue eyes
I was looking for the MAGA version. I know I booked marked on one of my PC’a
Some guy with dyed blonde hair, surfer look
...Joey’s brain is on vacation far away...
...everyone knows 45 will win...
....Joey likes his girls a little bit younger...
That was a great paraody and followed the original melody
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