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Bobcat that attacked Massachusetts family was rabid, officials say
USNews/NBC.com ^ | 1/9/2013 | Daniel Arkin

Posted on 01/09/2013 7:56:15 PM PST by South40

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They managed to pin a rabid bobcat to the ground?! Wow.
1 posted on 01/09/2013 7:56:19 PM PST by South40
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To: South40

Yikes!!!!


2 posted on 01/09/2013 7:58:11 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: South40

An AR-15 or Mini-14 firing 223 ammo from an extended magazine would have probably saved them from those painful and extended anti-rabies treatment.


3 posted on 01/09/2013 7:58:46 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Save the nation, have your family's progressives spayed or neutered.)
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To: South40

Oh man, they should have called the cops.


4 posted on 01/09/2013 8:00:13 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: South40

Expect an executive order in the morning banning bobcats.

And rabies.


5 posted on 01/09/2013 8:04:33 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR: Now, More Than Ever.)
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To: South40

So it is a Kennedy.


6 posted on 01/09/2013 8:05:41 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Oh man, they should have called the cops.

I'm sure that's what DiFi would have done.

7 posted on 01/09/2013 8:06:57 PM PST by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: South40

Good thing it wasnt a ‘gun-free’ zone!


8 posted on 01/09/2013 8:13:06 PM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, dammed lies, statistics, and democrap talking points.)
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Rabid?

(Just hasn't been himself since he lost "Wing" and "Ding.")

9 posted on 01/09/2013 8:29:48 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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So the next thing I expect to read about is how the wife is going to be prosecuted for having an unregistered handgun.


10 posted on 01/09/2013 8:30:39 PM PST by technically right
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To: South40
They managed to pin a rabid bobcat to the ground?! Wow.

It's amazing what Americans can do.

Sorry the guy has to get the shots. But he'll have great scars and a story for the grandkids.

"We beat that sumbitch with yer granny's crutch and held it down until granny could fetch the pistol"

Oh yeah. He keeps his man card and gets a 'story' punch on his ticket.

/johnny

11 posted on 01/09/2013 8:30:52 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Wow!
Normally the only way you could get attacked by a Bobcat is if you were fast enough to run and catch it.

We caught one in our big humane trap last year...it was WILD! I suspect it was what had been pilfering chickens.

BTW.. look at the interesting Bobcat image my friend caught with his game camera.


12 posted on 01/09/2013 8:32:18 PM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: South40

I have to say that of all the wild animals I’ve ever encountered, bobcats make me the most uneasy. They just aren’t afraid of people.


13 posted on 01/09/2013 8:34:38 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Marcella
For your edification. I wouldn't mind having this guy for a neighbor.

/johnny

14 posted on 01/09/2013 8:36:48 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: ElkGroveDan
I worry more about ferals at the mall.

/johnny

15 posted on 01/09/2013 8:39:19 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Bobalu

Great pic. Living at the end of a dirt road in the back country of East San Diego County for the last 30 years I have a few bobcat stories of my own. But after reading this story I’ll save them for another day as they just don’t seem to compare.


16 posted on 01/09/2013 8:48:12 PM PST by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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Armed citizen ping!

I needed to shoot a rabid ‘coon last June.


17 posted on 01/09/2013 8:49:20 PM PST by lightman (If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
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To: South40; kanawa
They cheated, they shot him.

A real man woulda used a knife...

18 posted on 01/09/2013 8:49:29 PM PST by null and void (Avg # victims per incident, if shooter stopped by armed civilian: 3, if stopped by a policeman: 14)
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To: Bobalu

Is that a rat? The look on its face is priceless!


19 posted on 01/09/2013 9:02:52 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: South40

Mr. Evel Handgun to the rescue!


20 posted on 01/09/2013 9:08:23 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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