You're joking, right? Yesssssss... the mountain lions are so overpopulated that they are hunting the humans for something to eat! Little bitty humans, waiting in the dark of daylight savings time at the ends of rural roads in the bus shed with Charlie the lonesome Cougar, sneakin up on 'em for his breakfast.
Another "extreme measure" (cause of the month club = save poor Charley Cougar) submitted to CA's voters by touchy feely EnvironMentalCases, raised on too many Walt Disney movies that humanized all of nature! EVEN TREES!!!
I had a little email debate with some guy who ran a anti mt lion-hunting site. He was trying to say that we should ban cars first because per capita mt lions kill less people. I told him per capita is NOT a legit yardstick... he should compare the number of car trips which is in the several millions per DAY vs. the number of people hiking in the VERY FEW areas where there are mt lions, which is what...a couple hundred a day....
anyone without an agenda (unlike him) would know that deaths per car ride is nothing compared to the deaths in mt lion territory.
Of course being a liberal, he still insisted on using the per capita argument.
Sorry I don't remember the site, I just did a yahoo search on "mt lion attacks" or something to that effect...