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I live in Gahanna - though about four miles away from the latest sighting. I was watching CSI last night when my mom called to inform us about the lion report. We turned the news on to see a friend from church on the local news detailing what was going on. Larry is the chief of detectives. Basically they planned to leave it alone over night becaue they were told that it had probably bedded down for the night.

To answer another question, no, most of the sniper attacks took place around the souther portion of the loop around town (I-270) and Gahanna is a suburb outside I-270 and Northeast of Columbus. The area where the last sighting is located is where the town kinda falls off the map - lots of woods and farmland. It could take a while to catch him, though I thought they may bring in IR and search with that.

I have not heard any updates this afternoon.

By the way, the mascot for the Gahanna Lincoln High School is "The Lions" which has led to speculation this could be a senior year-end prank.

Also, I see someone posted a pic of the movie "Second Hand Lions". Highly recommended.

Well, I dunno. My 5 year old came flying in from school one day many years ago in California and reported breathlessly that a "dog that looks like a tiger" followed him home from school. I assured him that that was not possible until I looked out my window and saw a giant brindle Great Dane holding my elderly neighors captive in their car!

And no kidding! He DID look just like a tiger and was almost as big.

Stanley trotted over when he saw us and came right in the house. He was very sweet, and his tags had his name (Stanley) address and phone number on them. I called his owners all afternoon, trying to return him. At about 5 pm he started "surfing" my kitchen counters for food (after he'd already eaten all the cat's food) and I let him out to go potty. He took off at and easy lope, heading in the direction of the address on his tags (about 3 miles away). When I finally got hold of his owners, they reported that he was already waiting for them when they got home from work. Seems that he liked to roam when they were gone.

I hope that your "lion" is just a Great Dane or a Mastiff taking a stroll and that no trigger happy cop shoots it.