Yogi saves man, kills cougar...

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Bob was hiking near the river when he saw a bear that he’d seen twice before. And he says that was exactly the key to his survival that day: the bear knew exactly who he was.
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A lot of moronic granola cruncher anthropomorphizing going on in this tall tale. I think the lion figured our boy Bob, all fattened up from the carbs in his granola and, no doubt, dumbed down by the diet, was a tastier and far less threatening target than two bear cubs with a protective mama. The bear didn't see Bob as a threat, but surely didn't like the cat being near her cubs. Interesting story, but I don't think we have a philanthropic, man loving bear here. :rolleyes:
 
I'll go one step further. I don't think there was any attack. Too much is wrong and too much is too perfect. Being 40 feet from a sow and cubs isn't like to be a safe distance to begin with, thought it could happen, but isn't likely. Being pounced on by a cat that just happens to only attack his backpack and so no injuries to him occurred, nor did any occur when the bear attacked the cat that was on him.

He was supposedly bruised from the attack, but the bruises weren't shown (in any of the clips of Bob that I have seen). His bloody clothing and backpack were taken by fish and game and don't appear in any of the vids despite the fact that the material was supposedly taken by Fish and Game AFTER most of his interviews had been completed. All he had to show for the attacked was his rock hammer that he used to hit the cat in the head, only the hammer isn't bloody. Of course, there were no other witnesseses. Fish and Game's initial examination of the evidence indicated that there was nothing consistent with being attacked by a mountain lion, much less by beating it in the head and then the lion being attacked by a bear.
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...ptical-but-hiker-sticks-by-lion-attack-tale/1
 
If a 100 lb mountain lion got hold of him there would surely be puncture wounds if the battle lasted as long as he said it did.
 
This mountain lion grabs me from the left side of the rear and climbs up on my back and just starts shaking.”
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Cats don't do that. They either peirce the spine or suffocate by crushing the trachia; They do not shake their prey like a canine.

I pretty much laughed all the way through that story. Not one of his claims is in-step with reality. I think he woke up from a dream and senility left him unable to separate it from reality. Or maybe he dropped his LSD in his granola bowl by accident and then went hiking.........
 
Cats don't do that
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Actually, they sometmes do.

http://www.cougarinfo.org/attacks.htm
29 April. At about 7:00 p.m., Joshua Walsh, age 5, was mauled by a mountain lion near Canyon Lake, some 30 miles northeast of Phoenix. Without warning, and near a parking lot and boat dock filled with people, the mountain lion attacked Joshua, bit him on the head and began to shake him with its jaws and drag him away.
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Attack on dog where the mountain shook it by the throat...
http://lincolnjournalinc.com/mountain-lion-attacks-in-lincoln-p7044-1.htm

Grabbed by neck and shaken...
http://comingbackalive.com/animalcougars.html

However in the OP story, it was the pack being shaken. That seems extremely odd as if the cat didn't know the difference between the man and the pack.
 
I'm calling bovine scat on this one. It sounds like a story made up by a hippie green nut just to try and make it look like "not all animals that attack are bad!"

Like really. The mountain lion goes for the pack? Seriously. Unless it's loaded with fresh meat I'm sure the hiking would have been a much fresher meal...
 
The mountain lion goes for the pack? Seriously. Unless it's loaded with fresh meat I'm sure the hiking would have been a much fresher meal...
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There is no indication that carnivores make that sort of high level evaluative decision between which meat would be fresh or fresher when starting an attack.

Interestingly, in bear attacks, the bears sometimes actually do go after the pack.

FYI, the analysis of the pack is done. No mountain lion DNA (from blood or saliva) found. No mountain lion hairs found. No signs at the location of the alledged attack that the bears and mountain lion were there.

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/ne...s-show-no-evidence-mountain-lion-attack-hiker
 
Double Naught Spy said:
There is no indication that carnivores make that sort of high level evaluative decision between which meat would be fresh or fresher when starting an attack.

Interestingly, in bear attacks, the bears sometimes actually do go after the pack.
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Bears and mountain lions aren't exactly the same thing... Bears like to win a fight by ripping their opponent to shreds, and if your wearing a backpack, well then it becomes part of the opponent. Mountain lions try to kill as quickly and easily as possible, which is 99% of the time the neck area, which would cause paralysis and extremely rapid bleed out.


The chances of a mountain lion attacking the backpack first goes against everything their instinct tells them to do. All it really serves in the story is a baseline for mister yuppie there to get a bear involved to "save him". :rolleyes:

FYI, the analysis of the pack is done. No mountain lion DNA (from blood or saliva) found. No mountain lion hairs found. No signs at the location of the alledged attack that the bears and mountain lion were there.

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/ne...s-show-no-evidence-mountain-lion-attack-hiker
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Pretty supporting of the "yea right" view going on here... ;)
 
This smells just like a fish story.

Mountain lions grab the back of the neck and do not let go, no matter what.

The old man is still alive.

Ergo there was no big cat.

And no DNA is a dead giveaway too. The old man probably did not think of that when he cooked up the fish story.

Either he was smoking dope or he took way too much of his prescription medication when he dreamed all this up.
 
I think there's a 99% chance this story is a tall tale. It doesn't comport with any black bear sow behavior I've ever seen or heard of. Nor do his wounds appear to be anywhere near severe enough to be from a cougar attack.
 
Here's a pic of bruises on the man's arm, and a video of his personal account.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/man-attacked-by-mountain-lion-saved-by-bear/
WL officials investigatiing the incident, claimed that the backpack was torn, ripped, and only his blood was found, but not much, & what was found was inconsisitent with what one would "expect" the pack to look like. The man claimed the pack was left outside in the rain, and most of the evidence had been washed away in the week that passed between the attack and investigation.

Hoax or no Hoax, He's sticking to the story 100%.
 
Let me see if I got this right. He was in a cat house cheating on the wife. There was a dispute over the bill and he made up the story to explain any scratches or bruises. Have I left anything out?
 
Let me see if I got this right. He was in a cat house cheating on the wife. There was a dispute over the bill and he made up the story to explain any scratches or bruises. Have I left anything out?
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Your version sounds more credible.

Here's a pic of bruises on the man's arm, and a video of his personal account.
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My pop is thin skinned like that. His arms can look a lot like that the day after clearing briars and brush.
 
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