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The following hoax appeared in my inbox this morning:
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FYI, some believe a conspiracy is a foot and that the KS wildlife secretly introduced a number of these into the KS wild. They deny it, this is the second case of one being killed in the last year. One was also hit by a car crossing a hi-way. Numerous sightings of these big cats have occurred in the last year with numerous pictures and statements by creditable people. I guess they could be aliens.
Big Cats in Kansas
This mountain lion was shot near Leon, KS. This guy was going deer
hunting when he heard his neighbors cows making noises. He discovered this cat attacking some calves. He shot it and reportedly the cat jumped eight feet into the air, ran about 100 yards and died. The man in the picture is over 6 feet tall and the cat weighed over 200 pounds.
Don't believe I would want to meet one of these in a dark alley.
Let's see the Kansas Fish & Game laugh this one off.
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Here's the picture that was attached:
Uh forget about "Dark alleys." The only place I want to meet up with one of these is either at the zoo, or when I'm well armed in the field.
As I said, this may be a hoax, but several individuals claim they have seen one of these running around my home town. Scat collected from a wooded area across the street from my house has been sent to a lab for DNA analysis and the result was that it came from a big cat, though Kansas game officials still deny the claims. For what purpose?
Here's more info from a local fish wrap.
The golf course mentioned in some of the articles is the same golf course where my children and I go for walks nearly every night. Shouldn't I be allowed to carry a handgun in the event this thing things my daughters would make a fitting meal?
Posted 04/20/04 1:05 pm
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On or about 04/20/04 3:56 pm randy from http://www.reames.org added:
One time my roomate and I saw a deer running through the alley just East of New Hampshire near 10 or 11 street, or somewhere close to there. This was around 93 or 94. It's common to see racoons and other smaller critters around town. But deer and now a mountain lion.
Maybe they should stop cutting down all the forest area on the western part of the city.
On or about 04/20/04 4:47 pm Dave from http://insipid.com added:
My girls and I have scared many deer out of the woods on west campus. Three times I've seen them in my own backyard or my neighbor's yard. We live right across the street from West Campus, which as you may remember, is heavily wooded and largely undeveloped.
There's a small creek that runs through West Campus. During the late summer it's usually dry and I've seen tens of deer tracks in there, deer can follow that creek bed all the way out to Clinton Lake.
Two years ago, I saw the remains of a small fawn torn to pieces in that creek bed. It was probably dead a few days. At the time, I assumed she'd fallen and broken a leg and died there only to be consumed by the coyotes I frequently see running around over there at night.
When people claimed they'd seen a mountain lion on West Campus it occured to me that the fawn may have been killed by a big cat.
A mountain lion attacked an 18 year old man in downtown Boulder, CO last year. For months people claimed they'd seen one running around town, but most people didn't buy it, until the cat tried to eat one of them for dinner.
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