Lion attacks runner

[washerman]

In the Sundarbans in Bangladesh when the locals travel they walk single file and the last man wears a human mask on the back of his head because apparently tigers won't attack when their prey is looking at them. It eliminates the element of surprise for the big cats. Might look kinda stupid but if i was hiking in colorado I'd have eyes in the back of my head...literally!

 

[jlrhiner]

How about not running. So far, its worked for me.........

 

[TX-Dennis]

Definitely fight back. Don't curl up into a ball and hope it will go away. It sounds like he did everything right. Of course I would have been carrying (okay, I wouldn't have been running either), but it would be difficult to draw with a big cat chewing on and clawing you.

 

[TX-Dennis]

This isnt way up in the mountains!
Horse Tooth Open Space is located in the foothills near Ft. Collins, CO.
Horse Tooth being a rock formation that looks like a what?

A bunch of rocks?

 

[Tom S.]

Duplicate threads merged!

 

[Cardboard_killer]

This isnt way up in the mountains!

For the same reason bank robbers rob banks, that's why mountain lions don't live way up in the mountains.

 

[two-bit cowboy]

We've had a mom and her cubs around since spring. Always on watch.

I love the media: "they rarely attack humans." Only takes once!

Our lot must have done well on bunnies and such 'cause they haven't come close to any of us. Ya' think they know better?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Another reason to sit on the couch, drink beer and watch TV! (Like I need another reason).

I, too, am in this camp. Unless a mountain lion can pick a lock, I'm good.

 

[handejector]

My grandfather told me of a woman that killed a Panther(Louisiana), sometime in the early 1900's, by "choking it down" with her apron strings.

They say he suffocated the cat, but aren't quite sure how yet-
RELATED: How the trail runner attacked by a mountain lion in Larimer County killed the animal

 

[vytoland]

when i was a small child i saw my grandmother kill a 25 foot python with her babushka and a bowl of Pierogi.....

 

[Absalom]

As I always point out in these threads about mountain lions:

Cougars are not killing machines. And, probably due to the fact that their normal prey is four-legged and anatomically quite different, cougars appear to be lousy at taking down upright humans.

If you look at the data, the vast majority of cougar attacks end with various levels of injuries, but rarely death. Most adults attacked by cougars are able to fight them off, and even if not there are always signs of a struggle. And while it's definitely remarkable, a grown man desperate enough certainly has the body mass to smother and strength to strangle one.

One-jump take-downs of human prey from behind, breaking their neck and it's over, require the body mass and strength of the large cats. Man-eating tigers kill like that, cougars can't.

 

[oneounceload]

And yet cougars have attacked numerous cross country skiers in the Tahoe basin over the years - always from above and behind. A 150# cat landing on you from above and without warning can most certainly inflict serious, if not lethal, damage.

 

[Absalom]

And yet cougars have attacked numerous cross country skiers in the Tahoe basin over the years - always from above and behind. A 150# cat landing on you from above and without warning can most certainly inflict serious, if not lethal, damage.

The fact that apparently none of those were fatal nicely illustrates my point. Or do you have data on one I've missed?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

We have several thousand Mountain Lions here in NM.
Attacks do occur, but not that often.
This is the last death that I could find.
Pinos Altos is down in SE NM near Silver City.

Robert Nawojski, 55, male June 24, 2008 Searchers found his body on this date near his mobile home in Pinos Altos, New Mexico. Investigators concluded that he had been attacked and killed by a cougar several days earlier.

 

[yaktamer]

They say he suffocated the cat, but aren't quite sure how yet-
RELATED: How the trail runner attacked by a mountain lion in Larimer County killed the animal

I've read that in the event you are in a fight for your life with a large dog if nothing else works you should shove your arm as far into its throat as you can and hang on to suffocate it. Not planning to test the theory.

 

[6518John]

One has to be aware of the surroundings. I caught this Preadator waiting to jump me coming to the dinner table with a full plate to attack me and steal my food. I diverted the attack with my laser pointer.

 

[two-bit cowboy]

... cougars appear to be lousy at taking down upright humans.

If you look at the data, the vast majority of cougar attacks end with various levels of injuries, but rarely death.

Inasmuch as I can appreciate the science, my friend, I don't want the experience. If I can maintain my awareness while I'm in the woods the cat will not have a chance to prove your theory to me.

I fell walking down a steep, icy hill a few weeks ago. My knee and ankle took the worst of it, and I was sore for a week. I don't want to know how it feels to survive a puma attack.

 

[yaktamer]

Guy's wife: "I told you to buy a treadmill!"

 

[Golddollar]

This was in Colorado, where many people are very health conscious.

The runner whipped out a handful of kale, fed it to the mountain lion, and the big cat gagged to death.

That's hysterical.

 

[Golddollar]

when i was a small child i saw my grandmother kill a 25 foot python with her babushka and a bowl of Pierogi.....

Did she use the babushka for a sling and throw the pierogis?