Mountain Lion Killed in Downtown Santa Monica

[Greg C]

Had to remind myself. I violate this one regularly. Shrug.

[Mark E. Hurling]

I've lost a couple in the last few years at the airport or sports venues where they check you for such things. But on the bright side of losing those others I now have a really nice EZ-out S&W tanto with a serrated edge. But it's only in case I get in a car accident and have to cut myself out of a jammed seatbelt. Honest officer.

[tertius]

I've lost a couple in the last few years at the airport or sports venues where they check you for such things. But on the bright side of losing those others I now have a really nice EZ-out S&W tanto with a serrated edge. But it's only in case I get in a car accident and have to cut myself out of a jammed seatbelt. Honest officer.

I recently acquired a little spyderco. Nicest knife I've ever owned. It's wee (a dragonfly 2) but it'll do most jobs pretty well.

[Mark E. Hurling]

Nice looking blade. Even with the relatively short blade it should manage to either get puma's jugular or get far enough into the back of where the skull joins the spinal column to send it off for a nice dirt nap. Of course even with the knife, any of us are likely to suffer the fate of that stale old joke of a book title, The Tiger's Revenge by Claude Balls.

[Michael Liao]

Mountain lions are not to be fucked with. The cops made the right call.

We humans are the dominant species, the more PC we become the more liberties taken at our expense.

Cops did the right thing...

[Drewcar]

Well, no, obviously. I'm not saying anyone should WANT to have to wrestle a cougar.
I'm just saying a human does have options besides dying horribly, if they've got a little luck on their side.

Once you spot them, your chances go up significantly. It also helps when you are not solo.

I just know that if I were to be taken by surprise by a full grown male, or female for that matter, I would likely be toast.

Just not good to have a cavalier attitude about what they can do

[michael dowling]

I recently acquired a little spyderco. Nicest knife I've ever owned. It's wee (a dragonfly 2) but it'll do most jobs pretty well.

+1 to Spyderco, I've been carrying their knives for years, the stand up to anything, my native that I have spent an entire winter in my pool under the cover, I must have dropped it while tying down the float under the cover, I cleaned it up, put a little grease in it and it's as good as new.

I saw a MTN lion while MTN biking on a trail off the 8 in So Cal, big ass friggin cat, made me nervous as hell, not as scary as the bear I saw camping in the catskills, bears are just friggin scary no doubt about it.

[Drewcar]

+1 to Spyderco, I've been carrying their knives for years, the stand up to anything, my native that I have spent an entire winter in my pool under the cover, I must have dropped it while tying down the float under the cover, I cleaned it up, put a little grease in it and it's as good as new.

I saw a MTN lion while MTN biking on a trail off the 8 in So Cal, big ass friggin cat, made me nervous as hell, not as scary as the bear I saw camping in the catskills, bears are just friggin scary no doubt about it.

A black bear that is not habituated to human food or trash, just runs away. I've even come between cubs and sows. No problem.

[michael dowling]

A black bear that is not habituated to human food or trash, just runs away. I've even come between cubs and sows. No problem.

That's what they say, but when you're like eight feet from a full grown bear all that shit is meaningless they're still fucking frightening, any bear in the catskills is not afraid of humans at all, they're all quite accustom to them, even the deer won't run from you.

[Drewcar]

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That's what they say, but when you're like eight feet from a full grown bear all that shit is meaningless they're still fucking frightening, any bear in the catskills is not afraid of humans at all, they're all quite accustom to them, even the deer won't run from you.

Like I said, "not habituated to human food or trash."

Early in my career I had to assess bear kill in redwood plantations. They eat the cambium of the young trees during spring flush and lap up the sugars like its soda. I literally had dozens of encounters. No problems if you just back away.