http://gothamist.com/2011/06/16/paranoid_connecticut_seeing_mountai.php
Ever since that beautiful mountain lion was run down outside Greenwich earlier this week, the well-heeled residents of the posh suburb have been totally paranoid, man, claiming more big cats are nipping at their Ferragamo-clad heels every step of the way. But just because you're paranoid, don't mean the mountain lions aren't after you. Look out, Muffy, there's one right behind you!
Despite the fact that the eastern mountain lion is allegedly extinct,residents just keep calling the cops about them, or whatever subspecies these are. One woman said walking her dog when a mountain lion being chased by two dogs ran in front of her (happens all the time!), while an employee at the local golf course said he saw one of the magnificent creatures on a stone wall. A Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said there was no evidence found at either site, but still! If there are other cats out there, they're presumably out to avenge their fallen brother, whom officials believe may have escaped from illegal domestic captivity.
It's a change of pace from earlier this month, pre-lion mow-down, when Greenwich residents seemed relatively unfazed by the prospect of a mountain lion in their midst, with one jovial golfer joking that he felt safe because he had a "bag full of weapons" with him on the course. Get it?! For what it's worth, the DEP recommends that should you wind up face-to-face with a mountain lion, "be loud, stand tall, wave [your] arms and throw sticks and stones" at it.
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