[meteorite-list] 2nd Report from Strewnfield in Edgewood Texas

From: Art <blurtheline_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:15:01 -0800
Message-ID: <CAPSxA6__G0D0_fb-612fs0AM9U8Vzv8OK-81hWK587kfbp=E6Q_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Folks, I think this off-topic thread has run its course.

Regards, Art

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:57 AM, <GeoZay at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Sterling>>I make the perfect expert ?for this dispute because I
> am not a frontiersman and know nothing about ?lions,
> cougars, pards, and whatnot. Knowing nothing, I
> was forced to ?GoogleStorm the question of "mountain
> lion" shoe-size.<<
>
> Well ?after going over what Sterling dug up, it would seem that what eric
> seen in ?florida is within the realm of possibility. I sure would love to
> have found the ?photos that were taken of the two mountain lions killed at my
> father in laws ?place. I looked high and low. The big interest in those
> photos were the size of ?its head and front paws compared to my father in laws
> hands. Perhaps the furry ?part on its paws made it look larger than the foot
> print producing pads? During ?that period (In the late 1980's and early
> 1990's), there was an incident about 2 ?miles from my in laws place where a
> mountain lion swatted the butt of a 4 year ?old kid at Cuyamaca State Park while
> camping. the lion came right into camp and ?attacked the kid. This was all
> caught on video. A park ranger shot and killed ?it. within a year or two of
> this, a mountain lion killed a woman hiker within ?cuyamaca Park. I can't
> remember if this one was killed or not. We had a woman ?friend of ours who was
> hiking in Cuyamaca that suddenly had a lion appear on the ?trail about ten
> feet from her. She did a series of things that did no ?good...such as holler
> at it, blow a loud whistle and wave her arms. She said the ?lion just sat
> there looking at her. Finally out of desperation she hit it in the ?head with
> her walking stick and it turned and trotted off. While living in Texas ?many
> years ago, I often heard stories about mountain lion attacks or the threat
> of them, but never heard of one caught or killed there. I'm sure they were
> around, but I didn't feel threatened. They probably had plenty of food
> around to ?be much of a threat to humans.
> George Zay
>
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