Will
PETA let him off based on "stand your ground" laws? In the most epic
instance ever of a jogger fending off an attacker, a man running on
remote mountain trails in Colorado on Monday found himself being trailed
by a mountain lion, only to eventually defeat the attack using merely his bare hands in the life-or-death struggle.
According to now viral reports the
jogger heard movement behind him on the trail and the moment he turned
around the mountain lion lunged. The man fought off the big cat after it
jumped on him, sustaining non-life threatening bites and injuries to
his face and wrist, for which he reportedly was taken to the hospital. Getty imageHowever the outcome to the near deadly attack is summarized in the following report, which sounds straight out of The Onion, but believe it or not is NPR:"The
man killed the animal by suffocating it, according to Colorado Parks
and Wildlife's Northeast Region. Exactly how he did so wasn't
immediately clear."
Though the mountain lion didn't come out alive, the jogger's
condition is said to be "serious" after he made it off the trail to seek
help of his own accord but he's expected to make a fast recovery. The
incident took place inside Horsetooth Mountain Park in northern
Colorado, and the runner's identity has yet to be confirmed.
Interestingly, it appears the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW)was initially skeptical of the man's account, namely
that he suffocated the mountain lion with his bare hands and having no
other weapon, until an autopsy (or necropsy) was done on the animal.
After additional investigation, including examination of the lion, we have confirmed the victim's account that he was able to suffocate the animal while defending himself from the attack.
After additional investigation,
including examination of the lion, we have confirmed the victim's
account that he was able to suffocate the animal while defending himself
from the attack.
“It’s an amazing story. Everyone is baffled and impressed,” Rebecca Ferrell, spokeswoman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, told The Denver Post. “He had no weapons, no knives or trekking poles with him. How did he do it? It’s pretty rare. That is definitely a twist on this, I’m sure.”
Park officials were later able to locate the animal's body as well as
items left behind by the fleeing jogger. The CPW later said the
mountain lion weighed at least 80 pounds and described it as a
"juvenile" after an examination at a state health lab.
It’s unclear whether the runner — who has not yet been identified publicly — strangled or smothered the mountain lion.
He had no weapons, so he killed the cat with his bare, bleeding hands
after climbing on top of the animal, state wildlife officials said. — The Denver Post
“Mountain lion attacks are not common in Colorado and it is
unfortunate that the lion’s hunting instincts were triggered by the
runner,” Ty Petersburg, area wildlife manager for Colorado Parks and
Wildlife described in an official CPW news release. “This could have had a very different outcome.”
Park officials said further that "Mountain lion attacks on people are
rare, with fewer than 20 fatalities in North America in more than 100
years." And specifically in Colorado the CPW reported that since 1990 the state has had "16 injuries as a result of mountain lion attacks, and three fatalities."
We expect PETA to weigh in at any moment... on the side of the deceased mountain lion.
[Ed; behavenet.com will provide you the Psychiatric Diagnostic Criteria and Insurer Billing Code Numbers on these Anti-Constitutional, Recalled, Sore Losers if you want to take a few minutes to look them up. It really Is that easy to Cannibalize another human being, for money, if that's what your Pharma U. purchased work license authorizes you to do.] COLORADO SPRINGS -- Quick, call the CDC. We've got a Rocky Mountain outbreak of Acute Sore Loser Fever. After failing to stave off two historic recall bids on Tuesday, two delusional state legislators and their national party bosses just can't help but double-down and trash voters as dumb, sick, criminal and profligate.
The ululations of gun-grabbing Democrats here in my adopted home state are reverberating far and wide. Appearing on cable TV Thursday to answer the question "What happened?" Pueblo State Sen. Angela Giron sputtered that she lost her seat due to "voter suppression." Giron whined to CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin that voters "weren't able to get to the polls" and that there was "voter confusion."
"Voter confusion"? My goodness. You'd think there were no public libraries, local television stations, talk radio, newspapers, blogs, Facebook, Twitter or government websites to get information about the elections. (Oh, and pay no attention to the massive 6-to-1 spending advantage that Giron and her fellow recall target John Morse, formerly the president of the state Senate, enjoyed.)
"Voter suppression"? Dios mio! You'd think there were New Black Panther Party thugs standing outside the polls shouting racist epithets and waving police batons!
But no, there was no "voter confusion" or "voter suppression." In fact, as the Colorado Peak Politics blog pointed out, the "majority of turnout in (Giron's) district was Democrat, by a large margin. And she still lost. Voter suppression (is) not even believable."
Giron lost in her Obama-loving Democratic Senate District 3 by a whopping 12 points. The only significant complaint about voter suppression came after the polls closed -- and not from anyone in the district, but from out-of-state Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wah-wah-wah-sserman Schultz of Florida. The majority of constituents who signed the recall petitions against her were, um, Democrats. Would Giron care to argue that voters from the same party that put her in office are too dumb and confused to comprehend her state's own Constitution and election process?
Giron was defeated not by elite Republicans and nefarious NRA bigwigs, but by a former Clinton supporter/police chief/campaign neophyte and a couple of upstart citizen activists who make a living as plumbers.
Grassroots organizers in both Pueblo and El Paso counties with little to no previous electoral experience researched the state constitution's recall provisions and put in the hard nose-to-the-ground work of gathering thousands of petition signatures in a brief period. They did their homework, adhered to the law and made their voices heard. As I've reported in my column over the past several months, it was a David vs. gun-grabbing Goliath battle from the start.
Only after the local citizens got the ball rolling -- catching flack from establishment GOP types who initially opposed the disruptive process -- did national organizations weigh in with help. And the campaign cash they provided was still no match for nosybody Bloomberg, Vice President Joe Biden (who personally lobbied state Democratic legislators) and their gun control-freak company.
The significance of this unprecedented battle cannot be overstated. Self-government won. Demagoguery lost. All the Bloomberg bucks in the world couldn't buy immunity for his water-carriers in Colorado. The role of Second Amendment-supporting, limited-government-advocating local women in pushing back against false smears was invaluable. The "reproductive rights" fear-mongering failed. And the use of social media to organize echoed other successful tea party efforts.
The problem for the gun-grabbers wasn't that the voters were uninformed. It was that they were (SET ITAL) too (END ITAL) informed. Voters paid close attention when state Democrats rigged the game during the legislative debate over extreme gun and ammo restrictions that will do nothing to stop the next Aurora, Columbine or Newtown. They watched fellow citizens being blocked from testifying, pushed aside for out-of-staters. They heard Morse accuse gun owners of having a "sickness in their souls." They heard him brag to liberal zealots that he was ignoring their "vile" e-mail.
They rejected Giron's sneering at grassroots organizers as "special interests." They didn't buy that their birth control would disappear. They weren't swayed by shooting victim Rep. Gabby Gifford's husband's emotional appeals or distracted by Bill Clinton's last-minute robocalls.
"What happened?" The reasons these petty tyrants lost are as simple as ABC: arrogance, bitterness and contempt for the people. As more and more self-empowered citizens are learning, you can't fix this stupid hubris. But you can vote it out.
Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies" (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.
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Thank You Ms. Malkin and Townhall.
"The reasons these petty tyrants lost are as simple as ABC: arrogance, bitterness and contempt for the people. As more and more self-empowered citizens are learning, you can't fix this stupid hubris. But you can vote it out."
