"A mountain lion that stealthily crept within a few feet of a Calaveras County sheriff’s deputy Tuesday night was described as being in “attack mode.”
Deputy Jeff Whiting was walking through San Andreas Cemetery on Pixley Avenue near Calaveras High School at about 11:30 p.m. while investigating a report of a suspicious person shining a flashlight around the graveyard.
Whiting, and Deputies Devin Stevens and Jim Moser, were all approaching the cemetery from different directions in order to form a perimeter, when Whiting noticed a strange shadow in his peripheral vision.
“He shined his light in that direction and saw a big mountain lion,” said Sgt. Chris Hewitt of the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office.
Whiting got on his radio and instructed the other two deputies to get back inside their vehicles immediately. He then turned to walk toward his own vehicle.
As he walked toward his patrol car, he felt an unexplainable urge to turn around, Hewitt said, despite not hearing a thing as the cat snuck up behind him.
“He spun around and saw this lion crouched with its ears pinned back ready to attack literally within feet of him,” Hewitt said. “He yelled at the cat, shined his light in its eyes and drew his weapon.”
It's kinda like living in Kenya, Never know when the lions might jump you.
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