The cougar had padded out of the woods of Griffith Park sometime after midnight Monday and taken refuge in the dark, shallow space under the contemporary, white-walled home of Jason and Paula Archinaco.
By midday, two workers installing a security system as part of a home renovation climbed into the crawl space. One worker quickly came uncomfortably close — eyeball-to-eyeball close — with the cat.
Armando Navarrete, a team leader with Los Angeles Animal Services who was the first wildlife official on the scene in Los Feliz, said the mountain lion was about 25 feet behind a wall separating the crawl space from a balcony under the house.
The worker who discovered the animal looked as white as a ghost, Navarrete said, and had gotten out of there “like a bat out of hell.”
The worker who discovered the animal looked as white as a ghost, Navarrete said, and had gotten out of there “like a bat out of hell.”
I'll bet he did.
It's a LION.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, best show it some respect.
I remember Barbara. That was a shock.
ReplyDeleteThey eat people in Southern California. Every year or so one gets a taste for human flesh and kills or maims a few people. They especially like to pull down people on bicycles riding through the nature preserves.
ReplyDeleteMy sister-in-law rode on one of those trails within an hour of one eating incident. She was opposed to private ownership of firearms before that. Now she carries a Glock 21 when she goes riding. Isn't it amazing how a solid dose of reality changes hearts?
Plus, she picked a good sidearm. Good on her.
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