Friday, February 6, 2015

Mountain Lion Attacks Canadian Pipeline Crew, Fought Off with Bare Fists

 Stephen Campbell counts himself lucky after surviving a vicious mountain lion attack last week.

Perhaps nowhere else is the term “safety in numbers” more apt than in the wild. Very few animals, from the cunning coyote to the massive mound of muscle that is a grizzly bear, will attack groups of humans without provocation. However, a pipeline crew operating 55 miles south of Grande Prairie, Alberta found out that there are exceptions to that “rule.” According to the Edmonton Journal, a mountain lion stalked and ambushed a crew of pipeline workers in a forested area on Friday, inflicting serious but non-life threatening injuries upon two men.

Stephen Campbell, 31, one of the victims, told Global News that it was the most terrifying experience of his life.

“I felt a weight on my back and I thought, initially, one of the boys was coming around to horse around,” Campbell said. “Then I felt the cougar bite into my skull and sink its claws into the sides of my face.”

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4 comments:

  1. Because in Canada you are not allowed to defend yourself with a gun.

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  2. The mountain lion is probably desperate for food, because of "global warming" the moose population has been decimated.

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/y2kyoto-ill-mis-63.html

    During a $750,000 research effort to blame "global warming"...

    "In response to the dramatic decline of moose in northeastern Minnesota, over 100 moose were equipped with radio-collars that could alert biologists to the moose's impending death, allowing biologists to account for the deaths of 35 calves and 19 adults. [...] 13 calves (37%) calves died due to mother abandonment. Eleven were caused when the mothers abandoned the calve during the act of attaching the collars, 2 were abandoned later."

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    1. Of course, silly me, why didn't I think of that.........? :)

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