The Internet, bringing me into contact with the lower forms of culture on a daily basis, has done bad things to me. (Those who knew me pre-Internet are probably laughing — I was never exactly a connoisseur of high culture). Anyway, the Terre Haute TribStar had a headline that said “Vigo resident reports cougar sighting.” My first thought was that someone saw an attractive older lady which is a fine thing for the person involved, but generally not the stuff of local news. Turns out the cougar was of the feline variety and may well be a 7 year old, wild cougar that escaped from the Clay County exotic feline rescue center in January 2007.
I hope the TribStar wrote “sighting”, not “siting”.
Sighting.
Fixed. My mistake.
Cougars do put a little crimp in the old “trails” enjoyment, though.
Good one, excuse me while I wipe up the coffee.
Oh, I don’t know. I’ve seen plenty of cougars on the Monon, and they certainly enhance the experience for me.
The MILFs, too.
Mayor Daley’s summer house in Michigan was almost torched because the Chicago Police Department had to shoot and kill a loose cougar in a north Chicago neighborhood. Some whack-job thought it could have been “steered” out of the city, and sent threatening letters to the mayor. Then the arson happened, that did destroy a couple of other houses.
Of course Terre Haute’s “cougar” sighting could just be the new “Sex and the City” movie!