https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/04/mountain-lion-attack-larimer-county/
This dude is legit.
This dude is legit.
How?
Stuff my nightmares are made of. In my area it’s usually picnickers that get into trouble with the cougars, but I’m always wary running under big rock outcroppings.
I would like to know how this guy managed to survive. Damn lucky.
Lacking details wrote:
How?
How I would do it is by choking it.
Tarzan style is probably best. Get it into a full Nelson to neutralize its teeth and claws, then break its neck.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Tarzan style is probably best. Get it into a full Nelson to neutralize its teeth and claws, then break its neck.
This is a real mountain lion , not a racoon in High Park washing his anus.
Since we don't know the details there is this account of how a man killed a leopard:
The 80-pound cat landed on him. “Her intention was to sink her teeth into my throat and with this grip and her forepaws hang to me while with her hind claws she dug out my stomach, for this pleasant practice is the way of leopards,” Akeley wrote. “However, happily for me, she missed her aim.” The wounded cat had landed to one side; instead of Akeley’s throat in her mouth, she had his upper right arm, which had the fortuitous effect of keeping her hind legs off his stomach.
It was good luck, but the fight of Akeley’s life had just begun.
Using his left hand, he attempted to loosen the leopard’s hold. “I couldn't do it except little by little,” he wrote. “When I got grip enough on her throat to loosen her hold just a little she would catch my arm again an inch or two lower down. In this way I drew the full length of the arm through her mouth inch by inch.”
He felt no pain, he wrote, “only of the sound of the crushing of tense muscles and the choking, snarling grunts of the beast.” When his arm was nearly free, Akeley fell on the leopard. His right hand was still in her mouth, but his left hand was still on her throat. His knees were on her chest and his elbows in her armpits, “spreading her front legs apart so that the frantic clawing did nothing more than tear my shirt.”
It was a scramble. The leopard tried to twist around and gain the advantage, but couldn’t get purchase on the sand. “For the first time,” Akeley wrote, “I began to think and hope I had a chance to win this curious fight.”
He called for the boy, hoping he’d bring a knife, but received no response. So he held on to the animal and “continued to shove the hand down her throat so hard she could not close her mouth and with the other I gripped her throat in a stranglehold.” He bore down with his full weight on her chest, and felt a rib crack. He did it again—another crack. “I felt her relax, a sort of letting go, although she was still struggling. At the same time I felt myself weakening similarly, and then it became a question as to which would give up first.”
Slowly, her struggle ceased. Akeley had won. He lay there for a long time, keeping the leopard in his death grip. “After what seemed an interminable passage of time I let go and tried to stand, calling to the pony boy that it was finished.” The leopard, he later told Popular Science Monthly, had then shown signs of life; Akeley used the boy’s knife to make sure it was really, truly dead."
Most distance runners wouldn't be able to do this. I hate to admit it but we are weaklings. I bet Bekele could destroy a mountain lion if he came across one. If I was attacked I would probably look for a long stick to poke it and throw rocks at it. The biggest thing I've ever killed was a swan though. Luckily there are no mountain lions anywhere near Tulsa.
Kenyan Kiss wrote:
Or this technique...
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Ageing_Farmer_Kills_Leopard_With_Bare_Hands_In_Kenya.html
That aging Kenyan farmer must have been on TRT to be able to do that. Or maybe he isn't that old. Probably ran Juniors a few years ago.
CPW news release on the mountain lion attack:
https://cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Pages/News-Release-Details.aspx?NewsID=6832
In response to a comment on their twitter account, CPW says "He defended himself without the use of weapons."
But did he finish his run?
Nature expert 2015 wrote:
This is a real mountain lion , not a racoon in High Park washing his anus.
Well done! I was thinking nearly the same thing and got a good chuckle.
Banana Bread wrote:
Most distance runners wouldn't be able to do this. I hate to admit it but we are weaklings. I bet Bekele could destroy a mountain lion if he came across one. If I was attacked I would probably look for a long stick to poke it and throw rocks at it. The biggest thing I've ever killed was a swan though. Luckily there are no mountain lions anywhere near Tulsa.
speak for yourself. to make such a statement you are surely a weakling.
Cats and death wrote:
Since we don't know the details there is this account of how a man killed a leopard:
The 80-pound cat landed on him. “Her intention was to sink her teeth into my throat and with this grip and her forepaws hang to me while with her hind claws she dug out my stomach, for this pleasant practice is the way of leopards,” Akeley wrote. “However, happily for me, she missed her aim.” The wounded cat had landed to one side; instead of Akeley’s throat in her mouth, she had his upper right arm, which had the fortuitous effect of keeping her hind legs off his stomach.
It was good luck, but the fight of Akeley’s life had just begun.
Using his left hand, he attempted to loosen the leopard’s hold. “I couldn't do it except little by little,” he wrote. “When I got grip enough on her throat to loosen her hold just a little she would catch my arm again an inch or two lower down. In this way I drew the full length of the arm through her mouth inch by inch.”
He felt no pain, he wrote, “only of the sound of the crushing of tense muscles and the choking, snarling grunts of the beast.” When his arm was nearly free, Akeley fell on the leopard. His right hand was still in her mouth, but his left hand was still on her throat. His knees were on her chest and his elbows in her armpits, “spreading her front legs apart so that the frantic clawing did nothing more than tear my shirt.”
It was a scramble. The leopard tried to twist around and gain the advantage, but couldn’t get purchase on the sand. “For the first time,” Akeley wrote, “I began to think and hope I had a chance to win this curious fight.”
He called for the boy, hoping he’d bring a knife, but received no response. So he held on to the animal and “continued to shove the hand down her throat so hard she could not close her mouth and with the other I gripped her throat in a stranglehold.” He bore down with his full weight on her chest, and felt a rib crack. He did it again—another crack. “I felt her relax, a sort of letting go, although she was still struggling. At the same time I felt myself weakening similarly, and then it became a question as to which would give up first.”
Slowly, her struggle ceased. Akeley had won. He lay there for a long time, keeping the leopard in his death grip. “After what seemed an interminable passage of time I let go and tried to stand, calling to the pony boy that it was finished.” The leopard, he later told Popular Science Monthly, had then shown signs of life; Akeley used the boy’s knife to make sure it was really, truly dead."
Holy sh!t.
theJeff wrote:
Cats and death wrote:
Since we don't know the details there is this account of how a man killed a leopard:
The 80-pound cat landed on him. “Her intention was to sink her teeth into my throat and with this grip and her forepaws hang to me while with her hind claws she dug out my stomach, for this pleasant practice is the way of leopards,” Akeley wrote. “However, happily for me, she missed her aim.” The wounded cat had landed to one side; instead of Akeley’s throat in her mouth, she had his upper right arm, which had the fortuitous effect of keeping her hind legs off his stomach.
It was good luck, but the fight of Akeley’s life had just begun.
Using his left hand, he attempted to loosen the leopard’s hold. “I couldn't do it except little by little,” he wrote. “When I got grip enough on her throat to loosen her hold just a little she would catch my arm again an inch or two lower down. In this way I drew the full length of the arm through her mouth inch by inch.”
He felt no pain, he wrote, “only of the sound of the crushing of tense muscles and the choking, snarling grunts of the beast.” When his arm was nearly free, Akeley fell on the leopard. His right hand was still in her mouth, but his left hand was still on her throat. His knees were on her chest and his elbows in her armpits, “spreading her front legs apart so that the frantic clawing did nothing more than tear my shirt.”
It was a scramble. The leopard tried to twist around and gain the advantage, but couldn’t get purchase on the sand. “For the first time,” Akeley wrote, “I began to think and hope I had a chance to win this curious fight.”
He called for the boy, hoping he’d bring a knife, but received no response. So he held on to the animal and “continued to shove the hand down her throat so hard she could not close her mouth and with the other I gripped her throat in a stranglehold.” He bore down with his full weight on her chest, and felt a rib crack. He did it again—another crack. “I felt her relax, a sort of letting go, although she was still struggling. At the same time I felt myself weakening similarly, and then it became a question as to which would give up first.”
Slowly, her struggle ceased. Akeley had won. He lay there for a long time, keeping the leopard in his death grip. “After what seemed an interminable passage of time I let go and tried to stand, calling to the pony boy that it was finished.” The leopard, he later told Popular Science Monthly, had then shown signs of life; Akeley used the boy’s knife to make sure it was really, truly dead."
Holy sh!t.
Holy sh!t? That's how you win, by doing to the mountain lion what it is trying to do to you. Squeeze the neck and never let go. I guess "the Jeff?" would just lay there and give up, eh?
I forgive you.
WHTaft wrote:
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/04/mountain-lion-attack-larimer-county/This dude is legit.
All joking aside, this is incredible. I don't care if that cat was juvenile or not, they're an apex predator vs a human. Just amazing that he had the composure to fight it off, and knew how to kill it while in the heat of the moment.
WHTaft wrote:
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/04/mountain-lion-attack-larimer-county/This dude is legit.
Awesome story. The dude saved his own life, made nature less dangerous to others and also more moral by his actions. Total hero and a runner to boot.
appreciate dudes like this wrote:
and also more moral by his actions.
Uh, what?