There have been four reports of possible mountain lion sightings in densely populated central New Jersey over the past week. People are alarmed. Helicopters have been on the hunt. A motion-sensitive camera has been trained on a deer carcass set up in the woods as bait. Police are skeptical. Mountain lions have been extinct in the Northeast nearly a century. "We're not out chasing a mountain lion nor do we believe there is a mountain lion," said Manalapan police captain Chris Marsala. But I don't think this is about a curly-haired student filming himself masturbating in classrooms at Brookdale Community College.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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That's no mountain lion, that's just Simon MacCorkindale, aka Dr Jonathan Chase... wealthy, young, handsome. A man with the brightest of futures. A man with the darkest of pasts. From Africa's deepest recesses, to the rarefied peaks of Freehold Township, heir to his father's legacy and the world's darkest mysteries. Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man... Manimal!
Don't worry. He will be gone in less than three months, or four more episodes.
A cougar in NJ? No way.
In all seriousness, you cannot rule out an escaped/released pet.
Anyone who could mistake a 20-lb savannah cat for a mountain lion is someone who's never seen a mountain lion. Which...I guess is all of New Jersey.
Is this in addition to the panthers? Weird.
http://tinyurl.com/n7bhrn
It's up to employers to crack down on undocumented felines.
The bears should take care of it soon.