Altoona PA Roadkill
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Apparently its an Arizona roadkill, or a West Virgina... not that it matters much. A truck hit it according to this,
Posted by MARCUS SCHNECK, The Patriot-News July 21, 2008 14:31PM
A mountain lion has not been hit and killed by a truck on Mill Creek Road near Lake Raystown in central Pennsylvania. It's just the Internet hoaxers up to their same old tricks. The cougar shown in photos being forwarded and forwarded and forwarded through the e-mail universe are the same photos of an Arizona cat that resurface from time to time in the latest rumor mongering.
Also, as usual, the Pennsylvania Game Commission takes it on the chin by those who want to imagine Pennsylvania mountain lions into existence. "One doesn't think about big cats being in this eastern part of the country," the critics are noting in the e-mail. "Game commissions have denied it for a long time."
Not to insist that there are no mountain lions roaming free in Pennsylvania, maybe even hooking up with one another to produce wild litters, but there is no evidence that any of those cats are native to the state or found their own way here. Actually evidence points to the cats being escaped or intentionally released pets or otherwise formerly captive animals.
This time around the Game Commission would be entirely in the right to deny that the cat in the current stream of e-mails ever set foot in Pennsylvania.
The mountain lion in those photos was struck by a truck in Arizona, along Highway 64 about halfway between Williams and Valle, a few years ago. It was put down by an officer from the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
The last time the photos made the e-mail rounds, the hoaxers claimed it had been killed in West Virginia.
Posted by MARCUS SCHNECK, The Patriot-News July 21, 2008 14:31PM
A mountain lion has not been hit and killed by a truck on Mill Creek Road near Lake Raystown in central Pennsylvania. It's just the Internet hoaxers up to their same old tricks. The cougar shown in photos being forwarded and forwarded and forwarded through the e-mail universe are the same photos of an Arizona cat that resurface from time to time in the latest rumor mongering.
Also, as usual, the Pennsylvania Game Commission takes it on the chin by those who want to imagine Pennsylvania mountain lions into existence. "One doesn't think about big cats being in this eastern part of the country," the critics are noting in the e-mail. "Game commissions have denied it for a long time."
Not to insist that there are no mountain lions roaming free in Pennsylvania, maybe even hooking up with one another to produce wild litters, but there is no evidence that any of those cats are native to the state or found their own way here. Actually evidence points to the cats being escaped or intentionally released pets or otherwise formerly captive animals.
This time around the Game Commission would be entirely in the right to deny that the cat in the current stream of e-mails ever set foot in Pennsylvania.
The mountain lion in those photos was struck by a truck in Arizona, along Highway 64 about halfway between Williams and Valle, a few years ago. It was put down by an officer from the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
The last time the photos made the e-mail rounds, the hoaxers claimed it had been killed in West Virginia.
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