Originally Posted by Rollerball

Even in age old Chicago, even in 100 yr old residential areas, it has a school near by.

My point isn't that the claim of a "near-by elementary school" is not supported, I have no doubt there was a school nearby. It would also have been true to say it was near a church. Or near a bar, that would also no doubt be true. The cougar wasn't issue enough? Why do they need to push the fear?

"JUST IMAGINE FOLKS! THIS VICIOUS CAT WAS TWO STEPS AWAY FROM CLAWING IT'S WAY THROUGH A KINDERGARDEN CLASS, MAYBE YOUR CHILD'S KINDERGARDEN CLASS!!!"

Hold the extra fear please.
This would be an issue for me even if they didn't kill the cat. Why can't they please stop pushing the fear? You should have heard the morons on local news the day after that coyote was captured last year, listing all the things a Chicagoan should do to protect themselves if they should come face to face with a coyote... as if this happened more than once in the last 100 years and people were being taken off the streets all the time by wild creatures.

I just can't stand how stupid they get with pushing the fear. After all the Bush years of getting fear rammed down our throats, using it as a tool to get everything he wants, I have no tolerance left for any kind of trumped up fear mongering.

Originally Posted by Noob920

Okay, I'm fairly sure it was necessary. Why else would a police officer fire his weapon and have to complete all that paperwork?

I've heard stories about wild animals wandering into the Bronx as well. Animals show up in the strangest places.

Originally Posted by poetrychic

chicago cops worry about paperwork after they discharge their weapons? hell, or even think before they discharge their weapons?

that is absurd in its irony...you should come for a visit and stay awhile to get the full effect of our police force....

Originally Posted by ciaobox2007

Also...it is worthy to note that the cougar was spotted early in the morning, by a teacher at the school. The principal of the school called it in, law enforcement came, but school stayed in session.

Those kids they were protecting were sent home after school and the cougar was killed by a firing squad at 5:30.

Originally Posted by ocealdia

I agree with you completely Heretic. This cougar was wondering and just got lost in a neighborhood, and he was probably confused and more afraid than the people out to get him. He should have been darted.

Originally Posted by Noob920

Cats are predators and natural hunters. Did you ever play with a cat using a ball and string or a laser pointer? Hungry or not, they will attack it. If a person saw the cougar and ran, the cat would have chased it down. It's too big and dangerous an animal to take chances with.

Originally Posted by serum114

Don't know about that I have friends that are avid hunters and have brought back pictures of bears that have run up trees when spotted. Surly a cougar would see a human long before the human would see the cougar and nobody was attacked seems a little strange.

Originally Posted by ciaobox2007

They're saying the cougar came all the way from the black hills of South Dakota, DNA tests are being performed to confirm.

Originally Posted by PursuitOfHappinessParty

If there's a police issue happening anywhere near the schools here, it's lockdown until he's found or admited lost.

I have to wonder about them allowing the kids to leave. This ordeal took all day?