This is not about trains

[Mookie]

so don't read it if you have to have a train fix.

This is, however for Bob in Tucson, Mudchix, and anyone else that knows Nebraska or the Omaha area specifically!

Big Kitty captured around McDonalds and Dairy Queen! Mookie's cousin was tranquilized and taken to the zoo after being found at 114th and West Dodge.

80 pound puma/mountain lion/big toothed kitty was found by road crew. (It was a young male - out seeing the world!)

Have been sightings before in Nebraska, but usually little farther west.

Ok - it is about trains - Mook figures he got tired of waiting for westbound Amtrak and started hitchhiking.....[xx(]

Will probably stay in zoo, since he probably got a taste of McD's and DQ and they will need to rehabilitate him!

Signing off from the populated wild west!

Mookie

[wabash1]

that is ashame ..... a waste of a good kitty ... it will need to go thru hours of treatment for the food poisoning from mcdonalds and the amount of money needed for the sweet tooth from DQ. will probly spend hours in solitare as not to disturb the other animals while in rehab.

[JoeKoh]

i heard about that on paul harvey this morning.said parents dont leave your children unattended.they should have told that to some----- in Jacksonville Florida.Makes me sick.
stay safe
Joe

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

i heard about that on paul harvey this morning.said parents dont leave your children unattended.they should have told that to some----- in Jacksonville Florida.Makes me sick.
stay safe
Joe

They have alligators down there, too. But children are treated like furniture by some parents, so we lose.

[JoeKoh]

no its worse than that.a woman went to Jail for 2 1/2 weeks leaving her 2 year old in an apartment by herself she thank god survived on ketchup packets and dried macoroni.the neighboors didn't say crap,the cops didn't check.the dad finally got the ok to go into the apartment and found her there.she was malnurished but is recovering.I hope the mom rots in Jail
joe

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

no its worse than that.a woman went to Jail for 2 1/2 weeks leaving her 2 year old in an apartment by herself she thank god survived on ketchup packets and dried macoroni.the neighboors didn't say crap,the cops didn't check.the dad finally got the ok to go into the apartment and found her there.she was malnurished but is recovering.I hope the mom rots in Jail
joe

and the one in PENN who put the child's remains in a picnic cooler in the back yard.

[Willy2]

I heard all about the mountain lion! Very very interesting if I don't say so myself. Too bad I wasn't there to see it. By the way, speaking of the Omaha zoo, if anyone ever visits Omaha I would reccomend it.

Willy

[edblysard]

Actually, the puma/cougar needs an attorney.
after all, the extremly hot coffee he had with his McBiscut must have caused brain damage, so some one should sue McDees for the cat.
Cant have them serving hot coffee to cougars, now, can we?
Of course, the railroad should have hired someone to walk along the entire length of its tracks watching for pumas, sorta like the old crossing guards.
So we should get someone to sue the railroad for infringing on the pumas civil rights to walk where it wanted to.
Although someone stole all the crossing gates and bells, so the puma couldnt have know he was tresspassing.
Sounds like entrapment.

Dont miss the M at all, do you?[:D]
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[Anonymous]

Yrah joe, even i heard that story up here.. pretty sad.

[Modelcar]

....The worse one was the 2 year old surviving for the 21/2 weeks....Truly amazing she survived. What a story. One would think the police would be more positive in securing total info on the womens family and make a check at the appartment if all was not clear...I know hindsite is easy but it sure does make one wonder more checking wasn't done.

[Granny74]

Mookie: Poor Big Kitty. The only thing I have to worry about here in AZ is stepping outside on a rattlesnake thinking it is a railroad track or the coyotes that come up in the evening to serenade us! Used to have wild pigs, but I guess that they have retreated ! Hope they don't find a McDs because there could be a class action lawsuit by the various critters!
Bob in AZ

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Actually, the puma/cougar needs an attorney.
after all, the extremly hot coffee he had with his McBiscut must have caused brain damage, so some one should sue McDees for the cat.
Cant have them serving hot coffee to cougars, now, can we?
Of course, the railroad should have hired someone to walk along the entire length of its tracks watching for pumas, sorta like the old crossing guards.
So we should get someone to sue the railroad for infringing on the pumas civil rights to walk where it wanted to.
Although someone stole all the crossing gates and bells, so the puma couldnt have know he was tresspassing.
Sounds like entrapment.

Dont miss the M at all, do you?[:D]
Stay Frosty,
Ed

See you can fill in for him! That should liven things up a bit!

Mookie

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

....The worse one was the 2 year old surviving for the 21/2 weeks....Truly amazing she survived. What a story. One would think the police would be more positive in securing total info on the womens family and make a check at the appartment if all was not clear...I know hindsite is easy but it sure does make one wonder more checking wasn't done.

Fortunately, unlike a lot of the big cities, we still have nosy neighbors out here. We do watch over each other and I hope that never changes.

Mookie

[Willy2]

Nance69: I hate to say it but I just heard on Paul Harvey that Mountain Lions were spotted in Arizona yesterday. No Kidding! They have also been seen in California.

Willy

[Anonymous]

We had a medical call in the neighboring fire district where a guy was hunting and got slapped by either a bear or a mountain lion. He was highly intoxicated and got knocked down a 100' drop-off . It took fire and ambulance crews 3 hours to get him out and to a waiting helicopter for the 30min flight to the hospital.

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by drailed1999

We had a medical call in the neighboring fire district where a guy was hunting and got slapped by either a bear or a mountain lion. He was highly intoxicated and got knocked down a 100' drop-off . It took fire and ambulance crews 3 hours to get him out and to a waiting helicopter for the 30min flight to the hospital.

from what they are saying about this "kitty" - best bet would be bear. They say adult humans are usually fairly safe from cougars - but then again, this one should have been about 80 pds and weighed in at over 100. Back to McD's and DQ!

Le Chat

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

no its worse than that.a woman went to Jail for 2 1/2 weeks leaving her 2 year old in an apartment by herself she thank god survived on ketchup packets and dried macoroni.the neighboors didn't say crap,the cops didn't check.the dad finally got the ok to go into the apartment and found her there.she was malnurished but is recovering.I hope the mom rots in Jail
joe

and the one in PENN who put the child's remains in a picnic cooler in the back yard.

The story I am referring to was about July/August this year. A family kept a foster child seperated from "their" family and starved her to death, then put the body in a igloo cooler in the back yard.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Willy2

Nance69: I hate to say it but I just heard on Paul Harvey that Mountain Lions were spotted in Arizona yesterday. No Kidding! They have also been seen in California.

Willy

Big cats scare me. They always seem hungry. We have lynx (just a few) in the city, bears (black, grizzly but NOT polar) and a about a 1000 city moose. I've seen this dumb guy on TV from Alaska who tried to ride a moose. He got hurt when he fell off the poor animal's back onto pavement.

[Willy2]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Alaskaman

QUOTE: Originally posted by Willy2

Nance69: I hate to say it but I just heard on Paul Harvey that Mountain Lions were spotted in Arizona yesterday. No Kidding! They have also been seen in California.

Willy

Big cats scare me. They always seem hungry. We have lynx (just a few) in the city, bears (black, grizzly but NOT polar) and a about a 1000 city moose. I've seen this dumb guy on TV from Alaska who tried to ride a moose. He got hurt when he fell off the poor animal's back onto pavement.

It sounds like you've got it all in Alaska! I would never try to ride a moose! Wonder what would ever make someone do that?[:p][:0]

Willy

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Willy2

QUOTE: Originally posted by Alaskaman

QUOTE: Originally posted by Willy2

Nance69: I hate to say it but I just heard on Paul Harvey that Mountain Lions were spotted in Arizona yesterday. No Kidding! They have also been seen in California.

Willy

Big cats scare me. They always seem hungry. We have lynx (just a few) in the city, bears (black, grizzly but NOT polar) and a about a 1000 city moose. I've seen this dumb guy on TV from Alaska who tried to ride a moose. He got hurt when he fell off the poor animal's back onto pavement.

It sounds like you've got it all in Alaska! I would never try to ride a moose! Wonder what would ever make someone do that?[:p][:0]

Willy

One word: ALCOHOL

[Willy2]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

so don't read it if you have to have a train fix.

This is, however for Bob in Tucson, Mudchix, and anyone else that knows Nebraska or the Omaha area specifically!

Big Kitty captured around McDonalds and Dairy Queen! Mookie's cousin was tranquilized and taken to the zoo after being found at 114th and West Dodge.

80 pound puma/mountain lion/big toothed kitty was found by road crew. (It was a young male - out seeing the world!)

Have been sightings before in Nebraska, but usually little farther west.

Ok - it is about trains - Mook figures he got tired of waiting for westbound Amtrak and started hitchhiking.....[xx(]

Will probably stay in zoo, since he probably got a taste of McD's and DQ and they will need to rehabilitate him!

Signing off from the populated wild west!

Mookie

Just in the past few days there have been more and more mountain lion sightings.

First it was near Memorial Park in Omaha and police spent 5 days searching. Several officers reported seeing the cat. They even used the police helicopter!

Then it was in South Omaha.

Then 2 ladies in midtown Omaha called in to report the mountain 1 minute apart from each other. The 2 ladies live about half a block from each other. There is perfect evidence that there may be a mountain lion around.

The wierd thing is that nobody has seen any tracks that resemble those of a mountain lion![:0][}:)] More news about the mountain lion as it is reported.

[mudchicken]

El Gato Mookster & Willy2:

I can see it now: Marlin Perkins, Jack Hanna and Mutual of Omaha on a cross country Safari in Nebraska's hometown backyard wild country, behind the McDonald's at Ashland, NE on the Platte River. And Willy2, the latest "Kitty" is wearing Nike's! (Puma didn't pay a big enough endorsement fee..)

Let me see now, cougars in Omaha, Elk at Edson, Ks, seagulls in Denver. Could we next send you some of our wayward black bears that wore out their welcome here ? They have already gotten to within 50 miles of the Colorado-Kansas border so far....

Mudchicken
(In hiding after 11/15 - Pheasant Season!)

ps - reluctant to do survey work in eastern Nebraska unless I can shoot back at the enebriated clown shooting at me! (from a p/u truck no less!)...Have the leaves all fallen there yet? Do elk go "moo" in Nebraska too? ...mudCHICKEN

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

El Gato Mookster & Willy2:

I can see it now: Marlin Perkins, Jack Hanna and Mutual of Omaha on a cross country Safari in Nebraska's hometown backyard wild country, behind the McDonald's at Ashland, NE on the Platte River. And Willy2, the latest "Kitty" is wearing Nike's! (Puma didn't pay a big enough endorsement fee..)

Let me see now, cougars in Omaha, Elk at Edson, Ks, seagulls in Denver. Could we next send you some of our wayward black bears that wore out their welcome here ? They have already gotten to within 50 miles of the Colorado-Kansas border so far....

Mudchicken
(In hiding after 11/15 - Pheasant Season!)

ps - reluctant to do survey work in eastern Nebraska unless I can shoot back at the enebriated clown shooting at me! (from a p/u truck no less!)...Have the leaves all fallen there yet? Do elk go "moo" in Nebraska too? ...mudCHICKEN

[}:)] Mookie would just love to have the chicken come to Nebraska in any season...hee hee - here birdy, birdy.....

The last elk to go moo went west - probably into Colorado.

We still have all our leaves - so stay in your henhouse a little longer. And that silly yellow and orange you probably wear looks like the BNSF coming through the woods - I'd shoot at it too - thinking it is a big SD70 - coming off the tracks to get me!

Mookster - in the part of the US where you can go out your front porch and pick up a paper and not fall down into a ravine!

[vsmith]

We get mountain lion sightings here a lot. Most of the outlying housing developments are built right at the edge of the wild. So there is not "transition zone" from suburb to wilderness. Its often right on the otherside of someones backyard fence.

So when a big putty-tat comes down out of the foothills and turns Binky the Chihuahua into an appetizer who gets the blame? not the greedy developers who plopped the housing tract out in the middle of no-where, not the stupid people who bought out in the middle of no-where, its the poor putty-tat whos only doing what comes naturally to himself, and thats the real crime.

Kitty-close-encounter-of-the-good-kind:

On day a couple of years ago I'm out riding on my mountain bike up Telegraph road at Chino Hills State Park. As I'm cruising up the hill I see moving down the road what I thought was a dog. Then I realized it was a bobcat, a good sized one too. He was slinking right down the middle of the road apparently following something off the side of the road. Well I stopped right in the middle of the road. If I moved I might panic the kitty, so I got of the bike and with the bike between me and the kitty, I just kept saying "nice kitty" as long as he knew I wasnt a threat he ignored me and kept walking down the road while looking off to the side. He walked right by me no more than a YARD away and kept right on down the road until I lost sight of him. That was cool.

Kitty-close encounter-of-the-bad-kind:

Two friends are coming down the Sam Merrill trail near Mt. Wilson they are seperated by a good distance. The lead rider comes around a curve and is face to face with a mountain lion coming up the trail, hes yells, "Oh sh##" real loud and slams the brakes skidding wildly, that scares the cat who bolts off the trail and disappears into the brush. Saken but not stirred ,the first rider starts off again. Shortly after he hears what he thinks is his buddy behind him, looks back and see's the mountain lion following him. He does the RIGHT thing which is not panicing and running away, triggering the cats chase-and-kill instinct. He stops, gets off and starts hooping and hollering and kicking and throwing stuff at the cat, who confused now also stops but doesnt move off the trail (must have been real hungry). Rider 1 is now getting nervous because the cat doesnt look intimdated by the ruckus he making when his buddy comes hauling up from behind, sees the lion, panics, hits the breaks and nearly hits the cat, which seeing the bright shiny long travel full'suspension bike and its downhill armor clad rider screaming to a halt almost on his tail, the cat panics and tears off into the brush at full speed. Well the two make their way down to the trailhead (lookling back almost the entire way) report it to the ranger station and head off to impress their buddies with a great story. A couple of weeks later the lion is tranquilized and transported to the backcountry.

P.S. I had a close encounter of my own up near this place earlier. I'm riding at sunset up Brown Mountain Trail, the sun has just gone down but I can still see so I dont turn on my headlight yet. It gets dark enough for me to turn on my light, but before I can I hear "Groooowwwwwllllll" I swear it sounded like it 1 foot away from my ear. I turned my light on, stopped, rotated 360 with the light but didnt see anyhting, so I turned around, and slooowly backed out of there walked slooowly down the trail aways, making sure I didnt hear any brush moving, got a good distance away, remounted and road like hell to get out of there. I didnt pass anyone to warn as it was already dark by now. I learned to be a lot more carefull in the monutains out here and always use my light even when its just twilight. At least the light gives warning to any wild things, I even took to using a small bell so I didnt have any more close encounters of the puma kind.

[mudchicken]

Mookie:

(1) Now wondering if all the predators are heading to Omaha to get even with Mutual of Omaha, Marlin Perkins, Jack Hanna and all those gun toting Nebraskans!

(2) Do kevlar FLAK Jackets come in Safety Orange? With yellow reflective tape? (did get shot at last year twice during deer season while doing what mudchickens do at Paront, MO and Hollenberg, KS ... not fun at all)

(3) Only Mookie would understand how mudchicken could be mistaken for an SD-70 in Heritage II paint. She already knows the dirty bird in field garb looks like a pumpkin on steroids...

(4) Ever discover by accident that you were sharing the same pasture with buffalo?

(5) Now that anything that goes "moo" has headed well west of Lincoln, what do Huskers do now that they can't go cow-tipping anymore?

Glad to see your funnybone was not surgically removed! Like the purple dye? Went through a similar EKG episode 3 years ago only to find out that the nervous system wasn't quite wired correctly.

Iron Feathers

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

Mookie:

(1) Now wondering if all the predators are heading to Omaha to get even with Mutual of Omaha, Marlin Perkins, Jack Hanna and all those gun toting Nebraskans!

(2) Do kevlar FLAK Jackets come in Safety Orange? With yellow reflective tape? (did get shot at last year twice during deer season while doing what mudchickens do at Paront, MO and Hollenberg, KS ... not fun at all)

(3) Only Mookie would understand how mudchicken could be mistaken for an SD-70 in Heritage II paint. She already knows the dirty bird in field garb looks like a pumpkin on steroids...

(4) Ever discover by accident that you were sharing the same pasture with buffalo?

(5) Now that anything that goes "moo" has headed well west of Lincoln, what do Huskers do now that they can't go cow-tipping anymore?

Glad to see your funnybone was not surgically removed! Like the purple dye? Went through a similar EKG episode 3 years ago only to find out that the nervous system wasn't quite wired correctly.

Iron Feathers

Only #4 - shared the pasture with a bull one time. He didn't think the Mookie was funny at all!

Notice you got shot at in KS and MO - but a bit of advice - you should wear red with a big N on it - when in Nebraska - not KS or MO! If you wear red and a big N in Nebraska, they would feed you!!!!!

#5 - they still drink beer and eat! And criticize the coach and some players. Not too much difference!

They by-passed the funny bone - in fact in surgical room - on table - I got to laughing at the nurses so hard nearly fell off table. They had to belt me on! Sure did make their day!

Happy Mookie