A runner fought off and killed a mountain lion via strangulation during an attack

ZiggyPalffyLA · Feb 5, 2019

http://time.com/5521197/colorado-mountain-lion-attack/

How in the fuck? Talk about fight or flight. It will be interesting to hear more details about how exactly he fought it off.

EDIT: More details revealed, he strangled it with his bare hands:

Ploppee · Feb 5, 2019

No details on how he killed the animal, so most likely a gun right?

ZiggyPalffyLA · Feb 5, 2019

Ploppee said:
No details on how he killed the animal, so most likely a gun right?

I'd imagine, or a knife/blunt object and he got lucky.

angelgrievous · Feb 5, 2019

It's pretty amazing what people are capable of when fighting for their lives.

Ploppee said:
No details on how he killed the animal, so most likely a gun right?

I don't think most runners run with a gun. Might have used a rock/stone that was close to them.

Bear · Feb 5, 2019

Ploppee said:
No details on how he killed the animal, so most likely a gun right?

Unless he was running with a machete, I'd say a gun is likely.

ZiggyPalffyLA · Feb 5, 2019

angelgrievous said:
It's pretty amazing what people are capable of when fighting for their lives.

I don't think most runners run with a gun. Might have used a rock/stone that was close to them.

You don't run with a derringer on your garter?

Becks' · Feb 5, 2019

This reminds me of a man from my home country who fought a bear with an axe.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-22694609/farmer-in-bosnia-survives-bear-attack-by-using-axe

Balls of steel.

Detective Loki · Feb 5, 2019

angelgrievous · Feb 5, 2019

ZiggyPalffyLA said:
You don't run with a derringer on your garter?

too much chafing.

NealMcCauley · Feb 5, 2019

Maybe he pulled a Tarzan.

Hesemonni · Feb 5, 2019

Good guy with a gun?

Stouffers · Feb 5, 2019

I hear you're supposed to shove your thumb up its bum.

Jie Li · Feb 5, 2019

He unlocked the infinite SMG.

Ploppee · Feb 5, 2019

angelgrievous said:
It's pretty amazing what people are capable of when fighting for their lives.

I don't think most runners run with a gun. Might have used a rock/stone that was close to them.

I mean look at where he was running though? I would run with a gun out there if possible.

Torpedo Vegas · Feb 5, 2019

He's already got a shark. I guess Mountain Lion was next on his list.

SliceSabre · Feb 5, 2019

Mountain Lion thought it had a easy kill with a human. Thought wrong. Glad the guy survived. Can't say I feel bad for the mountain lion because the alternative is the guy ending up a meal for a mountain lion.

Bunta · Feb 5, 2019

Ploppee said:
No details on how he killed the animal, so most likely a gun right?

Nope, bare hands; dude strangled it.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...on-horsetooth-mountain-park-in-larimer-county

The man said he heard something behind him on the trail and was attacked as he turned to investigate. The lion lunged at the runner, biting his face and wrist. But the man was able to fight and break free from the lion, according to CPW.

On Tuesday morning after an examination of the lion, CPW said the runner suffocated the animal while defending himself.

PanzerKraken · Feb 5, 2019

angelgrievous said:
I don't think most runners run with a gun. Might have used a rock/stone that was close to them.

It's not uncommon for bikers/runners in areas of wilderness with potential dangerous animals to be packing a weapon.

Deleted member 13798 · Feb 5, 2019

Bunta said:
Nope, bare hands; dude strangled it.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...on-horsetooth-mountain-park-in-larimer-county

Holy shit.

Angry Grimace · Feb 5, 2019

ZiggyPalffyLA said:
http://time.com/5521197/colorado-mountain-lion-attack/

How in the fuck? Talk about fight or flight. It will be interesting to hear more details about how exactly he fought it off.

The same way dog attacks don't kill healthy humans: because full grown healthy humans often outweigh mountain lions and dogs by like 100 pounds

Mendrox · Feb 5, 2019

Bare hands kill? WTF

dDASTARDLY · Feb 5, 2019

I could do the same...I just don't because I respect nature too much.

Stick · Feb 5, 2019

Damn that's sad but badass at the same time....

TransEuropaExpress · Feb 5, 2019

Bunta said:
Nope, bare hands; dude strangled it.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...on-horsetooth-mountain-park-in-larimer-county

I knew I got into Jiu Jitsu for a good reason.

ZiggyPalffyLA · Feb 5, 2019

Angry Grimace said:
The same way dog attacks don't kill healthy humans: because full grown healthy humans often outweigh mountain lions and dogs by like 100 pounds

Dogs mostly fight with their teeth though. One good swipe from a mountain lion could kill or disable a grown man easily. They're got more reach.

Bunta said:
Nope, bare hands; dude strangled it.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...on-horsetooth-mountain-park-in-larimer-county

Thanks, added to OP!

SliceSabre · Feb 5, 2019

Bunta said:
Nope, bare hands; dude strangled it.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...on-horsetooth-mountain-park-in-larimer-county

Bare hands strangle? Jesus this mountain lion fucked with the WRONG guy.

FullMetalTech · Feb 5, 2019

Oh shit he straight up bare handed it!

Booki · Feb 5, 2019

He really choked the life out of a mountain lion? Get this man in MK11, Boon.

Dusk Golem · Feb 5, 2019

Updated the thread title to clarify, since that is quite a feat.

Protein · Feb 5, 2019

How does one successfully strangle a mountain lion? Wouldn't it flail and swipe at you with its last dying breath?

Deleted member 12790 · Feb 5, 2019

unfathomably badass

TransEuropaExpress · Feb 5, 2019

If he rear naked choked this beast to death, that'd be the hardest shit ever.

Codleeco Vision · Feb 5, 2019

Holy shit. What are you normally supposed to do in a mountain lion attack?

Because choking out seems crazy to pull off...

TheBaldwin · Feb 5, 2019

Well cant say im happy about random death of an animal, but guess guy fought the food chain

Daniel Westlake · Feb 5, 2019

Bare hands? Goddamn, got a dope Christmas story.

Ploppee · Feb 5, 2019

bare hands holy shit.

Sibersk Esto · Feb 5, 2019

Protein said:
How does one successfully strangle a mountain lion? Wouldn't it flail and swipe at you with its last dying breath?

Rear naked choke maybe

Van Bur3n · Feb 5, 2019

Hardcore. I think you're supposed to stand your ground with them. Not like running will do any good. You just come off as prey doing that.

There was a video I watched of a biker coming face to face with a lion. Kept stalking him and every time it got close he would stand his ground and hold his bike up high to make himself appear larger. Lion ended up walking away.

Jesse_and_the_rippers · Feb 5, 2019

Protein said:
How does one successfully strangle a mountain lion? Wouldn't it flail and swipe at you with its last dying breath?

Sleeper hold? I wonder if his arms got shredded in the process.

Haloid1177 · Feb 5, 2019

TheBaldwin said:
Well cant say im happy about random death of an animal, but guess guy fought the food chain

Who the fucks say this, mountain lion was gonna kill the guy.

Dusk Golem · Feb 5, 2019

TheBaldwin said:
Well cant say im happy about random death of an animal, but guess guy fought the food chain

This is kinda' my stance on it, I don't really get happy at animal deaths. But death is a part of the ecosystem and in nature it's kill or be killed, the Mountain Lion initiated the attack and the man won bare-handed, so I can't really hold too much against the guy since it was a survival of the fittest situation that just naturally occurs really.

mxbison · Feb 5, 2019

I'm not PETA or anything but running in the wild and strangling an animal that lives there is not what I'd call badass.

mxbison · Feb 5, 2019

Haloid1177 said:
Who the fucks say this, mountain lion was gonna kill the guy.

Nothing wrong with defending yourself, everyone would, no need to make a hero story out of it though.

Kaiken · Feb 5, 2019

Need more details because even if you were to get behind this lion with a rear naked choke, it's hind legs would shred the fuck out of your arms.

mjc · Feb 5, 2019

Adrenaline is a hell of a thing. Incredible that he managed to avoid it's jaws though.

ZiggyPalffyLA · Feb 5, 2019

Bunta said:
Nope, bare hands; dude strangled it.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...on-horsetooth-mountain-park-in-larimer-county

Van Bur3n said:
Hardcore. I think you're supposed to stand your ground with them. Not like running will do any good. You just come off as prey doing that.

There was a video I watched of a biker coming face to face with a lion. Kept stalking him and every time it got close he would stand his ground and hold his bike up high to make himself appear larger. Lion ended up walking away.

Lion or mountain lion?

Lost · Feb 5, 2019

dDASTARDLY said:
I could do the same...I just don't because I respect nature too much.

Im pretty sure this is called natural selection

You'd just let the thing kill you?!

Rygar 8Bit · Feb 5, 2019

Guess he got on its back and sleeper hold on it so it couldn't swipe him?

ZiggyPalffyLA · Feb 5, 2019

Lost said:
Im pretty sure this is called natural selection

You'd just let the thing kill you?!

It's an honor to be part of the great circle of life!

Oyashiro-Sama · Feb 5, 2019

Damn... like... holy shit.

A runner fought off and killed a mountain lion via strangulation during an attack

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