A Reason to NOT Move to Chicago
April 15th, 2008 . by mattCops had to kill a cougar moseying around Wilmette. Honestly, I ain’t afraid of no cougar (though I probably should be). I’m a little more afraid of those cops:
“At first, I’m thinking there’s a gun battle in the street,” said Greene, who owns a trucking company.
As the shots stopped, Greene heard the police yelling, “We got him! We
got him!” He ventured downstairs and moved on his knees to the front
door, where he saw police on his lawn. The officers had shot holes in
an air conditioning unit on the side of Greene’s house while aiming for
the tan cougar, which died in the alley near Greene’s garage.
Yikes! I mean, I’ve never fought a cougar before, but that seems a little extreme, doesn’t it?
“It was turning on the officers,” Ryan said, adding that no officers were hurt. “There was no way to take it into custody.”
No way at all? I believe that the poor freaked out thing was ready for some succulent Pig Meat, but seems to me that if we can taser the hell out of an obnoxious college kid, we could probably take down a wild cougar without resorting to a hail of gunfire that costs a man an air conditioning unit…I don’t know.
that is so sad! get the police involved, and their solution will always be “shoot it”. this same thing happened recently when two tigers escaped from a zoo. only those were fucking TIGERS. poor babies.
I have to admit, it was amusing to hear about the “Big Cat Sightings” around town on the news. But I do wish they didn’t have to kill the poor thing. But when you’re a cop in Wilmette, and the most you get to do is break up house parties, you unfortunately probably would overreact.
Hey – don’t forget the UGA student who got tackled by ATF because he was wearing a ninja costume!
You should get landmines to put around your place…..to protect you from the police, not the cougars.
Actually, he was killed in Chicago (in Roscoe Village.) Wilmette is a suburb north of Chicago.
What could they do? Cluck, “Here kitty, kitty, kitty?” with little cans of cat food in their palms? They didn’t have the proper equipment. There was a 150-pound, six-foot-fence-leaping cougar loose in the neighborhood. Which is home to an elementary school. And a really awesome wine store. Think of all the bottles and children that could’ve been destroyed.
If anyone had been killed, then everyone would be bitching about how the cops didn’t shoot the cougar when they had the chance. Lose/lose.
It’s sucky thing that happened, to be sure. Poor random cougar. It’s a shame the police didn’t have any tranquilizer guns.
Wait, there are cougars in Chicago? Like, from the wild? I had no idea they lived in that part of the country.
Once when I was in Chicago, I saw a skunk. It was eating things in someone’s front lawn.
a cop killed a bat in our apartment once. he stepped on it. after we had already done the “cover it with a towel so it will unhinge itself from the door” thing, and right before i was about to pick up the bat (and the towel) and take it outside, to live free.
*STOMP*
shortly before i tossed the towel over the bat, he said to me “it sure would be easier if i could just shoot it.”
Ugh, Nick. That’s horrible. There’s absolutely no reason for that.
Why was the cop there, anyway?
(because brooke and i were scardy cats, and didn’t know how to handle bats-in-the-house. and because when animal control is not open, they send regular old police)