US Officials Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct

Jodie said:
We''ll find out.
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Excellent!

Here's something that might help if your friend or you gets the runaround:

A Citizen's Guide to South Carolina's Freedom of Information Act

South Carolina's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) makes records and meetings of public bodies open and available to citizens and their representatives in the press. This openness is important because it allows the public to learn about the performance of public officials and the expenditure of public funds.
As a citizen of South Carolina, you have the right to attend meetings of commissions, councils, boards and other public bodies. You have a right to see and copy records of public bodies. A record cannot be withheld and a meeting cannot be closed unless a specific exemption applies. The FOIA -- also known as the Sunshine Law because it shines light on government meetings and records -- is essential to our democratic form of government.


http://www.scpress.org/Documents/citizen.pdf
 
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It's quite a day when the Good & Plenty meme shows up in an Eastern cougar extinction thread.
 
HarryHenderson said:
And WHOOPSIE!


They are "absolutely capable" of what? Being provoked? Creating a bloody human tragedy? The best value in camp stove repair? :boggled:
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Heh. Way too funny. I was wondering if he was going to claim he never said such a thing, since skilled gamers deploy insinuation instead of directly stating what they are obviously insinuating.

That way you can deny doing what you did. Since you only insinuated it instead of actually saying it.

But back then he was challenged to state specifically what they were capable of, which received no response under the maxim of selective attention.

Our less skilled gamer is being schooled in why selective attention is the better play. The more you tread down the road of "my life was in danger" the more contradictory your nonchalant behavior is.

This is such a great living laboratory.
 
Do Cougar's commonly attack people over there? Seems unlikely.
Even the non-extinct varieties would be more likely to run from a group of humans I would have thought.
 
Thank God she acted like nothing happened instead of taking on a deadly cougar with no deaths ever recorded in her state since keeping track in 1890.

Almost once every six years someone is killed someplace else. It is testimony to how careless people are as compared with the study state.

Probably due to the cougar awareness programs in the public schools.

More than 30,000 people are killed from falling annually in the US. The fact she was up high on a porch in addition to taking on a deadly cougar stands testament to the kind of nerve a BLAARGer needs.
 
Thinking back, I once knew a cougar that actually drive a Mercury Cougar. This was before the term had such meaning. Really pleasant memories. Thanks all.
 
Jodie said:
There was no mistaking what this was. I'll reiterate this again. I was on a screened in porch of one of those type of cabins/weekend homes that are near the coast [blah blah blah]
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Your credibility is not a boomerang. Once you've thrown it away, it's not coming back.
 
Jodie said:
That might be the case but there were three other people on the screened in porch that saw the same thing. These kinds of sightings are common down here. We were more worried about going out to our vehicles at night to leave than amazed that a cougar was in the vicinity.

My critical thinking skills are excellent. You , or anyone else here, should question your own critical thinking skills when you can no longer entertain any thoughts or ideas that fall outside of the box.
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It's a matter of your credibility.
 
Jodie said:
Like I've said before, I'm tech NO. I don't have the ability to trace a photo posted on the internet back to the source. There are plenty but I have no way to verify what I'm looking at.
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Stop talking. I'm embarrassed for you.
 
AlaskaBushPilot said:
Thank God she acted like nothing happened instead of taking on a deadly cougar with no deaths ever recorded in her state since keeping track in 1890.

Almost once every six years someone is killed someplace else. It is testimony to how careless people are as compared with the study state.

Probably due to the cougar awareness programs in the public schools.

More than 30,000 people are killed from falling annually in the US. The fact she was up high on a porch in addition to taking on a deadly cougar stands testament to the kind of nerve a BLAARGer needs.
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:D
 
Resume said:
Not common, but it happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_cougar_attacks_in_North_America
http://www.topangaonline.com/nature/lionatk.html
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I can think of 8 cougar attacks - one of which was fatal - that were not listed that took place since 1980. All of these I have personal knowledge of due to my being involved in either the investigation of the attack (police respond far faster than Conservation officers in BC) - or the pursuit of the cougar after the attack.
I am sure there are dozens more that did not get tallied in those articles.
 
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rockinkt said:
I can think of 8 cougar attacks - one of which was fatal - that were not listed that took place since 1980. All of these I have personal knowledge of due to my being involved in either the investigation of the attack (police respond far faster than Conservation officers in BC) - or the pursuit of the cougar after the attack.
I am sure there are dozens more that did not get tallied in those articles.
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Were any of them in SC?
 
It goes in the "win" column.

So it has an effect, but in the wrong direction. Golly, in the early message board years people used to post "do not feed the troll" signs, but it is viewed as a personal attack, so trolls have cover nowadays.

Professional peer reviewed articles point out what a problem it is - yet the rules would have it as nonexistent.

In person, people can shun by themselves. We don't have moderators protecting deceitful people. "Hi. I am the Ambassador to Spain." You hear these kinds of fantastical things in person ,and you start heading in the other direction. Maybe for an afternoon of bizarre entertainment, okay. But to have watch your children while you are shooting pool at the strip club, no way.
 
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