Peep Show: Cougar Ate Grandma

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a group of senior rafters that were attacked by a mountain lion and used their paddles to defend themselves.

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00:00it sucks to be old a group of senior rafters oh my god in arizona had to use a their paddles

00:19in a fight for their lives against a mountain lion oh my god

00:24yeah it's uh easy easy prey officials are urging caution after last last week's attack

00:34in a remote area of the white mountain apache reservation here kitty kitty

00:41don't call it over to you are you crazy a tiny cat that's not a tiny that is a mountain lion it's

00:48little here kitty no go white water rafting they said i want to pet it come here we are the most

01:02extreme senior citizens of them all we can handle a cougar i don't know i don't know it doesn't seem

01:10friendly kitty it's got a mean look about it i guess it is a little bit bigger than you thought

01:17it doesn't have a is it purring that are you hearing that's not a nope you're purring

01:25the attack occurred 21 miles downstream from the salt salt river bridge on the white mountain

01:55apache nation which is the north side of the salt river in a really remote area they say

02:00hey yeah got it got sally sally's gone sally a 64 year old new mexico resident was injured in the

02:09attack she's still very sore well her name's not sally no she's 64 she is expected to survive

02:16yep it's it's mad as the lion was attacking the 64 year old woman 10 other senior rafters

02:25attempted to fight it off using their rafter paddles get out of here sweat eventually the 10 seniors

02:36did manage to keep the lion at bay while other seniors headed to safety on their rafts how how does

02:43this one senior look now no pictures no probably not great like shredded beef yeah they go right for

02:53your neck they get you right in that neck they'll kill you thank god there was 10 other seniors there

02:59with paddles though yeah right if it was just a long time over on by herself she'd be done oh yeah yeah oh yeah

03:06good for them for being active though absolutely you know we're going to bingo next let's do that

03:14crazy cougars at bingo not as much risk at bingo that's why they do something like that what do you

03:21think sally oh no she's bleeding out it really had her by the neck yeah it did

03:31flung her around they sent out a group of hunters with hound dogs to follow lion tracks from the

03:39location of the attack to another area where they're currently trying to locate the lion

03:43as of yesterday they hadn't found it yet i got an idea we'll put sally out on a rock all right

03:50and then it'll come back to kill her and then we try to hit it again with paddles it's a good idea

03:58oh god it got sally we we were too slow that was a terrible idea

04:03it's much faster than us it's so quick it's very fast they say it's crucial for people to take

04:12additional precautions such as avoiding wildlife and other unknown animals that have been previously

04:19exposed hang in there you'll be all right hey tom yeah tom can you grab sally's arms

04:30i'll get him get her arms i gotta put some pressure on it completely off of her yep

04:37it's running around with her foot now it's just taunting us it's got her foot

04:48hang in there sally you're fine

04:52sally you're fine it's just like a scratch scratch i feel like you would just be trying to tell her

05:02she's gonna be okay right i'm sure yeah she's just like are you sure is her arms over there and her

05:09foot's over there nothing i haven't seen in the jungles of vietnam

05:13how old was the woman 64 okay so that to me that's right in that that like right before the cutoff

05:23like i do think like at 64 you can still try to do some wild stuff yeah okay right there but you're

05:34right there 64 year old i've seen a young like vibrant 64 year old and i've seen an old 64 year old

05:41i i agree obviously they're in pretty good shape yeah well you just can't fight against a mountain

05:47lion yeah no no but i mean even to just to raft like yeah i know but they have to be in pretty

05:52good shape yeah you know because could you raft right now chuck i mean i could sit in the middle

05:57i could weigh the boat down sit next to me i'll keep you can't do any paddling

06:02i'm here to just keep the boat in the water if you know what i mean right i get you

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