Tasering of cougar ends with a surprise (DETROIT FREE PRESS) - Warren Police scrambled about 10 officers after a 911 caller reported seeing a black panther in a wooded area near the southern side of Bates Park. "It's huge," the caller insisted. Arriving officers decided that the piercing black eyes on the cougar -- sitting inside a discarded section of cement drain pipe -- were so menacing that they quickly cordoned off the area. It was shortly after 8 p.m. Monday, and daylight was fading fast. Fearing the large cat would lunge at officers or escape and run loose, police quickly moved into position and shot the cougar with a Taser stun gun. They got him -- right in the stuffing. Turns out the cougar was a large stuffed toy, apparently placed in the pipe as a hoax. "There was a fear that ... it could ... endanger the community," Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer told the Free Press on Thursday. "We're out there to keep the community safe, by whatever means necessary."... damn, we're stupid in Michigan. How on earth do you mistake a silent non-moving stuffed toy for a real panther?
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Well, at least it wasnt a real life lion. Lions can take gunshots at point blank range without them slowing them down, initially.
Tigers too, so I suspect panthers aren't much different. Tasering it would have just given it a reason to become aggressive.
