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Woman claims catamount chased her in Springfield
Posted: Sep 29, 2016 4:32 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 29, 2016 7:16 PM EDT
By Alex Hirsch
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SPRINGFIELD, Vt. -
A woman claims she saw a catamount in the parking lot of Family Dollar.
Saturday, Springfield Police got a call about a large cat chasing a woman in the parking lot of the Family Dollar store. When police arrived, they showed the woman pictures of different kinds of cats and she immediately picked out the extinct catamount.
Police investigated but could not find any evidence to support the sighting.
"I looked for a half-hour, 45 minutes, came back throughout the evening just hoping to catch eyeballs or something prowling. There were two dogs in the area just laying lazily on the porch where she said it ran by. Didn't seem too indicative that they were too excited of a large cat," Springfield Police Det. Anthony Moriglioni said.
Whatever it was, it was last seen heading up Pearl Street.
The last catamount killed in Vermont was in 1881. Federal officials and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department believe the Catamount became extinct in the 1930s.
A hound dog would tell you if a cat like that was there. With photo shop I could put a T rex there.
ReplyDeleteDrug induced hallucination?
ReplyDeleteThe woman saw the animal in the shopping plaza near the Dollar Store. It was last seen heading along Pearl Street. So, she must have watched it cross the foot bridge (or swim) and then herself crossed the bridge to see that the animal went down Pearl. The story doesn't say all that, but that's the only way it would work. However, once across the bridge the animal could have turned up Morgan past the Turning Point, or headed up hill to the wooded area at several places.
ReplyDeleteYa right, notice how close the camera is to the big cat,telephoto lens? Notice the feet are not showing, fake.
DeleteWhat are you talking about? That's got to be real - they couldn't put it in the news otherwise!
DeleteThey are around.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure this is not a picture that was taken at that time.
ReplyDeleteI saw a bigfoot once. Lucky for me the space aliens came along and zapped it with their ray gun.
ReplyDeleteApparently heading towards Claremont for better shopping.
ReplyDeleteI understand the cat was reluctant to hunt and fend for itself any more. Had stopped off at the U-Turning Point for a support group meeting of deer eaters anonymous. Then, down to the State offices to apply for an EBT card and free housing. Guess the folks there didn't get the memo about feeding animals makes them dependent upon handouts.
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