Possible Lion Spotted Roaming the Streets of Milwaukee

[Botany]

Source: ABC news

A large feline, possibly a lion, was recently seen roaming the streets of Milwaukee.

Bill Nolen and his wife, Annie, said they saw the animal outside their home.

“I was afraid to move,” Annie Nolen told ABC affiliate WISN-TV. “I was sitting there, and I couldn’t move. I thought, ‘What am I looking at?’”

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Authorities with the Department of Natural Resources believe it may be a lioness.
While there have been no other confirmed sightings of the animal, police are not taking the threat lightly.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/lion-spotted-roaming-streets-milwaukee/story?id=32610711

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#donotbecomealion'slunch

[JustAnotherGen]

1. There's something you don't see every day!

[PoliticAverse]

2. Are they really sure it was a lion?...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthpicturegalleries/9811989/Animal-pictures-of-the-week-18-January-2013.html?frame=2453163

[ieoeja]

12. Could be a mountain lion.

Chicago cop killed a mountain lion in an alley near my house a few years ago. Said he had no choice as it pulled a gun on him.



The lion had been spotted off and on for months moving its way south through the northern suburbs. But nobody believed any of the spotters until the lion was actually killed.

[H2O Man]

20. I wondered about that,

too. But it appears broader than the mountain lions that I've seen. Not to say it couldn't be; there could be variations in size in different regions.

[corkhead]

3. sounds like an episode of the Twilight Zone

[BeyondGeography]

4. Thanks Walker!

[Gman]

5. Walker cut funding to zoos too?

[djean111]

6. (At the link) - That does look like a lioness. Hopefully this can be resolved without

killing her and no one getting hurt.

[Triana]

7. I'm sure the lioness (if that's what it is) will be shot dead by humans soon.

Not to worry.

[navarth]

8. The poor thing, frightened and lost

I can only hope they will use a tranquilizer dart and get her to safety.

[Botany]

11. could be a mt. lion

I hope the lion is captured safely too but the cops might have shoot on sight
orders.

Funny we get an overwhelming police response to one lion that really is not
that much of a threat but 30 people a day day because of guns in America

[navarth]

15. true dat. nt

[cosmicone]

9. Looking for Scott Walker?

[Roland99]

10. ABC's "Zoo" come to life?

[allan01]

13. eep

[Cryptoad]

14. And they wonder why

all those kids keep disappearing,,,,,,, ?

[C Moon]

16. I'd guess a mountain lion. We have them in So. CA

Here they usually tranquilize them, tag them, and carry them back to the mountains.
I hope they do the same there.

[edbermac]

17. "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"

[Sunlei]

18. hard to tell, the short steps and the tail, it almost looks like an obese old yellow lab mix

odd for even a mountain lion to be out during the day, but some people do have large cats hidden in their homes.

[dembotoz]

19. Well the GOP is lie an all the time

[H2O Man]

21. Many years ago,

a woman in rural upstate New York bought a lion. As it reached maturity, it escaped, and was on the loose for about a week. The public was understandably concerned. The owner and her clan were rather anti-social folks, with a pack of attack dogs, weapons, etc.

Eventually, the lion was caught and returned to the owner. At the time, there were no laws that prevented her from having it. Neighbors were afraid, and several called child protective services, believing the the children in their compound were at risk. None of the county folks wanted to venture there, so they contracted with an individual from another agency to do "visits."

Can you guess the identity of the fool who went?

[Myrina]

22. Let's hope some open carry knucklebilly doesn't decide to look for it.

SMDH.

[ThingsGottaChange]

23. "THREAT"

Any animal just trying to survive, in what used to be their habitat, is now a threat that most assuredly will be killed. Mountain lion probably. Hungry. Desperate. I hate people....

[postulater]

24. Hmmm. That doesn't look like Milwaukee.

The hills are wrong. And we have bigger trees.

But maybe that's what ran across the road in front of me in River Hills this morning. [Naw, just a coyote.]

[Angry Dragon]

25. That is what it will look like after Walker gets done with it

[Botany]

40. The lioness picture is fron N W Waukesha, County

[jberryhill]

26. A "possible" lion?

Is this Schroedinger's lion?

Is someone missing a lion somewhere?

[yellowcanine]

36. Schrödinger....

And that was a cat, not a lion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

But I suppose the same thought experiment would work for a lion.

[jberryhill]

37. A lion is a cat

Schroedinger's cat may be a lion, a housecat, a panther or any other kind of cat, since "cat" is the generic class of "cats" and not any particular kind of cat.

In fact, Schroedinger's cat may be either a lion or a housecat, but your act of observing it will cause it to collapse into one or the other.

[yellowcanine]

48. Your act of observing it could kill the cat also.

Heisenberg and Schrödinger get pulled over for speeding.
The cop asks Heisenberg "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg replies, "No, but we know exactly where we are!"
The officer looks at him confused and says "you were going 108 miles per hour!"
Heisenberg throws his arms up and cries, "Great! Now we're lost!"
The officer looks over the car and asks Schrödinger if the two men have anything in the trunk.
"A cat," Schrödinger replies.
The cop opens the trunk and yells "Hey! This cat is dead."
Schrödinger angrily replies, "Well he is now."

[Blue_Tires]

27. out of season?

[Jimbo S]

49. Packers no longer play in Milwaukee

Nice try, though.

[jberryhill]

28. According to the city bus system...

And Anthem Blue Cross has released this security camera video:

[Warpy]

29. We had a Bengal tiger in my old neighborhood here

who was found by Taco Bell workers opening up for the day, sleeping in front of one of the doors. They said he seemed very tame but hungry.

Turned out he was being transported to some show in Las Vegas, the drivers stopping here and leaving him in the van. A couple of local lads were cleaning out vehicles in the motel lot and broke in, letting the kitty out.

Animal control took the tiger in for feeding and a checkup and charges went every which way except to the thieves, who were never caught.

I'm always amazed by the cool heads at that Taco Bell, just opening a different door and calling Animal Control instead of freaking out. Sometimes I love this town.

[jberryhill]

30. Pictures are pouring into Twitter #mkelion

[d_r]

31. you know

that really does look like a lion. Maybe it is just a dog though.

[jberryhill]

32. Where, specifically, did the video come from?

Who shot it.

The linked story is not clear.

[d_r]

33. I meant

all those pictures from twitter

[jberryhill]

38. lol

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mkelion&src=typd&vertical=default&f=tweets

[d_r]

39. I still think

there is a chance it might be a dog-

[yellowcanine]

34. Must have escaped from the GOP Presidential Candidate Circus

[Coventina]

35. Lions and other large felines everywhere are very insulted!

[LiberalElite]

45. Next they should keep an eye out for the elephant eom

[brooklynite]

41. Nobody seems to have published the actual picture of the alleged lion...

There's a video clip here: http://wgntv.com/2015/07/22/video-captures-possible-lion-sighting-in-milwaukee/

[Yo_Mama]

43. Ah, thanks, that does make things a bit clearer. n/t

[Yo_Mama]

42. Head doesn't look right?

Well, they saw it and I didn't, so.

Looks like some sort of dog to me.

[awoke_in_2003]

44. Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store! nt

[Archae]

46. WISN in Milwaukee, (ABC affiliate,) updated the story today...

A feral cat was found torn apart.

But so far, no one has any really clear idea where the (lion? mountain lion?) is from, or where it is now.

[Kennah]

47. Lions ate some dude