From the Associated Press via Yahoo News:
JERUSALEM - A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.
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"This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," said 49-year-old Arthur Du Mosch, a nature guide. "I don't know why I did it. I wasn't thinking, I just acted."
This is more MadPriest's style, but, since I've been sad the past couple of days, I felt in need of a little levity. MadPriest, you can steal this and save it in your cats folder, if you ever get that back up on your blog.
I actually heard this on NPR this morning (during an unscheduled trip to school - teenager missed the bus). I thought of Maddy, too, but was too busy to hunt for it earlier.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you found something to smile about, grandmère. Your recent entries have left me quite sober and grim, as well. Before the leopard story, I heard this morning that something like another 17 Americans were killed just yesterday in Iraq. And our numbers pale compared to that of the Iraqis, many of them civilians caught up in the crossfire.
But on a lighter note, I'm wondering what my beagle would do if a leopard jumped into our bed.....
See if this link works:
ReplyDeleteNPR Leopard Story
Eeep!
ReplyDeleteFighting off leopards in one's skivvies cannot be fun!
God help us! The count is up to 117 for the month, up from 103 when I put up the Memorial Day post, with the total at 3468. This can't go on.
ReplyDeleteIt comes of allowing bad language, ma cher, but thank you anyway.
ReplyDeletegood Lord. what do you say about a story like this one????
ReplyDeleteWell, the levity didn't last long. The casualty count sobered me up quickly. I just wrote to my senators and representative to get us the hell out of Iraq. What else can I do?
ReplyDeleteThe best part of the story is this: "Du Mosch's pet cat was in the bed with him at the time, along with his young daughter who had been frightened by a mosquito in her own room."
ReplyDeleteD'ya think that kid won't complain about mosquitoes again?
Paul, that would be a crowded bed: the man, the pet cat, the daughter, and the leopard, and possibly even the mosquito, which might have followed the girl. I'll bet she was cured of complaining about mosquitoes.
ReplyDeleteThe poor girl would be frightened all summer if she lived where I live.