{"id":2023,"date":"2008-07-14T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T05:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2008-07-14T21:59:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T05:59:56","slug":"no-proof-a-mountain-lion-attacked-that-hiker-at-foothills-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/07\/14\/no-proof-a-mountain-lion-attacked-that-hiker-at-foothills-park\/","title":{"rendered":"No proof a mountain lion attacked that hiker at Foothills Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something about that story set off my B.S. detector at about 6 p.m. today … which may very well have been when investigators were making up their minds that there wasn’t a lick of proof that the guy who fell down a ravine in Foothills Park actually got bumped by a big cat. From Mercurynews.com: <\/a><\/p>\n

\n The report of an attack, which came from an unidentified 50-year-old Portola Valley man on Sunday, touched off a swift investigation that brought three state game wardens, a professional tracker and a team of hounds to the 1,400-acre park on Monday. Meanwhile, a forensics expert in Sacramento examined the victim’s shirt for telltale signs such as fur or saliva.<\/p>\n

All came up empty, leaving officials to conclude that the man’s alarming story was mistaken.<\/p>\n

“He believed, I think truly, that he’d been attacked,” Palo Alto police Agent Dan Ryan said. “We have just not been able to substantiate that with the science.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No wonder it seemed so damned unlikely … though this of course killed my theory for why it might have actually happened<\/a> (hey, I spent a solid six seconds coming up with that theory). <\/p>\n

A guy on Channel 2 News just said the hiker’s shirt had no trace of an attack — no hair, no rips, no punctures. But he also noted the hiker did not recant his story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something about that story set off my B.S. detector at about 6 p.m. today … which may very well have been when investigators were making up their minds that there wasn’t a lick of proof that the guy who fell…<\/p>\n

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