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		NJ cops use dead deer as bait in sting operation to catch a large feline that apparently drops ten-dollar bills (nj.com)		27
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AlwaysRightBoy

2010-03-12 05:39:52 PM

My sister lives out there and because people have a lot of property, they keep a lot of exotic pets (such as the tiger lady from Jackson a few years), so it could be something like that. Or a bobcat.

damageddude

2010-03-12 06:01:05 PM

AlwaysRightBoy: My sister lives out there and because people have a lot of property

Wrong part of town. I live about a 1/2 mile from there -- the "lion" was seen on the border of my development (Taylor Mills Rd). The houses here only have 1/3 an acre at most. The immediate area is fairly well developed with private home developments, townhouses and a senior development. However, there are protected woods nearby where an escaped animal could hangout. But it would be a trek from property big enough for someone to have housed the critter for it to get there.

SobrietyFighter

2010-03-12 07:31:13 PM

no i didn't read the article, only speculating that this is what it's about... giggidy

The Angry Hand of God

2010-03-12 07:35:35 PM

Did anyone notice the link below?

MANVILLE -- Authorities arrested three borough residents and seized about $2,340 worth of marijuana yesterday,(THURSDAY) the result of a four-month long investigation, officials said.

Great four months of work by the state government to bust $2,340 worth of weed. Good job! That only probably cost taxpayers $250,000. Haven't they heard about how you are supposed to take that amount and multiply it times 1000?

It's a good thing they got that off the street. Who knows what those 6 crazy people that bought from them could have done with that! Can we please legalize this shiat already and be done with it?

Sixxtwo

2010-03-12 07:37:26 PM

am I missing some joke/meme/otherwise involving $10 bills?

farkinawsome

2010-03-12 07:41:33 PM

GOT MY VOTE FOR THE MOST CONFUSING HEADLINE OF THE YEAR

mvalpreda

2010-03-12 07:43:08 PM

Don't let the $10 bill at the top of the picture fool you.

media.nj.com

HiFiGuy

2010-03-12 07:45:08 PM

Sixxtwo: am I missing some joke/meme/otherwise involving $10 bills?

You're missing a click-through.

CygnusDarius

2010-03-12 07:47:47 PM

Wait, if you're going to trap a cougar, don't you need a single guy form the 20-28 year range?.

TedNigma

2010-03-12 07:49:28 PM

That was just my Druid in cat form getting food for my hunters pet. Don't fret, I only eat Horde.

For The Alliance!

AlwaysRightBoy

2010-03-12 08:36:48 PM

damageddude: Wrong part of town.

I really meant the general area. My sister actually lives in Millstone, close the Manalapan border. There's a lot of land over there. In the general area, you have Assunpink wildlife management area, Turkey Swamp and a lot of green acres state land. My sisters property abuts 33 acres of green acres. Her neighbor raises peacocks and my sister raises all kinds of chickens.

keithrogan

2010-03-12 08:46:44 PM

The bill is 6" long. The track is less than 3" wide.

Not a cougar.

maceinator

2010-03-12 08:52:05 PM

This is - literally - my backyard. Kinda cool actually. We have a small herd of deer that live in the woods behind the house, and it has apparently been feeding on them. It's probably sleeping under the deck. I'm not going to check.

damageddude

2010-03-12 08:53:23 PM

AlwaysRightBoy: My sister actually lives in Millstone, close the Manalapan border

Yeah that is the other side of town. I'm closer to Route 9 and where the "lion" was seen was developed 20-40 years ago. You're right about Millstone -- they have some big properties. There used to be a tiger preserve down in Jackson.

Anyway, only wild life I saw today was a limping raccoon by my shed.

damageddude

2010-03-12 08:54:31 PM

maceinator: This is - literally - my backyard.

Monmouth Heights here.

maceinator

2010-03-12 09:02:31 PM

Manalapan, Wyncrest Estates (30 years here). The field and wooded area they're talking about is my backyard. About 15 years ago, we found half a deer at the end of the street. The next day, the other half was gone. We thought we had a mountain lion back then, but no one else reported anything.

A Boy Named Sous

2010-03-12 09:05:47 PM

What a large feline in New Jersey may look like:

www.audienceoftwo.com

maceinator

2010-03-12 09:07:45 PM

This is the are it was seen in. As you can see, there's a reasonably large wooded area that borders the field and residential area.

AlwaysRightBoy

2010-03-12 09:11:27 PM

maceinator: This is - literally - my backyard. Kinda cool actually. We have a small herd of deer that live in the woods behind the house, and it has apparently been feeding on them. It's probably sleeping under the deck. I'm not going to check.

We have venison all year round and my brother in-law never steps off his property with the shotgun.
/within season of course

cmn85

2010-03-12 09:57:52 PM

Large feline? 100 acres of woods?

img.photobucket.com

platedlizard

2010-03-12 10:14:11 PM

keithrogan: The bill is 6" long. The track is less than 3" wide.

Not a cougar.

Yeah, reminds me of a 'cougar' sighting a few years ago that resulted in a school lock down. Turned out the feline in question was a large marmalade house cat.

Still, a three inch footprint is probably larger then even the biggest house cat could manage, unless it was a Savannah Cat (^)

Jgok

2010-03-13 01:05:37 AM

platedlizard: keithrogan: The bill is 6" long. The track is less than 3" wide.

Not a cougar.

Yeah, reminds me of a 'cougar' sighting a few years ago that resulted in a school lock down. Turned out the feline in question was a large marmalade house cat.

Still, a three inch footprint is probably larger then even the biggest house cat could manage, unless it was a Savannah Cat (^)

Could be a decent-sized bobcat. The track shape looks like a bobcat's hind paw (muddy ground and bad angle, hard to tell), and the track size is about right for one around 25 pounds.

platedlizard

2010-03-13 01:31:42 AM

Jgok: platedlizard: keithrogan: The bill is 6" long. The track is less than 3" wide.

Not a cougar.

Yeah, reminds me of a 'cougar' sighting a few years ago that resulted in a school lock down. Turned out the feline in question was a large marmalade house cat.

Still, a three inch footprint is probably larger then even the biggest house cat could manage, unless it was a Savannah Cat (^)

Could be a decent-sized bobcat. The track shape looks like a bobcat's hind paw (muddy ground and bad angle, hard to tell), and the track size is about right for one around 25 pounds.

That's what I thought at first, but TFA said that the cat in question was seen with a long tail. Mind, it could be that someone mistook a house cat for the one they were looking for.

Jgok

2010-03-13 02:12:41 AM

platedlizard: Jgok: platedlizard: keithrogan: The bill is 6" long. The track is less than 3" wide.

Not a cougar.

Yeah, reminds me of a 'cougar' sighting a few years ago that resulted in a school lock down. Turned out the feline in question was a large marmalade house cat.

Still, a three inch footprint is probably larger then even the biggest house cat could manage, unless it was a Savannah Cat (^)

Could be a decent-sized bobcat. The track shape looks like a bobcat's hind paw (muddy ground and bad angle, hard to tell), and the track size is about right for one around 25 pounds.

That's what I thought at first, but TFA said that the cat in question was seen with a long tail. Mind, it could be that someone mistook a house cat for the one they were looking for.

Ah, I didn't catch the bit about the long tail. Well, it's either a domestic hybrid or a wild cat that's WAY out of it's range (swamp cat, maybe?), if it actually does have a long tail.

platedlizard

2010-03-13 02:20:39 AM

Eh, they might never find it. In 2004 I lived on Olinda Road on Maui, just after the Maui Big Cat disappeared for good. Rumor had it the owner found it and shot, shoveled, and shut up.

Inhalien

2010-03-13 01:52:48 PM