- Scott Lancaster weighed 130 lbs and was the first mountain lion fatality in the history of Colorado.
- Mark Jeffrey Reynolds probably died of a heart attack while mountain biking and the lion dragged his body away as the autopsy could " show no damage to his neck at all, or any damage indicative of an actual attack that caused his death." He was also a small man.
- Robert Nawojski was 55 years old.
A know-it-all is better than a know-nothing. You've provided nothing to contradict the assertion that a 6'2" 230lb man being attacked and killed by a mountain lion would be unprecedented. In 100 years there have been around 20 fatal attacks on humans by mountain lions and all of them are women, children, and fewer than 6 adult males of which none were large men.
Please stop disseminating stupid uninformed information. Stay in your kitchen if you are afraid of mountain lions. I've hiked solo around them and have no fear of being attacked unless I run right by one and show my back to it like some moron yuppie jogger thinking the wild is a safe place to put on your bicycle shorts and run by large wild predators.
In retrospect, morons like you should be afraid as if you do go out into the wild you are more than likely going to get hurt/killed by tripping on a dandelion and having a allergic reaction to testosterone and/or adrenaline you wuss.
My, my someone really did get their panties in a twist...who pissed in your Wheaties today, tough guy? Such hostility. I can't say it's surprising that you've so small an actual life, or such a glaring case of Napoleon Syndrome, that you felt compelled to so earnestly research my little post and then get so venomously lathered up about it.
Sadly for you, neither your or Crow's anecdotal experiences have any real bearing on this subject...it doesn't even matter if you both pranced from peak to peak on your many, über manly hiking adventures sporting nothing but muscle and meat tutus. You were unafraid and survived unscathed and we all should extrapolate from this titillating tidbit of info that, inversely, no danger exists. Really? Why?
On to your 'points'...
1. But, unfortunately for your argument, he wasn't the last.
2. "Amormino said that an autopsy had been completed on the first victim, Reynolds, with gruesome conclusions. "The autopsy concluded that he died from the removal of organs in the chest and abdomen," said Amormino. "It seems he was partially eaten."...seems a bit...hmmm...might the word be "moronic" to interpret those results as a heart attack. But hold the phone, you may be partially right, because I guess I might have a heart attack too were I being eaten alive...oh, and just for the record, this was another one of those "harmless" 110 pound lions.
3. And?....I'm assuming you accidentally omitted some info here because this is something less than a compelling rebuttal.
Let's call a spade a spade, shall we? For all your big boy posturing, you're not an expert; regardless how many walks you've taken. Neither am I, but it seems logical to me that a predator who routinely downs full grown elk might be unlikely to flinch too much from the idea or taking out a measly 200lb fluffy human were he hungry enough, but you're right, that isn't evidence, it's common sense. I find that the death via lion of an adult male human which occurred in the exact habitat that these contestants now occupy to be rather compelling evidence that there may be cause for caution and a heightened degree of the usual safety precautions employed due to the presence of large predators, regardless what difference in height might exist. I believe, as does the Mountain Lion Foundation, that good reason exists to be alert and exercise caution in lion dense habitats.
As to your numerous, vitriolic insults, I'm sure they made you feel real hard...but it's the height of idiocy to comment upon who I am, what I do or how I live when you haven't the first, or to be more precise, a single, clue. You believe me to be a wuss, well, I believe that you sound like a garden-variety, arrogant meathead, but I could be wrong. I'm not, as you imply, afraid of the wild. In fact, it's pretty much my church...but unlike you I don't consider it admirable, or brave, to be incautious or arrogant in my approach to large predators. I respect the natural world and work with her and exercise proper respect. This isn't fear, it's intelligence and instinct at work. Unlike you, I have nothing to prove by taking pride in stupidly conducting myself as if I were always the apex predator...but hey, feel free to go out there and get as chummy or careless as you like with large predators; I'm sure they'll appreciate it in due course.