{"id":41915,"date":"2013-05-28T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41915"},"modified":"2013-05-31T20:14:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:14:48","slug":"skater-beats-off-cougar-with-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41915","title":{"rendered":"Skater Beats Off Cougar With Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cougar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-41916\" alt=\"cougar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cougar-200x164.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cougar-200x164.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cougar.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re pretty sure this isn&#8217;t the first time a skateboarder has been hit from behind by a cougar and then run for his life, but it may be the first time a skater has used his board in an real mountain lion attack. <\/p>\n<p>According to a story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/story\/2013\/05\/26\/calgary-banff-cougar-closure.html\"><strong>CBC<\/strong><\/a>, that&#8217;s exactly what happened to a skater in Banff, Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"yui_3_4_1_2_1369772696881_40\">Parks Canada officials are out with tracking dogs to collect droppings and try to find the cougar. They say they have spoken with a man who says he fought off a cougar attack with his skateboard. . .\u00a0&#8220;They say they have confirmed that a man was knocked down by a cougar in that area Thursday but he swung his skateboard at the animal, causing it to back off,&#8221; said <strong>Bill Hunt<\/strong>, a resource conservation specialist with Banff National Park<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The man didn&#8217;t originally report the attack because he thought it might have been illegal to hit the animal with his skateboard. Which is odd, because all the guys we know who&#8217;ve hit cougars weren&#8217;t usually worried about the law, they were scared someone would see them with the beast the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Editors&#8217; Note<\/strong>: Thank you to everyone who sent us a link to this story. It has been the number one most contributed story in our history. Which isn&#8217;t saying a lot, but it&#8217;s definitely saying something.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/story\/2013\/05\/26\/calgary-banff-cougar-closure.html\">CBC News<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pretty sure this isn&#8217;t the first time a skateboarder has been hit from behind by a cougar and then run for his life, but it may be the first time a skater has used his board in an real mountain lion attack. According to a story on the CBC, that&#8217;s exactly what happened to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41976,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915\/revisions\/41976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}