Live look:
Welp. Just in case you were someone who randomly thought, ‘I bet getting stalked by a cougar during a jog isn’t as bad as people make it seem,’ this should change your opinion. My heart was racing just watching this and at this point on a typical work day at Strange Brew I have the resting heart rate of a tranquilized sloth.
And the best part of the whole thing was that fact that he had the wherewithal to record it and provide commentary. I realize staring death in the face isn’t a laughing matter, but I had to chuckle at some of the things this guy was saying. I think my favorite sequence was from 4:48-5:10. ‘This sucks ass, this is scary, my heart is racing, this is not fun, I just wanted to go on a run.’ I loved the resignation of that last statement. I’ve been running more in the last few years, and let me tell you, outside of a few crazy people, nobody is excited to go for a run. It’s something you do to hopefully prolong your life and to justify eating an entire pizza later that same night. So the tone that he struck there was perfect. ‘I just wanted to go for a run,’ i.e., ‘I went back and forth about even going on this run, psyched myself into it, and now I’m going to die on a light jog. Perfect.’
As soon as I got done watching this I did what everyone does these days, hopped into the comment section for uncredentialled additional information. A lot of people seem to think that this guy might have inadvertently passed too closely to this cougar’s cub, so all it was trying to do was get him away from that spot, not necessarily attack him. Which is all well and good, but I’m guessing it doesn’t make you feel any better when you see this coming at you:
Lordy.
PS: Can’t do a cougar blog and not post this:
Maybe instead of a gun this jogger should just carry an extra Crystal Gayle t-shirt with him.
