• Console_Modder
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    9 months ago

    Used to work with a guy who was fully convinced he had like a 90% chance of winning a fight bare handed with a mountain lion. 100% if he has a pocket knife…

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      9 months ago

      That’s a cat that’s as big as a human. They’re 6 to 7 feet long and weigh 75 to 160 pounds. And they’re very good at hiding, so the chances are you get surprised.

      Some people…

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        9 months ago

        …with multiple “pocket knives” at the end of each limb and a jaw and set of teeth specifically designed to kill fleshy opponents with a skull or trachea crush.

        It also eats an all-natural diet and exercises every fucking day of its life. And has spent all of that life practicing at being really fucking good at killing things that don’t want to be dead, and spend all of their lives practicing to avoid the mountain lion.

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      9 months ago

      A guy in Texas killed a mountain lion with a Spyderco pocketknife because it had a hold of his kid.

      So if the mountain lion had a mouth that was preoccupied with a small child, dude could be right.