OT - If you live on North Campus, Watch out for...Cougars?

Submitted by M-Wolverine on

 

Today (8:30am) DPS received a report of a sighting on North Campus of a suspicious animal, described as a possible cougar, near Hubbard Road between Green Road and Stone Drive. Police officers and housing security personnel searched the area but did not find a suspicious animal.

 

Please take extra precautions if you are in this area, especially with young children and bicyclists. If you observe a suspicious animal, immediately contact University Police at 911 or (734) 763-1131.

 

http://www.police.umich.edu/?posting_id=226

So be careful out there...don't get, uh, eaten.

Princetonwolverine

March 22nd, 2012 at 3:53 PM ^

Beware the cougars peeking into windows or hiding behind trees otherwise they are not "suspicious" and can be left alone.

Mabel Pines

March 22nd, 2012 at 3:55 PM ^

I thought what everyone else did, and was saddened that I would have to break it to my sorority sisters that we would be partying on North Campus for our 20th reunion in 2013!!! 

Glad to hear it's an actual Cougar...

Ivan Karamazov

March 22nd, 2012 at 6:07 PM ^

In areas where cougars are more common, such as country in the Appalachain mountains, habitats overlap with mountain bike trails. Cougar attacks and/or aggresive behavior are reported more often than you might think on bike trails.

Imagine you are a cougar and a loud bright colored thing that smells like sweat and exertion comes barreling through your forest. They think prey or intruder.

That being said north campus is much more urban than the situation above so its a wash probably in terms of danger to bicyclists versus others.

jtmc33

March 22nd, 2012 at 4:00 PM ^

What's a man-cougar called?   Because that's what I am... a 37 year old hot-daddy with an appetite for beer, ball, and brunettes' boobs.

Ooooh, almost time to pick my daughter up from school.  Talk to you dudes tomorrow.... hang 10, party on... High Five?   Anyone?   Ok... cool.

 

WolvinLA2

March 22nd, 2012 at 7:11 PM ^

Really?  Isn't a middle-aged man interested in hooking up with younger women a....man?  When I think of a cougar I don't think of a woman looking to hook up with a middle schooler, I think of a woman looking to hook up with a 20-something.

That's why there is a name for women who do it.  There's not a man equivalent because it's all of them. 

WolvinLA2

March 22nd, 2012 at 7:51 PM ^

What is it about that action exactly that lowers your opinion of fraternities? And because the guys who did it were in his fraternity that makes "fraternities" bad? Had he just said his friends did it, would that lower your opinion of all friends? The only thing we know from his story is that two consenting adults had sex. I bet even guys outside of fraternities do that.

Schembo

March 22nd, 2012 at 4:10 PM ^

Everybody calm down, they're only dangerous after three cosmopolitans.  We don't have any confirmation that this is the case right now.