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[None of the above]

Original article: http://www.huffingto..._n_1832982.html

'Lion' In Essex: Police Call Off Search For Big Cat


The Huffington Post UK |  Posted: 27/08/2012 14:49 Updated: 27/08/2012 15:23

Edited by Saru, 27 August 2012 - 02:52 PM.
Removed copyrighted material / pictures

[ealdwita]

Seen by a homesick Millwall supporter?

[None of the above]

Atlantia, on 27 August 2012 - 02:31 PM, said:

Original article: http://www.huffingto..._n_1832982.html

'Lion' In Essex: Police Call Off Search For Big Cat


The Huffington Post UK |  Posted: 27/08/2012 14:49 Updated: 27/08/2012 15:23

Hey Saru, how about a PM when you move a guys threads? I thought you'd deleted it because I used the word p***y for domestic cat and the forum filter picked it up!

[Darkwind]

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2.5ft high and about 4ft long

Here is a quote from the panther sighting under the main article. LOL sorry that is not a panther, I have seen our native Florida panther in the wild and they are bigger than that. That size is just a big kitty cat.

[None of the above]

What a waste of time these blooming 'lions' are! Anyone remember the stuffed toy incident from last year?:
http://www.guardian....ice-southampton

[Saru]

Atlantia, on 27 August 2012 - 02:56 PM, said:

Hey Saru, how about a PM when you move a guys threads? I thought you'd deleted it because I used the word p***y for domestic cat and the forum filter picked it up!

I didn't move your thread.

That said, you did post the same topic immediately above the existing one (twice) in the same section.

[None of the above]

Saru, on 27 August 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

I didn't move your thread.

That said, you did post the same topic immediately above the existing one (twice) in the same section.

I posted it once and it was deleted, so I posted it again having altered the word that I thought had given offence.

[Saru]

Atlantia, on 27 August 2012 - 03:07 PM, said:

I posted it once and it was deleted, so I posted it again having altered the word that I thought had given offence.

It wasn't deleted, it was merged with this thread.

[Coffey]

Junior Chubb, on 26 August 2012 - 10:47 PM, said:

The article has changed a few times (Mail) since posting the link, they originally mentioned a zoo, now its a circus lion...

Oh god, with how they treat them, it will porbably be really agressive. I'd certianly stay in my house. lol

Bling Zombie, on 26 August 2012 - 11:20 PM, said:

They say it's from Colchester Zoo

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Essex police are working with experts from Colchester Zoo who believe the reports to be genuine after being shown a photograph by a member of the public.

That doesn't mention it coming from there.

[Cyaneyed]

"Witnesses reported seeing a lioness in fields stalking up and down a hedgerow before it was disturbed by a farmer and ran off."

I just watched the interview with the couple, they actually said it was lying down preening, and stood up to look at them momentarily before moving off when seeing the farmer. Nothing of 'stalking', which I guess makes the story sexier since their story made it sound so benevolent.

Add this to the changing details on where the lion 'did' come from shown in this thread...my diagnosis, bad journalism!

[Cyaneyed]

Solved?

[ThePhantomFlanFlinger]

Oh in the name of god....some now think a cat was mistaken for a male lion or a lioness,depending on which report you read..?...its getting to the point now where this country is running out of villages for all the idiots we seem to have in our midst..!

Edited by BrianPotter, 28 August 2012 - 06:33 AM.

[Oppono Astos]

Unfortunately the BBC and some papers today have fixated on the wrong photo as the so-called evidence - and which TBH looks like the infamous large soft-toy tiger which has caused mistaken reports before.

Edited by Oppono Astos, 28 August 2012 - 10:21 AM.

[Super-Fly]

LMAO, class.

Stumbling home from the pub and seeing this, sobering to say the least.

Thanks,

[Darkwind]

Have they posted the actual picture the people took?