man fights a mountain lion with a chainsaw

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**greenskin lynn**

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=456&sid=1719548

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Wielding his chain saw as a weapon, a Colorado man says he fought off a starving mountain lion that attacked him while he was camping with his wife and two toddlers in northwestern Wyoming.

Dustin Britton, a 32-year-old mechanic and ex-Marine from Windsor, Colo., said he was alone cutting firewood about 100 feet from his campsite in the Shoshone National Forest when he saw the lion staring at him from some bushes.

Britton revved his 18-inch chain saw and tried to back away. But the 100-pound lion followed.

As the animal pounced, the 6-foot-tall, 170-pound Britton raised his saw and met it head-on _ a collision he said felt like a grown man running right into him.

"It batted me three or four times with its front paws and as quick as I hit it with that saw it just turned away," he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Britton later discovered he'd inflicted a six- to eight-inch gash on the lion's shoulder. He said he was surprised the damage wasn't worse.

"You would think if you hit an animal with a chain saw it would dig right in. I might as well have hit it with a hockey stick," he said.

The wounded animal retreated, leaving Britton with a only small puncture wound on his forearm.

The attack occurred Sunday evening at a campsite 27 miles west of Cody. Wildlife agents shot and killed the lion Monday after it attacked a dog brought in to track the animal.

Authorities say the lion was in poor physical condition and appeared to be starving. The lion was 4 to 5 years old.

Mountain lions are considered reclusive by nature and officials said the circumstances of the attack were highly unusual. Wyoming officials have documented only eight cases of mountain lions acting aggressively toward humans over the last decade.

After Britton's confrontation, he and his wife, Kirsta, decided to stay the night in their pop-up camper with their two children rather than risk packing up with the lion still on the loose.

The next morning he told a passing U.S. Forest Service employee about the incident and that's when wildlife agents were called.

Tests for rabies and other diseases came up negative, but officials said they were continuing to analyze the animal for other potential diseases.

"It's very, very rare" for lions to attack, said Wyoming Game and Fish spokesman Warren Mischke. "We're still trying to investigate why this lion would behave this way."

**Wrexasaur**

This must be some sort of test preview of the next Rambo movie. He has kids, he is a marine, NO ONE WILL STAND IN RAMBOS WAY!!!

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Pffrt.

Real men attack vicious natural Predators with nothing more than a Cricket Bat.

And he has the cheek to have 'Britton' as a surname. Wuss.

**BrookM**

There was a farmer in Africa who tore the tongue from a cheetah's (?) mouth with his bare hands in self defence.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Now that Farmer wasn't a wuss. However, it is important to remember that a Cricket Bat generally isn't required against Cheetahs, because they are generally quite wee.

My favourite story of non-wussiness concerns an Australian swimmer. Whilst out for a paddle, a shark decided to have a nibble of his leg. Not being a wuss, the bloke knew the correct course of action. Back in the water, find the Shark, and tear it's gills apart in an explosion of violence

Stoopit Septics and their dependance on all things petrol driven! What happened to the men who would take on a whopping great Mammoth with nothing more than a pointy stick?

**Dreadwinter**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Stoopit Septics and their dependance on all things petrol driven! What happened to the men who would take on a whopping great Mammoth with nothing more than a pointy stick?

They didn't so much take them on as scare them off a cliff.....

**jp400**

Or scare them into a cliff then drop rocks onto their heads from above.......

**Gman513**

Or jump on their back and try to poke their brains out.

**AgeOfEgos**

A challenger appears!

**BrookM**

AgeOfEgos wrote:A challenger appears!

It lacks the tricycle.

**Ahtman**

This was more awesome when I misread the title as "Man Fights Mountain With Chainsaw".

**warpcrafter**

Real Men Use Powertools!

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

warpcrafter wrote:Real Men Use Powertools!

Balls! Real men just kick stuff in the Nads an hope for the best. Which is a bloody good tactic against the Chain Bear.

I give it a good shot in the pills, and like all creatures with testicles, it's natural reaction is to grab it's nads, and feel sorry for itself. Of course, with Chainsaw hands, Mr Chainbear is only going to slice it's legs off in a welter of gore. Thus, I win.

**hawkeye**

AgeOfEgos wrote:A challenger appears!

Evolution happens much faster then I was led to believe.

**Nailz94**

*On the floor laughing* PMSL

**jp400**

AgeOfEgos wrote:A challenger appears!

A HERO RISES FROM THE BACKWOODS TO CHALLENGE THE CHALLENGER

**rubiksnoob**

jp400 wrote:
AgeOfEgos wrote:A challenger appears!

A HERO RISES FROM THE BACKWOODS TO CHALLENGE THE CHALLENGER

A NEW CHALLENGER TO CHALLENGE THE HERO WHO DARED TO CHALLENGE THE ORIGINAL CHALLENGER!

**jp400**

Sweet Jesus on a Pogo stick......

What the hell is she going to do? Sit on someone??!?!?

**Frazzled**

I THINK THATS A HE!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHH!

(I have two chainsaws actually).

**Nightwatch**

That's not very nice.

**jp400**

........

Dear god........

**Nailz94**

jp400 wrote:

Damn Right

**SlaveToDorkness**

What the hell is she going to do? Sit on someone??!?!?

Marry you!

**Nailz94**

WTF!!!

**rubiksnoob**

**jp400**

Nurgleboy77 wrote:
What the hell is she going to do? Sit on someone??!?!?

Marry you!

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**Nailz94**

ahahaha! these pics are awesome!

**Deff Dread red Edition**

Leatherface approves of this thread!

**Nightwatch**

Why do we always have to get so graphic?
(sorry for the horrible pun, it was hanging open there)

**Nailz94**

ahahaha! Does Leatherface kill mountain lions??