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A month or so later, my uncle saw it crossing a road. A month or few months after that, my cousins and I were swimming in a swimming pool that is probably 1,000 feet from the track. My cousin pauses and stares off in the woods. He said there was what looked like a dog staring at us from the woods. His description fit the description of the mountain lion so that was a bit creepy. It sounded as if it was stalking us. We have never seen it again. We are not known for having mountain lions and I don't recall anyone else ever seeing one. I did a little research and apparently we do have them, but they must be in very small numbers. It was cool seeing something so rare.
Disclaimer: it wasn't me.
If I had a heart attack I wouldn't want anyone to miss their day of riding cause of me. Life is for the living after all. And I have to think that he was enjoying the view.
If the guy had died due to an MX accident that would have been horrible. But he died because of his food choices and he just happended to be at the track when it happended.
I had the owner of the track call his mom (number in his cell phone) and I offered to drive his bike and truck back to her in Houston. She declined.
It is weird that their are 3 people in this thread that were there that particular day. Were any of you there when the fast black dude crashed while I was trying to keep up with him and snapped his spine bad (he recovered)? Or the following weekend when I disintegrated my L1 (I still ride). Both accidents were influenced by huge random pot holes on a largely unmaintained race track.
I was even there for the Chris Cagle video shoot for 'Chicks Dig It' - featuring none other than Kenny 'Cowboy' Bartram.
I didn't make the final cut on that one, dammit!
Edit: Wow, I just remembered I also won a brand new 2004 CRF250 at Cross Creek in one of their raffles.
Sold it for $5400 the next week!!
I caught the tail/empennage section pretty good after seeing it broad-side quickly as it blurred across my path...no markings that I could see. It was so funny. In my head, I heard my brain say,"Hey! That ain't no 15, Dumb-Ass!"
I was on a KX500 enjoying the morning & earlier had seen a band of horses with a beautiful black Mustang running along with me...between me and the band...he was about 100 yards away and he was awesome.
There's such amazing scenery out in the Desert.
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we drove through red rock area and something flew in front me about one hundred yards ahead of me
now at the time 82/83 i was up to speed on what was standard issue in our air force as far as aircraft goes
and I have no Idea what the aircraft I saw was!
twin tail/twin engine/severe dihedral on the vertical surfaces/ camo blue with gray/
one pilot. the profile was like a nothing I've ever witnessed.
cool stuff. I still don't know what it was.
cheers, Pat
When my parents were helping me move to Dallas we were traveling in a convoy heading east from Lubbock. About an hour and a half outside of Dallas there was a particularly large piece of road-kill lying on the shoulder of the highway. My mom swears that it was a large cat of some type -- she seems to think that it was a jaguar because of its dark, almost black color. She's convinced it was a feline due to its long tail.
I did some research and apparently Jaguars have made it up into Texas from Mexico. Dallas seems too far north to me for those type of cats. Very well could have been a mountain lion.
Big cats captivate me. I spent a long time at the Dallas World Aquarium watching their black jaguar. Most impressive athletes on the planet, in my opinion.
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