This New Yorker is getting his dander up over a reported mountain lion roaming Rochester.
Curtis Jones said he has armed himself with a baseball bat after he spotted the big cat lurking around his block last week — and locked eyes with the beast as it slinked by and sent neighbors scattering.
“It when right over there, and it said ‘Rawr!’” said Jones, who spotted the panther prowling around his street Wednesday. “I seen it, see me, see it.”
“I heard the ‘Rawr,’ I felt the ‘Rawr.’ I know he be pushing, I know that,” Jones told WHAM. “In my head I’m like, ‘No, I gotta go, man. I’m out.’”
He was just one of numerous people in the Rochester neighborhood who reported spotting the beast last Wednesday, prompting police to order a shelter in place while a search for the suspected cougar was launched.