This is a bit of an entertaining story. In Essex (UK), a couple - Gill and Steve Atkin - thought they sighted a lion prowling amid a wheat field in their Clacton-on-Sea (name of the suburb) neighborhood and they snapped the following picture.
Next thing you know, Essex police launched a 'lion hunt' to find and bring down the mystery lion. Needless to say, the whole town was alarmed and made aware of this big cat threat.
The next day a domestic cat owner says that it wasn't a lion, it was her large 'Maine' cat named Teddy Bear who happens to like being out and playing and hunting for birds in the field.
Of course Mrs Atkin isn't very pleased:
quote:
Mrs Atkin said: "The Mirror [newspaper] has made a bit of a farce of it this morning, saying it was a cat called Tom, but no, I don't think it was a domestic cat.
"Whatever it was, it's definitely still out there."
I'd post the video of Teddy Bear, but it's a BBC video and they don't seem to allow embedding of their news casts:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19399827
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