A 65-year old Californian woman is credited with saving her husband’s life from a mauling mountain lion. The couple was hiking when she heard her husband utter a “different, horrible plea for help”, and turned around to see the mountain lion wrestling him to the ground. She fought by beating it with a log and poking its eyes with a pen until the lion released the husband and fled.
Wow. I wonder how I would react if Mr. Pinault and I were hiking and a mountain lion attacked him. Would I muster the selfless fortitude to repel the lion? Or would I take my revenge for the time he taunted me for being scared of a snake: “Come on, what’s to be afraid of? It’s just a little mountain lion! Stop screaming, you’re causing a scene!”
