A hungry mountain lion caused quite the panic at John F. Kennedy High School, in Los Angeles, when it decided to check out what the cafeteria was serving for lunch.
The curious cougar on the prowl forced administrators in the school to cancel lunch and make students stay in their classrooms during lunch.
Initially spotted lurking near the lunchroom by cafeteria workers, police were called in and sealed up the area while they waited on a local game warden to tranquilize the massive feline in order to safely move it, according to Andrew Hughan, a spokesman for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Once the 90-pound animal had been shot with sedatives, it did’t go down easily. The cougar managed to run off to a neighboring backyard. The cougar didn’t exactly go unnoticed in the neighborhood.
“I came around to our side gate. And I could see that there was a mountain lion right out front. It was pretty interesting,” Cody Romero, a resident that videoed the cougar, told CBS News. “As I saw the video, I was thinking, wow, now I’m in the valley right now. There are mountains around and I guess the lion made it through.”
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The mountain lion held out, but eventually the sedatives knocked him out, allowing him to be taken to a safe environment.
Originally thought to be P-22, a mountain lion that lives in Griffith Park, game wardens soon discovered the cat was roughly 3-years-old. The cougar more than likely had to pass through the dangerous freeways of LA in order to reach the school – a terrifying idea in itself. He won’t have to worry about any dangers for long, as he’s being taken the the Santa Susana Mountains, which were deemed a suitable habitat, according to the Associated Press.
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