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A hiker in Canada was approached by a cougar. She blasted Metallica to scare it
- throwaway8879 7y agoWell at lest she had the good sense and empathy for that cougar to not play anything from the St. Anger album.
- reificator 7y agoI was just going through and adding ratings to all the Metallica songs I have in Google Play Music the other day. Not a single other album gets all thumbs down. It's shocking that not only are their worst songs on that album, but also that there's not a single gem in the rough. I mean, I thumbs upped several songs on Load and Reload, and those albums are rightly considered pretty bad.
- taylodl 7y agoThe title song is alright. No, not their best, but it's alright. The rest of the album though? Yeah, no.
- reificator 7y agoIt's far too repetitive for me, I find it extremely grating. It is at least more pleasant to listen to than Frantictictictictictictic tock.
- omarhaneef 7y agoI thought the spoiler would turn out to be she played "Nothing else matters" Edit: I hate to explain these, but the joke is that it is (for them) a slow ballad, and not the kind of thing you expect to be scary.
- Gabriel_Martin 7y agoway too mellow. She needed to melt faces right away :)
- taylodl 7y agoI would have gone with "That Was Just Your Life"!
- tejohnso 7y agoIs it wise to antagonize dangerous wild animals like that? I would've left it alone and hoped that it did the same in return. Then again, if I were to start hiking, I'd probably read up on these things so I'm not a complete idiot in the wild.
- bargl 7y agoI'm a moderately educated on hiking around cougars and bears. But I'm by no means an expert. Cougars and Black Bears -> when encountered you want to appear as big and menacing as possible. You scare them off. AKA if you have a coat you hold it up like a cape to make yourself appear really big. The best way to approach a cougar is to scare it off. Brown Bears -> Make sure there are no cubs between you and the mother bear and back the fuck away. They are faster and climb better than you. Don't try to scare them just go away. (Please read up on this before doing it) but with a bear I believe playing dead is the best way to go when attacked. This is similar to a bull I believe. A good deterrent with a bear is bear mace, if Hiking in a place where there is a bear I'd suggest taking some. Also there's a ton more to avoiding bear meetings but you mostly need to worry if you see a cub bear. Edit: if you do start hiking please please do read up on this. Cougars and bears can and do kill hikers even when treated properly. While not the biggest risk to your life in the US, it's still a good idea to go forewarned. Also changed wording in first sentence. Edit 2: Changed advice to specify brown bear and black bear.
- syntheticnature 7y agoWorth noting that your bear advice is for brown bears (mostly Western US); black bears (mostly Eastern US), you want to scare off in much the same fashion as cougars, though with the bit where you check for cubs first.
- dole 7y agoI hope she paid any applicable fees before playing licensed music for a public venue.
- omarhaneef 7y agoThis is why you should carry around a live recording -- they're fine with that.
- tucson1234 7y agoI got attacked by a cougar once, but I doubt that I would have ever gotten to 1st base with her if I had played something from Metallica. She almost certainly would have turned away too.
- dheera 7y agoCould you please elaborate on your experience -- where and what time of day? did you see it coming? what did you do when you saw it? what did you do that ultimately allowed you to survive?
- cvuls 7y agohe's just pulling your leg, he's referring to an older woman. they're known as "cougars". but this lil' thread gave me a laugh.
- dheera 7y ago-___- I see
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoHis idiotic post was highly inappropriate for this site, and so is yours because your last sentence encourages the behavior.
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoIt's a cancerous reddit joke. He thinks he is funny because "cougar" is sometimes used to describe an older woman who seeks a younger man.
- dheera 7y agoThanks for the downvotes guys. Next time someone mentions that they had a negative experience about being attacked or some such I'll be sure that the HN community does not encourage learning by asking about it.
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- jamesakirk 7y ago"That is, until Gallant opened her phone and chose the loudest band she could think of: Metallica." Clearly, Gallant is not a Motorhead fan.
- throwaway3627 7y agoI recommend "Overkill."
- injb 7y agoThe Metallica cover version?
- robbrit 7y ago"Don't Tread on Me" is pretty light as far as Metallica goes. I wonder what the cougar would have done if she had unloaded "Battery" or "Dyer's Eve" on it.
- throwaway3627 7y agoAs a teenager, I had one those humongous Pioneer radio/amps from the early 80's, a pair of heavy 14"'s and high-end Discman that I blasted "Master of Puppets." No mountain lions could be found.
- greenburger 7y agoCougars in California appear to be afraid of human voices, not surprising as we are their largest threat. Convincingly demonstrated by this research [1] PDF [2]. [1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13344 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13344 [2] https://wildlife.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Suraci_et_al-2019-Ecology_Letters.pdf https://wildlife.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Suraci_...