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No one was
injured in the incident at John F. Kennedy High School, said
Andrew Hughan of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife,
and the mountain lion was transported to a safe habitat in the
nearby Santa Susana Mountains.
Students at the high school and residents, meanwhile, celebrated
the sighting on social media and live-tweeted its capture on
Twitter. Ironically, the high school - located in Granada Hills
- has the mascot of a "Golden Cougar".
"Get lectured in class oooorrrr get killed by a mountain lion,"
@gisellede_leon said in a widely shared tweet. "It was nice
knowing yall."
Hughan said the Los Angeles Police Department first began
getting reports of the animal on campus between 7 a.m. and 9
a.m. PT and locked down the school before summoning game
wardens.
"By this time it had run away from school, which was good for
everybody involved, it ran two or three blocks away where they
were able to put a dart in it and it went down in the front yard
of a house," he said.
He said Fish and Game officers would wait for the cougar to wake
up but expected that it would recover with little long-term
effects from the incident.
"He'll just wake up with a headache, look around and go 'Where
the heck am I?'" Hughan said.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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