Canadian lady blasts Metallica tune to scare off encroaching cougar
A fast-thinking Vancouver Island lady turned to the mighty Metallica to fend off a cougar in her path, blasting the legendary metallic band’s “Don’t Tread on Me” to scare away the ferocious feline.
In accordance with native information outlet Kelowna Now, Dee Galant and her canine Murphy have been out for his or her common stroll once they noticed a creature that she couldn’t fairly make out at first. “It was crouched down, doing that form of prowl, predator stroll that they do — that was after I waved my arms and yelled, ‘Hey, you cease!’ and it did,” she recalled.
“Initially I wasn’t that scared,” she continued. “I bear in mind considering, ‘Cool, that’s a cougar,’ after which it was, ‘Why is it nonetheless there?’ earlier than turning into, ‘Oh my God, it’s coming towards me, I have to make it cease.’”
That’s the place Metallica got here into play. Gallant took out her cellphone and noticed “Don’t Tread on Me” by Metallica in her music library. “I assumed it was the noisiest factor on my cellphone that might most likely scare it, that was additionally the message I needed to convey to the cougar.”
And wouldn’t it, the “Black Album” monitor scared the cougar off. “As quickly as the primary notes blared out, it bumped into the bush,” stated Galant.
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Now that Galant and her canine are secure, she desires to personally thank the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame band. “I’d like to contact them sometime and inform James Hetfield that he saved my life,” she concluded.
To your comfort, we’ve embedded Metallica’s “Don’t Tread on Me” beneath, so the subsequent time you encounter a cougar, simply convey up this text and hit play.
