ACA tomorrow night

[angelite64]

A Current Affair is doing a report tomorrow night 8/10/08 on the black panther roaming Sydneys outskirts.

[Christine]

I saw that advertised. I will have to ask someone to tape it because I won't be home.

[Alien88]

Will be watching it for sure.

[Salt Breeze]

Yes...saw that advertised.  I wondered whether the video they showed in the pre-run was actual footage.   Should be interesting.

[Salt Breeze]

They showed basically the same pics and videos as have been in the ads for the segment.   Its rather compelling evidence from the lady who has kept a list of sightings for years.  The local authorities have acknowledged the presence of a large predator - and say its possibly a cheetah or panther.   

[nodoubt68]

I wished I'd seen it !!!  Did anyone tape it ? I saw it advertised but forgot it was on...

[lotsakids]

i missed it too

[Salt Breeze]

You can probably find footage of it on the Channel 9 (ACA)website where they have details of their stories.

[nodoubt68]

Good idea SB, thanx :-)

[catseyes]

I thought it was a good interview....no tongue in check questions and 'lets find the village ding=dong to interview's, they took it seriously!  I ope though, that it doesn't disolve into an argument about what cat-type it is.  That really isn't as relavent as the fact that a large feline predator is about.

I wonder if the bush walker that went missing on DomDom 6 months back wasn't taken and eaten.  He was a doctor and a very experienced bush walker, he went missing only about 15 ks from where 'my cat' was sighted.

[Salt Breeze]

You could be right CE.  What's more, some big cats take their prey up trees, so instead of looking on the ground or under it, for the bushwalker, maybe they should cast their eyes upwards.

That point was made on the show last night about the big cat.  A cow was found up a tree, as I recall, which is not the actions of a normal Aussie predator animal.   

[catseyes]

In the '80's the skeletal remains of a missing man was found 20ft up a tree near the Olinda Golf Course.

[Alien88]

There is no doubt about it, we have big cats in the mist of our country.
I have seen a close up of a caught feral cat, with a massive head, but it was not in the same league as the cats in the footage.

[Christine]

Having driven through Olinda recently I can imagine there would be big cats in that area.

ACA are doing a follow up tomorrow night.

ND, I have it taped, I haven't watched it yet though.

[Salt Breeze]

Every night this week on ACA there's been more snippets about this story, with apparently hundreds of people making contact and telling their own stories.