MT LION GUY

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who knew what was going on? Rochester man?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
What was Kurtis doing at midnight when when there's when
these mountain lion sighting happened.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Now, he was a bat wielding Rochester man describing his
close encounter with serious, serious mountain lion on his block.
And it said, rars what the headline says? I mean,
you know, I mean, man's just trying to live his
life and there's many mount line comes my mind comes.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Local TV caught up with Curtis Chones in Rochester on
the streets wielding a tiny metal bats and.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
All of a sudden, I just see I'm on the
side over here, and I just see people's hunting and
stuff look like it's going on. I ain't know what
was going on, you know. I was like little little loves.
The next thing, I know, I'll just cut walking. I'll
see mad people just I see. After I see the
people wrong, I'll just see some big just walking just

(00:50):
right over here. Right every boy, the boy they went
right over here. I swear I promised him right over there.
They just cut walk. I've seen that, seen me see
it so in my.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Head, how you and man, how did that go? Walk?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I've seen that seen me see it.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, the Mountain Lion see him seeing it.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
He's like, all that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hurt that Ray LeMond song to me in the pocket
and my cut walk.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I've seen that seeing me see it in my head,
I'm like, no, I gotta go, man, I ain't nobody
playing with No, I ain'tbody. They probably don't see that
right now, So I don't know what's going on, but
you gotta keep this bat right here.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm gonna keep this.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Back right here.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
This okay, I'm gonna protect this. I ain't gonna nothing
happen to It's nothing. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
You ever seen anything like that before?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I never seen nothing like that, man. I never seen
nothing like that, only on movie. So that's why I
was like, I was shocked. I ain't know what was
going on.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
For movie punk. That's why I just kept walking because
you know, in them type of situations, we don't really
do good in them type of situation. We just gotta
keep walking and stay.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Focused, get motivation around.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Once you've seen me in my head, I'll just stop breathing.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
This is fantastic. He knows the Mountain Lion in Rochester's
looking at him.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, right, we're looking at him, looking at him.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
How what's he gonna do next?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Stay focused. Once you've seen me in my head, I'll
just stopped breathing. I ain't wanted to get my set.
I ain't wanted to feel my heart beat. I'm like
man doing that, doing that right now. The lookout that
I guess a little bit, a little bit of Look,
I've been more than a nervous side. I'm in the
car now.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
He's stuff outside. Yeah, I meaning he's trying. He's going
from place to.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Place doing his business in the car. Now.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Remember courtesy saw the Mountain Lion. My line saw him.
They met night on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
His card and yeah, very similar.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Got my sister car stuff. I ain't playing no more
of feet fore you know what carry around the bat?
No man kind of questions that leading. I don't care about.
This is my son back. Look, he's four years old.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
He got love.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Anybody to go take a little off the tee or something.
I just I brought this for the interview. You know,
I just want to protect you with me. Man, I
ain't gonna hold the final last night. It's still out here.
It could be all heard one of these bushes or something,
you know, the mountain like wow, crawling and serious.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
She does what she has. He can smell your son.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
You know, talking trying to stay out there, stay out
that lion away. It might have smelled me. No, that's
why I brought this bat might still remember my set.
So I don't want to be on his radar.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
There's so much truth to everything that Curtis said right
there that he could pick up on his scent and
then held onto it and followed him. He's no dummy about.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Like this man.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
It was.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
It was.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
It was. It was just walking slithering like it was
known it was. It was just it was a different
I thought it was difficult. I know it ain't no zoo,
ain't no war, ain't no glassing between us. I know
this is real like any at any moment, it could
come over here and just try. So I just kept pushing.
I just kept walking.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I ain'tbody be playing with no lions.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Play with lions. I don't play with tigers, bears, nothing
with the wild. I don't play with those, Okay.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Curtis Jones a sign mount line in Rochester Saturday, and
he

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Ran outside to play with it.