One of the guys in the area BMW motorcycle club posted this picture to the club email list saying he couldn't confirm it, but the information he had was that this mountain lion was struck and killed on Tennessee Highway 13 about 40 miles west of Nashville, not far from the town of Waverly.
I checked with Snopes.com and found the picture is of a mountain lion that was struck and killed by a pickup truck in Arizona in late 2007. It weighed between 200 and 220 pounds.
That's a considerable relief. I don't like to think of big cats like that stalking people or darting into the path of motorcycles in the Mid-South.
Waverly, Tenn. does have a Lions Club, however.
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