The Black Cat of Scotland

[ste6106]

Beware those North of the border,

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Policeman takes 'big cat' video

[forntida]

I don't think it looks very big. There is a cat in my neighbourhood that is so big all the other cats go round in pairs.

[chroma]

oh hell i was just a mile from there this afternoon collecting crabs for bait.
Right next to the railway line between cardross and helensburgh.

[ste6106]

Did you see owt Chroma??

I agree it doesnt look very big, certainly not panther like is it

[chroma]

didnt see anything cept crabs and ragworms

[davieboy.rfc]

not big enough its an illusion & a trick as ur brain wants to think it is a panther

[chroma]

not big enough its an illusion & a trick as ur brain wants to think it is a panther

Standard Rail Guage is 4' 8.5" (google told me, i didnt know this information off hand, although im sure it will raise a few eyebrows if it comes up in the next pub quiz) so the thing is above 4 foot long,.
I would have guaged size from the sleeper placement but apparently theres no standard for placements (2' and 18" are common apparently however)
It covers 3 over 3 of them so 18"x2 + 10"x3(standard concrete sleeper width) = 66" or 5.5' long.

[Mr Pumpy]

That's hilarious.... its a normal cat ffs.

Whats more interesting is all the heavy breathing, he's only gone to the car to get his camera phone and he sounds like he's gonna keel over.

No wonder the criminals get away, bobbies can't catch em.

[dabossman]

Looks slightly bigger than a normal cat to me.

the paper said it could be a Lynx, which is not too big and smells lovely apparently

[Dreamer]

Well It doesn't worry me at all

We put up with rabbid haggis and clouds of huge midgies that could drink your blood dry in a matter of minutes.

A little kitcat like that doesn't scare us at all

[opsmonkey]

from my experience Scotland is full of pussies

[ste6106]

Big ones?????

[maxi1968]

once dug up a ragworm that could have bitten your arm off.

[wwb]

We have one round here (Ceredigion, Wales) its allways seen around! I have seen it walking up a track in the hills.

[thered]

looked like a black dog to me getting filmed by some pervert who makes dirty phone calls