Hair raising day for folks in Irvine as a 2-year-old male mountain lion ran the streets of Southern Californian city, ending up inside a semiconductor startup office before getting darted and walked out of the building unconscious in a stretcher. Given the size and health of the animal, officials say that the cat will be a candidate for release back into the wild. Let’s hope it doesn’t come back anytime soon. Yikes.

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