Cougars Spotted In Wildwood, Easy Jokes Made Up And Down East Coast

Once every few months, someone will spot a cougar in the area. Remember the cougar in Philadelphia in the mid-1990s? He was everywhere! And everyone’s dad’s brother’s friend had seen him!

It’s been a while since the last sighting — late May by our best count — so, naturally, a cougar was spotted in Wildwood recently by a Wilkes-Barre man. (Shown here is said cougar waiting to board the tram car. Hey, the Wildwood boardwalk is long.)

Corey Daly Sr. said he spotted the big cats on the beach, about 80 yards off the boardwalk, in North Wildwood. Officials are unconvinced — the last confirmed cougar sighting in the area was in Delaware in the 1990s, and that was from a drug dealer who kept it as a pet. (But of course.) There’s no word as to how cougars could even get to Wildwood, which is an island. Do you think they took Route 9 or NJ Transit?

That hasn’t stopped the news media from picking it up (as they should, natch) and from everyone who’s heard the story thinking about the joke they’re going to tell at the bar this weekend when the story comes up. But, hey, easy jokes are our steez, man, so let’s do this: Cougars? In Wildwood? Geeze, and Sea Isle seemed so much more likely.

Hunter claims he saw 2 cougars in Wildwood [Inky]
Cougar (slang) [Wikipedia]
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