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Read previewFive female cyclists fought off a male cougar in the Pacific Northwest wilderness for 45 minutes, KUOW reports. Five women cyclists in their 50s to 60s had embarked on a ride at the Tokul Creek trail, east of Seattle. Advertisement"Looking to my right, I saw the cougar's face," Bergere told KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, Seattle's NPR news station. Falling into a shallow ditch with the cougar, Bergere thought her "teeth were coming loose" and could feel her "bones crushing." "These ladies are not big, and they were killing this cougar," Bergere said.
Persons: , Keri Bergere, Bergere, KUOW, Thomas Barwick, Annie Bilotta, Jeff Sikich, Tietz Organizations: Service, Business, KUOW Puget Sound Public, NPR, Fish & Wildlife Police, National Parks Service, Reuters Cougars, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, Department Locations: Pacific, Washington, Seattle, Santa Susana, Southern California
There are "continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure," the agency warned last February, "as a means to create chaos and advance ideological goals." Law enforcement and utility companies, though, say they're working to resolve the open cases and prevent future attacks. Members of accelerationist groups have been charged with several plots in recent years to attack critical infrastructure. "The critical infrastructure element has become one of the core components of neo-fascist accelerationist movements in the US. "They don't really care who is doing the violence, who's doing the critical infrastructure attacks, Lewis said.
Three electricity substations in the Tacoma, Washington, area were attacked Sunday, leaving an as many as 14,000 customers affected, authorities said. The agency estimated the number of homes and businesses affected by the attacks was 14,000 at one point Sunday. In a statement, TPU said, "Two of our substations were deliberately targeted by physical attacks." On Dec. 3, vandals attacked two Duke Energy substations in Moore County, North Carolina, leaving 45,000 customers in the dark for more than three days straight, officials said. Investigators probing the North Carolina attacks were looking at online conspiracy theories to determine whether any played a role, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News earlier this month.
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