Paducah Sun outdoor writer Steve Vantreese has taken his shot now at the cougar hoaxes which ran wild on the Internet in recent weeks. Read his remarks here if you have a Paducah Sun online subscription.Vantreese, who has long followed the cougar mystery in western Kentucky, wrote, "The photo misrepresentation of west Kentucky cougars is unfortunate fiction atop a long-running debate and consideration of whether there really are some mountain lions in this neck of the woods."
If there are legitimate folks with real cougar tales, those are now relegated to mere myth. Thanks to the wildcat fraud, potentially solid sightings will become as believable as the Easter Bunny. What's even more disheartening is some of the misrepresentation started right here in Crittenden County.
Remember, as an old fellow who used to hang around The Coffee Shop in Marion once told me, "It ain't true until I read it in The Press."
