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Mountain lion breaks into home, gets trapped in bathroom

By Ben Hooper
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Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities summoned to a California home on "reports of a break-in" discovered the culprit, a mountain lion, was locked inside the bathroom of the house.

The Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a home in Sonora "for reports of a break-in" and arrived to find a cougar had wandered into the house through the front door and ended up cornered in a bathroom.

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"Fish and Wildlife were contacted and assisted our deputies in coaxing the mountain lion out of the second story bathroom window," the sheriff's office said. "He did get a stern warning about the break-in before being released."

The sheriff's office said the mountain lion didn't act threateningly toward the home's resident or cause any damage to the home.

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