Celebrity Mountain Lion Captivates LA Before Quickly Vanishing

Celebrity Mountain Lion Captivates LA Before Quickly Vanishing: Celebrity mountain lion P-22 transformed a wealthy hillside neighborhood into a paparazzi-like scene of scrambling photographers after being discovered hiding in a crawl space of a Hollywood Hills home by a workman installing in a new security system. The cat eventually eluded everyone during the night and quietly slipped away.

And who can blame him for sneaking away? He was probably really creeped-out being so close to where people like Gary Busey, Justin Bieber and the Kardashians hang out.

Animal control officers point out that normally, all you need to do to get a cougar to come out of hiding is simply have a really-buffed 23-year-old fitness trainer drop by, but that won’t work here because this a completely different breed of cat. Wonder if anyone considered using a laser pointer?

Anyway, neighbors were assured that the big cat will be just fine and now that he’s free, he’ll be back stalking joggers and bicyclists again in no time at all. On a positive note, with a huge, 150-pound mountain lion roaming the neighborhood, this guy probably won’t need to have to pay to have a security system put in anymore.