UA geologist kills rabid bobcat with rock hammer

Rich Thompson, a lecturer in the Geosciences Dept at UA killed a rabid bobcat with his rock hammer last Saturday, after it attacked him and his wife while hiking in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. The story hit the local papers yesterday and today it's all over the world. Katrina Mangin, who is a marine biologist at UA had to fight the bobcat off when it leapt onto her leg and back.

Rabid bobcat attacks hikers outside Tucson;
man uses geologist's hammer to kill it