Exact Moment Furious Bobcat Leapt at Officers Caught on Body Cam During Intense Rescue

To the question “How do you get a bobcat out from the front grille of a car?” Portage County deputies and members of the 🧀Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources demonstrated the answer this week.

Portage County Sheriff Mike Lukas related the tale on his Facebook page, beginning with the call that came in on Tuesday evening.

“Ok this is a first, dispatch gets a caller stating, ‘I have a bobcat in my car’. You can only imagine what everyone was thinking at the time,” he wrote.

Being something different, he wrote, “numerous deputies were curious.”

“So, Deputies Selvey, Stanton and Ashbeck responded to the location to investigate. As you can imagine the shock they were in when and behold there was a bobcat in the vehicle,” he wrote.

The bobcat was not actually inside the passenger area of the car.

According to WSAW-TV, the drama began after the driver of the vehicle said that it sounded as if the car struck something.

Expecting to find a piece of road debris stuck on the car, the driver pulled off to the side of the road to investigate.

What the driver found was not debris, but a bobcat wedged in the space between the bumper and the front grille, which had been damaged by the impact.