New (and improved) Mexico

Medical investigators have confirmed that a mountain lion was responsible for the death of a man who had been reported missing.

Relatives of Robert Nawojski, 55, said he liked to bathe and shave on a rock ledge about 60 yards from his home. The state Department of Game and Fish determined the lion attacked Nawojski just below the ledge, dragged his body a short distance and then ate and buried parts of it.

Searchers called the department Thursday night after encountering a mountain lion while searching for Nawojski, whose brother reported him missing earlier that day. The brother said he had last been seen on June 17.

A game officer who spotted the lion shot and wounded it. Game and Fish officers and federal Wildlife Services agents continued searching for the animal Tuesday.

Rick Winslow, a Game and Fish large carnivore biologist, said it's rare for a mountain lion to kill a human. The last reported human killing by a lion in New Mexico was in 1974 when an 8-year-old Arroyo Seco boy was killed by a 47-pound female mountain lion.

***So after reading that...what do you find more strange/amazing: The fact that a mountain lion has killed a human for the first time since 1974? or The fact that this guy liked to bathe and shave on a rock ledge 60 yards from his house?