Mountain lion crashes through California woman's window, lands on her bed

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The crash of fireworks didn't rouse a California woman from sleep on July 4; however, the crash of a mountain lion hopping through her apartment window did.

Upon breaking through the window, the cat landed atop the woman slumbering in her bed.

"She said she though she was dreaming, it didn't seem real," Francis Muniz, manager of the Colusa apartment building, told Fox News. Muniz said the dazed woman simply opened her back door and the "bleeding and disoriented" animal scurried outside.

Surveillance footage, obtained by United Press International, revealed the cougar's wild Fourth of July spree. Before his late-night bedroom intrusion, the footage shows the lion dashing in front of a pickup truck and crashing through the door of a nearby bowling alley.

Wildlife officials told Fox the mountain lion could have mistaken the window for a cave entrance or been spooked by its reflection in the glass.

The city has had mountain lions on its mind for some time now, County Fish and Game commissioner John Troughton revealed to the Colusa County Sun Herald.

"I've been concerned about it for awhile considering how many we've seen in the Butte Creek area. I figured they'd eventually get to town – one did," Troughton told the paper, adding that locals should avoid walking near the city's levees after dark.

Mountain lions typically avoid humans, but as urbanity sprawls, the lions might be forced to seek out new habitats.

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