“It” is a mountain lion: “Jim was talking to me all through this, and he said, ‘I’ve got a pen in my pocket and get the pen and jab him in the eye,’” she said. “So I got the pen and tried to put it in his eye, but it didn’t want to go in as easy as I thought it would.” When the pen bent and became useless, Nell Hamm went back to using the log.
Update: photo!
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