If you’re in need of a good laugh, this local news channel interview of a Rochester, N.Y. man and his encounter with a what say was a mountain lion is just what you need.

Curtis Jones told 13WHAM in a hilarious clip — during which held a bat for his “protection” — that after he noticed people running last week, he saw exactly what was causing the commotion: a large, wild cat.

“After I see the people run, I just see something big, just walking just right over there, it went right over there I swear, I promise you, it went right over there,” Jones recalled. “And it said, ‘Rawr,’ and I just kept walking. I seen it, seeing me, see it, so in my head I’m like, ‘Nah, I got to go man, I’m out.'” Jones said after the unidentified mammal, who was seen lurking around his neighborhood, he “heard the ‘Rawr,’ I felt the ‘Rawr.’ I know he be pushing, I know that.”

Jones added how the suspected mountain lion “was just walking” and “slithering” during Thursday’s viral interview, declaring how he will “keep this bat right here, man, just in case.” A shelter-in-place was ordered in the area, but it was lifted after authorities couldn’t verify the presence of a wild animal.

“I am going to protect us, I ain’t going to let nothing happen to us, nothing,” Jones said. Police also said they received numerous calls of reported sightings just after midnight Thursday.

“They ain’t find it last night, it’s still out here, it could be out here in one of these bushes or something,” Jones continued. “You know, a mountain lion, it be ‘rawr.’ They be crawling and… serious.” Jones made it crystal clear he is not Jazmine Sullivan, who sung she’s not “scared of lions, and tigers, and bears,” cause he “don’t play with lions, I don’t play with tigers, bears, nothing in the wild, I don’t play with those, I promise you.” If that wasn’t enough, he “don’t even do rollercoasters. I’m good.”

Folks couldn’t help but comment about Jones’ hilarious encounter.

" I seen it see me see it" 🤣

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“I love that guy! He needs to become an investigative journalist and do all the live reporting,” one person on X wrote. A second person added how they “would watch the news if they just let him report every story,” while a third wrote how “Jordan Peele just got an idea for a new character.”

Despite how funny his recollection of events may be, a huge mammal roaming the residential streets of Rochester is rightfully concerning.

The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) told 13WHAM that based on doorbell footage and the measurements taken on-site, the animal in the video does appear to possibly be a cougar– assuming the video wasn’t altered. If it is a cougar, it’s most likely not a wild cat that arrived to the region on its own, but rather an illegal pet, per the DEC, that was previously held captive.