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Arizona resident stunned to find bobcat hiding in attic 82%

6/4/2026, 4:38:30 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 28 faulty reasoning types, including Overconfidence Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Emotion, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 65.9% saturation with 269 hits. Analysis detected 1,418 faulty-reasoning hits from 408 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 73.2% and a BS Rank of 82% (4,081 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 81.40% of the video peer group.

Residents near Scottsdale and Camelback roads are extra vigilant of their surroundings these days. 
>> I've been hearing things on the roof from time to time. 
>> After Jeff Lowe says his neighbor began hearing strange noises from her attic a few days ago. 
>> So, she heard that around 2:00 in the morning, just kind of laying there in bed staring at the ceiling wondering what it was and uh we came out the very next day, got up on the roof to do our inspection. 
>> An inspection that Werner Swenson with Critter Evictor says had surprising results. 
>> Initially, we thought we were just going to have another roof rat call out here which 
uh it wasn't. And when we got up there, I was like, "Oh, that is a whole hole." 
>> A hole the size of a cantaloupe. 
>> I was able to get the lights down in there and as soon as you got those lights in, you just start to see some glow was back at you. 
>> They were the eyes of a female bobcat, possibly with babies, who made the attic their new home. 
>> If you go up there, you talk to the animal, you're nice and cool about it. 
"Hey, Mr. Bobcat, it's me, Werner Critter Evictors. Everything's okay, 
just checking it out here." They usually stay cool, you know, we show respect for 
them. Arizona is a friendly place. 
Live and let live. But not not next door to me. 
>> Swenson is now in the process of helping the bobcat self-evict from the property. 
>> We don't want to handle the animals if we can all avoid it. 
Trapping is always our last measure. So, what we want to do is we want to put a little bit of pressure. 
Me going up there every single day and her getting to see me, she's going to be like, "Man, this guy's back again. I don't know what his deal is, 
but I don't like it here. I'm going to grab the babies. I'm going to head on out." 
>> Which it seems the feline has already done. 
>> They didn't do anything wrong. They're just looking for a quiet area. I'm just 
going to let them know, "This isn't the house for you. Let's move it on out and we'll get a seal up that hole." 
Confirmation Bias
6.4%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
28.9%
Representativeness Heuristic
12.3%
Hindsight Bias
12.7%
Overconfidence Bias
32.8%
Framing Effect
2.2%
Loss Aversion
3.4%
Status Quo Bias
1.5%
Sunk Cost Effect
5.4%
Optimism Bias
4.2%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
16.4%
Self-Serving Bias
2.7%
Fundamental Attribution Error
15%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
12.5%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
4.4%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
11.3%
False Dilemma
5.4%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
16.7%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
23.3%
Begging the Question
9.1%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
9.8%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
9.3%
Appeal to Nature
13.5%
Composition/Division
6.9%
Anecdotal
65.9%
No True Scotsman
6.4%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
5.1%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
4.2%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

408 words analyzed.

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