Well if you have a year and a half of your life to spare and the resources of National Geographic to back you, then you can get an iconic urban puma photo (if you are lucky). Here is how to do it... The Secret Life of L.A.'s Wildlife in Pictures - Los Angeles Magazine
Or if you do not want to go to all that trouble, just buy a home next to Griffith Park and wait for the mountain lion to rest under your porch. Famed P-22 mountain lion found under Los Feliz home, officials say - LA Times
They pelted him with tennis balls and bean bags? I shudder to think what they would've done had P-22 decided to lash out or attack. "Although we didn't want to, we felt we needed to protect ourselves and this was the only option." No, numbnuts. The only option would be to not put yourself in the position of upsetting the cat where HE felt HE had no choise but to lash out. Fortunately it turned out well this time.