yet another one of those idiotic situations where one person with his head completely exposed holds off a mob of people armed with automatic weapons and less than 10 feet away because they think he can shoot the hostage after they blow his brains out.
Indeed; the writers need to work a lot harder on at least semi believabilty. I still remember how Shiva was taken down by a bunch of slow moving walkers with a whimper. A real tiger would have left nothing but zombie guts after a few seconds.