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Posted on 07/11/2005 7:15:19 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
Snow leopards are protected Police in north Pakistan have shot dead a rare snow leopard, blamed for killing six women in the past two weeks. The ageing animal was caught in a trap, with a goat as bait, but was shot when it tried to escape, police in the town of Abbotabad told the BBC.
Fear had spread through the area after the attacks. The last was on Friday.
Abbotabad police chief Feroz Shah said he was sure it was the leopard that had killed the women, all of whom had been gathering firewood in forests.
"It's a huge animal and it came back to the same spot where it killed the last woman," Mr Shah told Reuters.
Snow leopards are protected in Pakistan, but police had been given permission to catch or kill the animal.
As well as traps, large numbers of policemen armed with tranquilisers had been deployed.
Hmmm. I wonder if the Special Forces can use this idea on Osama.
The title made me think there was a man eating a snow leopard & then he got shot. Oh well....
If it weren't for the hyphen in the title, I would have thought a man who was eating a snow leopard was shot :-)
Great minds think alike.
Must have been one hungry man.
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:) I had the same thoughts.
I was thinking they could have just asked him to stop eating it.
Well, I read it as a man was eating snow in a picture of a leopard.... and thought "that's a strange topic for a news story!"
By the way, it was a WOMAN-eating leopard.
lol
So, let me get this straight, some guy sits down to a nice meal of roasted snow leopard, and these savage Paki cops shoot him? This is environmentalism gone wild.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
So, let me get this straight, some guy sits down to a nice meal of roasted snow leopard, and these savage Paki cops shoot him? This is environmentalism gone wild.
Boy was I late on this one.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Can't PETA leave well enough alone!
LoL
Ditto.
There's just so many ways this story could have gone. I think us Freepers came up with the best ones!
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