*Detroit ping*
Prospective Darwin Award candidate.
Punchline from the old joke. “What do you think he kept slipping on?”
I love tigers.
Perhaps he should have tried a tuna fish sandwich...
Remember this incident...
A female Siberian tiger killed in a hail of police gunfire after fatally mauling a man at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day 2007 likely was provoked into leaping and clawing out of its enclosure, a federal investigator said in documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The tiger named Tatiana killed 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. and injured his friends, brothers Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal, leaving claw marks etched in the asphalt and claw fragments in the bushes outside its pen. Claw marks were also discovered near the top of the enclosure wall, which was lower than federal safety standards dictate, showing that the big cat was able to get enough leverage to pull itself out.
“It appears the tiger was able to jump from the bottom of the dry moat to the top of the wall, and gain enough purchase over the top to pull herself out over the moat wall,” wrote Laurie Gage, a tiger expert who investigated the scene for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which oversees the nation’s zoos.
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“After a kill, I find it interesting the tiger would leave a kill to go after something else unless there were a compelling reason,” Gage wrote. “The tiger passed exhibits with warthogs, which it ignored as it followed (the blood trail?) of the two brothers to the Terrace Cafe outside the dining area.”
I thought that he was traded to the Blue Jays.
Life After People
Don’t know which list you want to ping for this one, maybe new song material also?
A tiger, a bobcat and a wolf walk into an abandoned building...
Saw the video.
Looking for a big kitty!
The tiger was fresh from an Exxon commercial shoot and did not want to be bothered.
DANG!
