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Villagers thought they killed a supernatural shape-shifter. It was an endangered Sumatran tiger.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ^ | 4/6/18 | Lindsey Bever

Posted on 03/06/2018 11:06:14 AM PST by BBell

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It's a supernatural shape-shifter I tell ya!!!


1 posted on 03/06/2018 11:06:15 AM PST by BBell
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2 posted on 03/06/2018 11:08:19 AM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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Stupid villagers. If it were a shape-shifter, it would have shape-shifted into something else before it was killed.


3 posted on 03/06/2018 11:10:02 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Sounds like the tiger wasn’t nearly as “endangered” as the people who had to live around it.


4 posted on 03/06/2018 11:10:26 AM PST by circlecity
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Probably old and toothless.


5 posted on 03/06/2018 11:11:51 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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Yes, we want these people to come here in droves....................


6 posted on 03/06/2018 11:12:12 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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Whoops!


7 posted on 03/06/2018 11:13:32 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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Villagers thought they killed a supernatural shape-shifter. It was an endangered Sumatran tiger.

sure...now it's a tiger.
8 posted on 03/06/2018 11:15:18 AM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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That’s kind of like the same diff anyway... If you live in a third world country where myths, legends and other such phony baloney stuff rules your life.

Its kind of like those people who follow Al Gore as a guru and believe in global warming, but thankfully on a much smaller scale.


9 posted on 03/06/2018 11:15:29 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Best response yet!


10 posted on 03/06/2018 11:18:05 AM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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sure...now it's a tiger.

Yep. And you can be sure it won't be turning into a human form anymore.

11 posted on 03/06/2018 11:18:18 AM PST by Billthedrill
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Its kind of like those people who follow Al Gore as a guru and believe in global warming, but thankfully on a much smaller scale.

Are you implying that Al Gord is on the endangered species list or that he is a shape shifter?

12 posted on 03/06/2018 11:19:57 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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The Left says we need more cultural enrichment like this from the Third World.


13 posted on 03/06/2018 11:28:15 AM PST by sumuam
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The article alludes to big penalties for killing tigers. I expect the shape shifter explanation is just an excuse. There’s also probably the fear that forest officials will just release the animal, in which case the next year or so will be an extremely jumpy experience for people in the area.

Note that Indonesian has strict gun control. Even with a gun, going up against a skilled and strong ambush predator like a tiger, when you’re actually hunting it, is no joke. Even if you had the biggest caliber elephant gun on hand, if you weren’t actively looking for it, the odds are good that it could kill you a split second after you noticed its attack.


14 posted on 03/06/2018 11:31:11 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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From the looks of that photo it doesn’t look like the tiger was very healthy by how thin it was.


15 posted on 03/06/2018 11:34:20 AM PST by sumuam
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Let's see, it had mauled a couple of people and was under someone's house when they tracked it down.

But they were just suppose to let wander around their houses while waiting for the ONE trap that had been set to work.

Sounds like the villagers were the logical ones and the "Natural Resources Conservation Agency" were the loonies.

16 posted on 03/06/2018 11:35:10 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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local news reports say it had mauled at least one or two residents who had followed it to its lair — to determine whether it was a mythological, supernatural being...from the article


Let’s see, it had mauled a couple of people and was under someone’s house when they tracked it down.


I expect to be mauled if I follow a tiger to its lair. Yep, real logical people. Let’s kill a big beast just because we can.


17 posted on 03/06/2018 11:37:44 AM PST by sumuam
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Since Indians in America are permitted to kill protected eagles, why shouldn’t these people be able to fo similar sacrifice without global rebuke?


18 posted on 03/06/2018 11:41:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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Tiger under our house out comes Mr. Mossberg. :-)


19 posted on 03/06/2018 11:52:13 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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you run rings round them logically!


20 posted on 03/06/2018 12:10:14 PM PST by babble-on
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