[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Guy smelled like prey.

Might have been a vegetarian?

[rlmorel]

My wife wanted to watch a movie about a female elephant and her herd.

So I did. It had gorgeous cinematography, but its efforts to anthropomorphize the animals was unsettling, to say the least.

I know, it is "just a movie". And the visuals were striking. But the portrayal was something else altogether.

I didn't like that. But I can see a lot of people watching that, and thinking Elephants were the gentlest, most non-offensive creatures there are.

I guess the one about the Grizzly family would have really got me going.

A lot of people didn't care for the movie "Life of Pi", but I enjoyed the visuals enough to buy the 3-D version, which is pretty wild to watch. I understand fully why some don't care for it, but I liked it.

There is a scene in the movie where the young boy wants to make friends with the new tiger (named...Richard Parker") that came into the zoo owned and run by his father.

So he gets into the set up they use to get the tiger out of the cage for vet visits or if they are going to move it, and the boy is separated by prison bars from where the tiger can enter.

The boy gets some chunks of raw meat and when the tiger enters, he grabs a chunk of raw, bloody meat and holds it out, his arm extended between the bars, offering it to the tiger while he speaks gentle words of friendship and good will. The tiger advances slowly, smelling in that weird way cats do, with their mouth partially open.

At that point, the kid's father walks in and sees this, and screams...the tiger snarls and runs at top speed in the opposite direction, bouncing of the narrow walls, and disappears back into the pen.

The dialog went something like this:

FATHER: (screaming) What are you thinking?! Are you out of your mind? Who gave you permission to come back here? You have just ignored everything I have ever taught you

PI: I just wanted to say 'Hello' to him.

FATHER: You think that tiger is your friend. He is an animal, not a playmate!

PI: Animals have souls. I've seen it in their eyes.

FATHER: Animals don't think like we do; people who forget that get themselves killed. That tiger is not your friend. When you look into his eyes, you are seeing your own emotions reflected back at you - nothing else.

At this point, he has an assistant tether a goat to the iron bars with a rope, and when the goat starts bleating, the tiger slowly enters the enclosure, and comes to within maybe 20 or thirty feet then, it covers the distance in the blink of an eye (and faster than any young boy could have ever retracted his arm) and grabs the goat and impossibly pulls it through the bars.

Here is a link to the scene if you have never seen it; it is pretty powerful: Life of Pi Goat Scene

[gov_bean_ counter]

Stupid should hurt.

And I guess in this case it did...

[NativeSon]

He may have wanted a “full-body latte” and ordered the wrong thing.

[Getready]

Hey. Maybe they can get regular Joes to suit up and get full contact versus a semiprofessinal football player...75 bucks per play...or go against a pitcher at 10 bucks a pitch...get more business than mr scalpless earless man.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, I guess he got his money’s worth.

DANG!

[vespa300]

Kind of reminded me of when Scorpio paid some black guy to beat him up so he could Blame Dirty Harry..:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAs1pos3TA

[FLT-bird]

Not a black leopard. What he encountered is a Florida Panther.

Its the same species as a Cougar, Puma or Mountain Lion but in Florida they’re called Florida Panthers. The state brought in some from outside to freshen up the gene pool of them just a few years ago. Getting close to them is an exceptionally bad idea.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Sounds like he got what he paid for.

[metmom]

I guess he got his money’s worth.

[Quickgun]

I knew a local woman who had two of those things. Her and her boyfriend procured deceased chickens from a local egg farm to feed them. I provided a forklift to load their cage onto a trailer to move it. Those cats were NOT friendly. A person would have to be a complete idiot to even think about getting in the cage with them. Don’t know what they ever did with them.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

My daughter has a bad tempered cat. He hisses and snarls at most anyone that comes near him. He’s just a little guy and can’t really hurt anyone - wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the full size version.

[aquila48]

Florida man strikes again!

[Reily]

Florida Man theme needs to be playing ! (Same theme as the 1960s Batman theme!)

[taxcontrol]

Well, I am thinking that he got his money’s worth.

[BiteYourSelf]

Well he got what he paid for 😂.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well he definitely got the full contact.