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Tiger escapes circus, roams parkway
Newsday ^
| July 31, 2004
Posted on 07/31/2004 1:26:11 PM PDT by sarcasm
A 450-pound tiger that broke free from a circus caused several traffic pileups on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens Saturday when the beast jumped a car.
The tiger apparently broke out of the Cole Bros. circus about two blocks away and sauntered down Myrtle Avenue in Forest Park before wandering onto the parkway, where it apparently jumped on several cars near the avenue on-ramp shortly after noon.
Motorists were reportedly too stunned at the sight to panic, but the panic came when quick-responding police officers surrounded the tiger and apparently kept it at bay while telling everyone else to run.
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posted on
07/31/2004 1:26:13 PM PDT
by
sarcasm
To: sarcasm
The tiger was apparently tranquilized and taken back to the circus, officials said.Apparantly? What the hell does that mean?
So9
To: sarcasm
. . . but the panic came when quick-responding police officers surrounded the tiger and apparently kept it at bay while telling everyone else to run. LOL
To: Servant of the 9
Apparantly? What the hell does that mean?Sandy Berger apparently inadvertantly stuffed docs in his socks.
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posted on
07/31/2004 1:32:16 PM PDT
by
umgud
(speaking strictly as an infidel,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
To: LibWhacker
Did somebody say tiger?
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posted on
07/31/2004 1:33:27 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(.....John Edwards: The political equivalent of breast implants.....)
To: sarcasm
Imagine that!! How weird would that be, sitting in your car, minding your business, and a tiger jumps on it!
To: sarcasm
"A 450-pound tiger that broke free from a circus caused several traffic pileups on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens Saturday when the beast jumped a car."
LOL! Imagine setting in a traffic jam and a 450 lb tiger leaps over your car..
Quick! roll up the windows!
To: No Blue States
hahha
Same thing I was thinking. It would make a traffic jam more exciting at least..
To: No Blue States
Imagine setting in a traffic jam and a 450 lb tiger leaps over your car.. Stop it right now.
To: Lijahsbubbe
that reply was to you.
;o
To: Lijahsbubbe
What if you were on a motorcyle? heheh
To: No Blue States
Quick! roll up the windows! Ya know, this used to be a nice nieghborhood.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I was at a wildlife refuge once and saw an ostrich stick its head in a familys car and bite them.
It had to hurt, because we just rolled our window up in time and I thought its beak would break the glass it was pecking so hard.
To: sarcasm
*snicker*
Big freaking house cat stops traffic, stuns cops.
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posted on
07/31/2004 1:43:26 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Lunatic turtle on the barnyard fence with a fruitcake gun, shouting many squirrels..)
To: No Blue States
I found the article kinda funny, 'cause I grew up in Queens. My sister still lives right off the other end of Forest Park from where this happened, about a mile away. We grew up in "Idlewild", near the airport. When I was about 10 (about 1960) a circus caravan pulled off the Belt Parkway about half a mile from our house, because a truck broke down. They had elephants staked in a vacant lot, kids running around all over the place, a truck with a caged tiger sitting off the side of road. It brings back memories.
Of course, as to "this used to be a nice neighborhood", you could say that about almost anyplace in Queens.
To: No Blue States
Would be funny to see it happen to someone who was high. LOL.
To: EggsAckley
Awwww, cute kitty! (Wouldn't try to pet him at precisely that moment, however!)
To: wysiwyg
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posted on
07/31/2004 1:48:59 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: LibWhacker
Really! And he's just a baby!
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posted on
07/31/2004 1:49:26 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(.....John Edwards: The political equivalent of breast implants.....)
To: sarcasm
"A 450-pound tiger that broke free from a circus caused several traffic pileups on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens Saturday when the beast jumped a car."
If something like this happened to me, I would need a new pair of underwear, pants and an upholstery steam clean job.
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posted on
07/31/2004 1:52:25 PM PDT
by
ChevyZ28
( For I know the thoughts I have for you says the Lord, thoughts of peace, not of evil.. Jer. 29:11)
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