Tiger: No I Didn't.
Posted on 09/16/2004 2:17:54 PM PDT by LouAvul
Roy Horn of the flashy magic act Siegfried and Roy says the tiger that bit him and dragged him across the stage did not attack him.
People magazine's Michael Fleeman, one of the few journalists to interview Roy, tells The Early Showco-anchor Julie Chen: "It's unsettling to listen to him. He said the tiger saved him. Roy has this theory that he was suffering a stroke, some kind of an attack on stage right before, that he tumbled and this spooked or somehow confused the tiger and the tiger just dragged him off the stage, according to script. They went right off stage the same way they did night after night."
Horn's doctors can't comment on the theory because "after he was bitten, he did have a stroke, a massive stroke, and it caused so much damage to his brain and head that they can't tell what happened now," says Fleeman.
Horn's life is now built around his recovery. His speech is slurred, his left arm is almost useless and he can't use his left leg. He spends many painful hours trying to regain use of his limbs and voice. He cannot walk on his own power.
Roy's prognosis is murky. "Typically, he will only progress a little bit more than what he is now. It will require some advances in technology and science - similar to Christopher Reeve. He's waiting for the next breakthrough to help him, and I think that is what Roy is waiting for, too. At the current state of technology, he's probably advance another 10 to 20 percent," says Fleeman.
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And John Wilkes Booth took a bullet for Lincoln.
CBS is not a legitimate news source. :)
Roy, you have taken too many meds.
I suspect the motivation went more like this.
TIGER BRAIN: I'm so bored. This is so lame.
TIGER BRAIN: damn, another flash from the audience, this is so annoying. I'm sick of this crap
*swipe* *chomp* *drag drag drag*
This fantasy is his way of digesting and coping with this attack, the mental trauma and his injuries. No one is going to try and persuade him otherwise.
I wish him well. His show was a memorable experience for many people. God bless him.
Yes, God Bless him... even if he is a complete loon.
Ditto.
The rattlesnake wasn't trying to bite me. It was trying to remove a deer tick that was ready to infect me.
And I have a newly discovered memo that proves it.
Roy is completely off his rocker.
Yup, and the Arab terorists were only trying to warn us about the hazards of tall buildings.
Changing his story from the tiger was spooked by the audience.
This is after the segment showed Roy playing with 400lb tiger like their puppies. No way that Tiger hurt him by trying to pull him off stage. That tiger attacked him.
Can a tiger bite give you Stockholm syndrome?
We'll have to get this story confirmed by a legitimate news source.
http://www.koreus.com/files/200408/pinkey_lechat.html
Actual footage of the attack.
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