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Tiger Attacks, Kills Teen Posing For Senior Pictures
AP ^ | 08/18/05

Posted on 08/19/2005 6:47:26 AM PDT by Undertow

Tiger Attacks, Kills Teen Posing For Senior Pictures

POSTED: 6:33 pm EDT August 18, 2005

UPDATED: 6:56 pm EDT August 18, 2005

MOUND VALLEY, Kan. -- A Bengal tiger attacked and killed a teenage girl Thursday at a southeast Kansas animal sanctuary.

Haley Hilderbrand, 17, of Altamont, Kan., was posing with the tiger for her senior high school pictures at the Lost Creek Animal Sanctuary.

A news release from the Labette County Sheriff's Office said the big cat was being restrained by its handler, but it attacked the teenager, anyway.

The 7-year-old tiger was killed.

Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: animalrightslist; animals; hatewhenthathappens; maul; tiger
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To: TheForceOfOne
No, this was a story about a family on a African Safari.

That's a very sad story. I'm kind of glad I didn't find that one. :-/

121 posted on 08/19/2005 11:17:43 AM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: mware
I haven't gone through the whole thread yet but does anyone know if this was a school sanctioned photo shoot???

I think they were doing it on their own. Fox News just showed a photo of "an older sister" with one of the lions taken several years ago. The man who owned the tigers is/was a family friend, and they said he is extremely upset and distraught.

122 posted on 08/19/2005 11:19:50 AM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: spiffy
Hyenas are a particularly dastardly species, in my opinion. Tigers are beautiful creatures.

Yeah, and if you ask me, all of them can just stay in Africa where they feel right at home. When I walk out to sit in my deer stand, I have no desire to be looking over my shoulder. The Africanized Killer Bees are enough to think about as it is!

123 posted on 08/19/2005 11:24:40 AM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: Lady Jag

The Cheetah is my favorite big cat. So much so, I have a tattoo of a 'deco' cheetah on my ankle. These are such noble creatures- and incredible mothers. I love their 'chirp-bark' when calling young.


124 posted on 08/19/2005 11:24:47 AM PDT by rintense
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To: Nita Nupress

Tigers are from Asia. Lions are from Africa. Just wanted to clarify.


125 posted on 08/19/2005 11:25:34 AM PDT by rintense
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To: Nita Nupress
Very sad.

I thought I heard on Fox this morning that she was standing next to the tiger and it licked her foot.

It frightened her and she screamed.

It must have set the tiger off.

126 posted on 08/19/2005 11:28:03 AM PDT by mware (Trollhunter of Note)
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To: freepatriot32

BTTT!!!!!!!


127 posted on 08/19/2005 11:29:44 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: rintense
Tigers are from Asia. Lions are from Africa. Just wanted to clarify.

Oh. I knew that.

 

:-D

128 posted on 08/19/2005 11:32:10 AM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: Truth29

What would I shoot her with? Don't leave yourself open on comments like that.


129 posted on 08/19/2005 11:53:48 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (WHEN JANE FONDA STARTS HER TOUR, LET ME KNOW WHERE SHE IS)
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To: Hand em their arse

I was thinking the same thing.


130 posted on 08/19/2005 11:54:54 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (WHEN JANE FONDA STARTS HER TOUR, LET ME KNOW WHERE SHE IS)
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To: TheForceOfOne
While I was in Korea in 1968 a Tiger (yes there are Tigers in Korea) came into this village near our demo-range. It grabbed one of the children and carried it several miles. They found the child with not a scratch on him. A miracle
131 posted on 08/19/2005 12:01:38 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (WHEN JANE FONDA STARTS HER TOUR, LET ME KNOW WHERE SHE IS)
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To: Undertow; All
Haley R. Hilderbrand, 17, was attacked by the tiger while posing for a photo at an animal sanctuary

AOL broadband video a sorrowful tearful day

132 posted on 08/19/2005 12:06:41 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (Deep within every dilemma is a solution that involves explosives)
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To: tfecw
I won't even do the swimming with dolphins thing.

Dolphins are usually pretty people friendly, but there are more than a few cases of dolphins working pretty hard to drown swimmers and divers.

They can be nasty, unpleasant animals when they feel like it. Like chimps, their public persona often conflicts with their actual disposition.

133 posted on 08/19/2005 12:07:30 PM PDT by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: U S Army EOD

Doesn't make us bad people, right?


134 posted on 08/19/2005 12:10:41 PM PDT by Hand em their arse
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To: rintense
Pretty much all cats are my favorites. I'm a Leo, have four feisty female felines and drive a Jaguar. Not this Jaguar,

135 posted on 08/19/2005 12:12:04 PM PDT by Lady Jag (The Goat-Vendor of Hamelin, and Expounder of Troll Logic)
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To: softwarecreator

AARRGGHHH ... this is what they do...they're supposed to be trained and I'm sure pictures have been taken hundreds of times with this animal. But CRAP happens. Maybe it was her smell.. or the color she was wearing. Who knows. It's a tragedy all around.


136 posted on 08/19/2005 12:14:06 PM PDT by Hildy ("When you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done.")
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To: Hand em their arse

Depends on the local state law and age of consent.


137 posted on 08/19/2005 12:19:05 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (WHEN JANE FONDA STARTS HER TOUR, LET ME KNOW WHERE SHE IS)
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To: spiffy
Hyenas are a particularly dastardly species, in my opinion.

Bad rap. Hyenas are amazing, if bizarre. Stone cold killers, predators as efficient as any of the big cats. Jaws like a hydraulic press. Sort of like a 200lb pitbull, with an attitude.

Scary sounding bastards too.

138 posted on 08/19/2005 12:23:09 PM PDT by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: TheForceOfOne
Good lord how stupid can you be. Dangling a child out of a window with lions about?

"What were they thinking" hardly seems adequate. Apparently they watched "Born Free" one too many times.

139 posted on 08/19/2005 12:26:34 PM PDT by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: Lazamataz

Morons used to be bred, now they are made in public schools.


140 posted on 08/19/2005 12:30:05 PM PDT by razorback-bert
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