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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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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: softwarecreator
Taking a picture with a tiger? What idiot decided this would be a good idea?


21 posted on 08/19/2005 6:57:38 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: darkwing104

While it is very sad that the young woman lost her life, it is also sad that the tiger lost it's life. A tiger is a born furocious killer. Plucking it from it's natural habitat and placing it in captivity will not erase what mother nature intended it for. Killing the tiger was unnecessary. And before anyone says it, I am NOT a liberal animal rights activist!...lol


22 posted on 08/19/2005 6:58:00 AM PDT by American Butterfly
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To: ClearCase_guy
Because humans can co-exist with really vicious predators.

Yeah, I'm getting some piranha fish for the pool this weekend, the kids will love it.

23 posted on 08/19/2005 6:58:04 AM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: Sunshine Sister
What can a person say in such a situation?

"Bad Kitty!"

24 posted on 08/19/2005 6:58:22 AM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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To: Undertow

Idiots just won't learn...


25 posted on 08/19/2005 6:59:47 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: Sunshine Sister
What can a person say in such a situation?

"WHOOPS?"

26 posted on 08/19/2005 7:00:14 AM PDT by Undertow
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To: softwarecreator

Ugh...wild animals are wild animals. I won't even do the swimming with dolphins thing. Those are big evil animals ;)

You might be able to convince me too pose with a tiger cub (actually i think it might be fun). At least when he goes crazy he won't be able to eat me in one gulp or eviscerate me in one "playful" swat.


27 posted on 08/19/2005 7:02:01 AM PDT by tfecw (It's for the children)
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To: American Butterfly
And before anyone says it, I am NOT a liberal animal rights activist!...lol

I wouldn't call you one, it's just plain old common sense.


28 posted on 08/19/2005 7:02:13 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: softwarecreator

yea, whats next sending your daughter who just graduated from HS to Aruba for a week. Then teaching her not to go make out with boys she doesn't know on the beach?


29 posted on 08/19/2005 7:02:18 AM PDT by jern
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To: American Butterfly

"While it is very sad that the young woman lost her life, it is also sad that the tiger lost it's life. A tiger is a born furocious killer. Plucking it from it's natural habitat and placing it in captivity will not erase what mother nature intended it for. Killing the tiger was unnecessary."

I totally agree. That tiger was killed for doing what comes instinctively. People do stupid, risky things and then destroy the animals when they react naturally. You can take the tiger out of the wild, but you cannot take the wild out the tiger. Needless deaths. So sad, all the way around.


30 posted on 08/19/2005 7:03:12 AM PDT by LibSnubber (liberal democrats are domestic terrorists)
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To: Slings and Arrows; scab4faa; Blue Champagne; rockabyebaby; Poser; A Balrog of Morgoth; albee; ...
Sad story but still..

Let me know if you would like on or off the WTF! ping list.

31 posted on 08/19/2005 7:03:21 AM PDT by Xenophobic Alien ("It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.")
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To: Slings and Arrows; scab4faa; Blue Champagne; rockabyebaby; Poser; A Balrog of Morgoth; albee; ...

Oh no! It appears that someone has kidnapped the kitty!

ACK!

32 posted on 08/19/2005 7:05:21 AM PDT by Xenophobic Alien ("It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.")
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To: Xenophobic Alien
I would like on your ping list.

The tiger should not have been killed.

33 posted on 08/19/2005 7:06:36 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush)
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To: Sunshine Sister

Make sure and feed the tiger before you take the pictures.


34 posted on 08/19/2005 7:15:29 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (WHEN JANE FONDA STARTS HER TOUR, LET ME KNOW WHERE SHE IS)
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To: Undertow

Since the tiger was, unjustly I believe too, killed, they should just take the carcass to a taxidermist, have it stuffed, then use it for next years pictures. That makes sense to me.

Taxidermy is cool. Just ask Norman Bates...:)


35 posted on 08/19/2005 7:17:20 AM PDT by fizziwig
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To: American Butterfly

I agree the tiger should not have been killed, however because of the particular tiger's actions, I feel additional pictures with John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Cindy S. and Micheal Moore should have been scheduled.


36 posted on 08/19/2005 7:19:13 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (WHEN JANE FONDA STARTS HER TOUR, LET ME KNOW WHERE SHE IS)
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To: tfecw
You might be able to convince me too pose with a tiger cub (actually i think it might be fun).

I would PAY to be allowed - every time the zoo has a litter, the news crew goes out & they get to play with them & they're just as cute as can be. But those are CUBS. Anybody who plays around with a full grown tiger is nuts. You'd think her folks would have seen at least one of the stories about Siegfred (or was it Roy?) that got all chewed up by a tiger he'd known for years, right there on stage.

37 posted on 08/19/2005 7:21:12 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: Undertow
A lot of people play with tigers and never get eaten.

This one was touch and go for a while:


38 posted on 08/19/2005 7:21:19 AM PDT by Lady Jag (The Goat-Vendor of Hamelin, and Expounder of Troll Logic)
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To: Pondman88

This area of Kansas is in the middle of nowhere, USA. Greta isn't interested as it would pull her away from the lush paradise of Aruba.


39 posted on 08/19/2005 7:22:22 AM PDT by xrp (Fox News: I wonder if Greta will cover Aruba Missing Teen for all eternity?)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

re: tiger should not have been killed.

Amen!


40 posted on 08/19/2005 7:22:41 AM PDT by jwpjr
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