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Putin flexes his muscles and shoots 'runaway' tiger in display of masculinity ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1051017/Putin-flexes-muscles-shoots-runaway-tiger-display-masculinity-tensions-West-intensify-oil-supply.html ^
Posted on 08/31/2008 3:57:52 PM PDT by traumer
Gordon Brown's tough message to Russia today was overshadowed when Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin shot a runaway tiger, apparently saving the lives of a group of TV journalists.
On the eve of an emergency Brussels summit over the Georgia crisis, Mr Brown said measures need to be taken to prevent further 'Russian aggression'.
But Mr Putin, intent on proving he is not someone to be messed with, turned action man to fire a tranquiliser dart that rendered the escaped animal helpless.
The extraordinary episode happened during a trip to the far east of Siberia in what was clearly a stunt designed to demonstrate his macho credentials to the Russian people as EU leaders prepared to meet for talks.
Accounts from Moscow suggested that ex-president Mr Putin, a former KGB spy and now prime minister, saved a group of TV journalists from attack after the tigress escaped its harness.
What is more likely is that the crew, who were standing just 15ft away, were in place to capture the 'heroic' shot.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: oil; propaganda; putin; russia; tiger
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posted on
08/31/2008 3:57:52 PM PDT
by
traumer
To: traumer
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posted on
08/31/2008 3:58:44 PM PDT
by
traumer
To: traumer
Oh fer cryin’ out loud. What’s next, Putin lifting a bus off of an accident victim?
3
posted on
08/31/2008 4:00:07 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: traumer
Too late Pootie, McCain already has a veep candidate.
To: traumer
I bet Sarahcuda has more kills than this putz... ;)
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:00:30 PM PDT
by
BossLady
(People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. ~Carl Jung)
To: traumer
C’mon Vlad, a real man would have faced the tiger with his bare hands and forced it to submit.
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:01:21 PM PDT
by
Hawk1976
(It is better to die in battle than it is to live as a slave.)
To: BossLady
At least unblindfolded and bound ones. What’s the bag limit at Lubyanka anyway?
To: traumer
The KGB man knows how to make propoganda...cheap, cheasy, and blatant...but propoganda nonetheless.
GEORGIA CONFLICT 2008
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:03:16 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: Tijeras_Slim
LOL! 2-legged or 4-legged?
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:04:27 PM PDT
by
BossLady
(People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. ~Carl Jung)
To: BossLady
And they weren’t staged, either.
To: Jeff Head
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:05:04 PM PDT
by
traumer
To: traumer
What a fake. Does he think the world is stupid? If I were one of those journalists, I’d be pretty ticked off that I was used in such a dangerous PR stunt.
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:06:16 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: traumer
Hey, gee whiz, what are the odds here? Of all the places in the world, of all the animals to get free, it would be a tiger getting free right where Putin has a gun to shoot it down!
Golly...I sure am impressed!
/S
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:06:33 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
To: traumer
No..it was a Siberian tiger he shot.
14
posted on
08/31/2008 4:07:35 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: ConservativeMind
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:08:27 PM PDT
by
BossLady
(People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. ~Carl Jung)
To: Girlene
If I were one of those journalists, Id be pretty ticked off that I was used in such a dangerous PR stunt. Comrade Journalist, the tiger may get you, or it may not. I on the other hand...
To: traumer
I would have the tiger tested for radioactive Polonium-210.
To: traumer
The tiger started it, and it's Bush's fault.
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:16:10 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(The beauty of conservatism, Sarah Palin.)
To: traumer
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posted on
08/31/2008 4:16:34 PM PDT
by
Deetes
( (God Bless the Troops) .)
To: traumer
Damn Poseur!
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