Amazon jaguar shot dead at Olympic torch ceremony

yahoo.com ^ | 6/21/16 | Reuters

[stars & stripes forever]

Was his name Cecil?

[wastoute]

We made a mistake? OMG. I don’t think I have seen any official say this out loud in my life! He is looking for a new job, wanna bet?

[LeoWindhorse]

THese Brazil 2016 Olympics are going to end up being the most screwed up in history . Mark my words

[SES1066]

Tragic case of translation error. The organizers were shouting in Spanish but the jaguar, being from the Amazon, only understood Portuguese!

[Tax-chick]

The jaguar is a nearly threatened species that has already been wiped out in Uruguay and El Salvador, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Sad for the one that was shot, of course, but the damage to the species is underwhelming.

[boycott]

At least they’re off to a good start. Idiots!

[ColdOne]

Yep.....going to be a real screwed up event.

[dainbramaged]

Never work with animals or children - W.C. Fields.

[Drew68]

These Brazil 2016 Olympics are going to end up being the most screwed up in history . Mark my words

I won't take that bet. You're going to be right. They're already a disaster with athletes getting robbed at gunpoint on their way to practice.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Ya, we want to know his name, and was he “beloved” as Cecil the lion was????

I think it’s so funny how the media pushed the Cecil the lion story. They said how he was a beloved symbol of wildlife in Zimbabwe. But afterwards, in talking to people there, Zimbabweans had never heard of Cecil, he was not any sort of symbol or mascot for anything. And people there could not understand the angst about a lion being killed.

[PGR88]

Sounds like a bad omen to me.

[Charles Martel]

What a (continuing) clusterf**k. The cat had a heavy harness on it, connected to several stout chains. The “handlers” must’ve all been asleep.

[Dilbert San Diego]

These 2016 Olympics would have been in Chicago, if Obama had gotten his way. Just some trivia.

I hope and pray the Rio Olympics do not become a disaster. Time will tell.

[SteveH]

i thought they were out of money

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[BlackAdderess]

Poor kitty :(

[LeoWindhorse]

can anyone day PGA = Mex City ?.....

[DesertRhino]

These Brazilian Olympics are gonna be really weird, just watch.

[BlackAdderess]

I have a really bad feeling about these games. There is going to most certainly going to be some terrorist or another targeting this, there’s zika, bacterial infections from the water, political turmoil, economic problems...

[Mears]

“THese Brazil 2016 Olympics are going to end up being the most screwed up in history . “

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Yep-—almost as bad as the Munich tragedy.

This poor animal is an omen of things to come.

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