Huge(400 lb)Tiger Removed From New York Apartment!!

Khaleez Times Online | 10/05/03

[WestCoastGal]

Khaleej Times Online >> News >> THE WORLD Police remove 180-kilo tiger from New York apartment (AFP)

5 October 2003

NEW YORK - Police removed a 180-kilogram (400-pound) tiger from a New York apartment in a commando-style operation on Saturday, a day after a tiger attacked a Las Vegas entertainer in the midst of a stage show.

Authorities investigated the home, in a public housing complex in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, after a man checked into a nearby hospital seeking treatment for bite wounds he said came from a pit bull, officials said.

But doctors determined the bites could not have come from a dog, prompting the man, identified as Antoine Yates, 37, to leave the hospital abruptly, yanking an IV out of his arm, police said.

Meanwhile, police and animal control officers drilled a hole in the door of the apartment and spotted the tiger inside. An animal control officer abseiled down the outside of the building with a tranquilizer gun and shot the tiger through an apartment window.

“I saw him eye to eye, to say the least,” said Emergency Service Unit cop Martin Duffy. “He charged twice and I shot him. He charged a last time and broke through the glass.”

Police removed the tranquilized animal, bound to a stretcher, about a half hour later. It was to be transported to a wildlife preserve in Ohio on Sunday after spending the night in an animal shelter.

A three-foot cayman alligator was also removed from the five-bedroom apartment.

A second tiger, some cubs, two Rottweilers, rabbits and a tarantula also lived in the apartment, until some family members, including children, moved to Philadelphia in June, taking the animals with them, neighbors said.

The menagerie had been an open secret in the housing complex but animal control officers had not responded to resident’s complaints.

Yates was identified as the owner of the animal and apprehended at a hospital near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police said.

“He just has a love for animals,” said his sister, Cynthia Yates. “There’s nothing wrong with that.”

Illusionist Roy Horn, the other half of the famed “Siegfried and Roy” entertainment duo, was fighting for his life Saturday after being savagely mauled by a tiger during a Las Vegas stage show.

The German-born entertainer, famed for his daring shows starring wild animals, was bitten in the throat by a rare white Bengal tiger during the duo’s 13-year-old show at Las Vegas’s MGM Mirage Hotel late Friday.

[SamAdams76]

An "underground railroad" for zoo animals!

[Imal]

Time to ban assault tigers.

[Calpernia]

tiger ping

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[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

A 400lb Tiger in NY? Hobbes, a relative of yours?

[Lijahsbubbe]

If he can afford all those animals, he doesn't need to be sucking money off of tax payers by using public housing. Too much time on his hands. Get a job.

[sheik yerbouty]

Are these people part of the lunatic group MOVE in Philadelphia?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

In the 100 block hoods, many characters help Jonathan in robbin'.

Tigger got the dart last night.
Kanga and Rue hopped the subway train.
Rabbit and Gopher are holed-up.
Eeyor signed up with the DNC.
When confronted by the press, Winnie poo pooed everything.

[EggsAckley]

Authorities investigated the home, in a PUBLIC HOUSING complex in New York’s Harlem neighborhood

A three-foot cayman alligator was also removed from the five-bedroom apartment. A second tiger, some cubs, two Rottweilers, rabbits and a tarantula also lived in the apartment

public housing

[boris]

Gee, yesterday it was 350 lb. 50 lb in one day...

[Libertina]

The menagerie had been an open secret in the housing complex but animal control officers had not responded to resident’s complaints.
I don't know what we pay these people for, they respond so seldom. You'd think report of a tiger might budge them just a tiny bit.

[Dan Evans]

I've got a sneaky suspicion about what those rabbits were for.

[Bubba_Leroy]

If I lived somewhere with gun control like NY, I'd want to keep a tiger in my house too. I'll bet he never got robbed.

[txdoda]

PUBLIC HOUSING/with FIVE BEDROOMS !!!!!!!


Another example of our "tax-dollars at work"....gee, ya think he also gets a wrlfare check to help feed this *pet* ???

Any TAXPAYER out there care to *share* their morgage/rent cost per mo. on FIVE bedrooms, in NYC ???

I'm *lucky* to be paying my bills/taxes on my THREE bedroom castle.

[WestCoastGal]

Yep we're all paying for that.

I wonder if anyone in New York is brave enough to investigate this. You know PC and all that.

[ChicagoHebrew]

Doubt it... MOVE don't exist no more, thanks to an uncarefully orchestrated bombing campaign

[Eaker]

Weird story ping....

[joesnuffy]

Authorities investigated the home, in a public housing complex in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, after a man checked into a nearby hospital seeking treatment for bite wounds he said came from a pit bull, officials said.

When all else fails...blame a poor Pit Bull... Probably would have been better believed if he told the cops Hillary attacked him...after he called her a fat slop

[joesnuffy]

Probably feeding it steaks and roasts bought with Dept of Ag food stamps ;)