more grrrrreeeeaaat news!
This is some news of a different kind. Once in while a short news story gets my attention as being one of the best things to ever happen in the world. Ever. This story is one of those. A MAN WAS FOUND IN A HARLEM APARTMENT WITH A 500LB BENGAL TIGER AND 280LB ALLIGATOR!!! That’s right. The guy lived in his little apartment with 2 of the most dangerous animals in the world, EVER. I love this story. I love that it’s in NYC. I love that the cops had to repel down the side of the building to tranquilize it. You’ve really got to read this story.
In related great news, Roy, of Seigfried and Roy was mauled by one of their tigers during the show and is now in critical condition with his throat ripped out. My roommate asked me last night, “What would make a tiger do such a thing?” My response: What wouldn’t make a tiger do such a thing!!?? That’s what tigers do. They eat large animals all the time! They aren’t meant to be couped up in cages and made to perform in front of crowds, whipped and prodded, and fed dead meat. They can’t like that. No way.So, it’s always just a matter of time before you poke one of these majestic animals one too many times, and he rips your throat out. Now I sincerely hope that Roy turns out OK, but this should be yet another bloody warning to those performers who insist on enslaving dangerous wild animals.
i love this story too. and i applaud the nypd for using their brains and not shooting the animals on first sight, but trying to tranquilize them first. (not like on previous occasions, where the rule was “shoot first, ask later”). as uli told me a sad story from bagdad: soldiers were celebration in the zoo, and one of them was playing with the tiger (probably feeding him something through the fence). the tiger just got a bigger bite – and bit the soldier in the hand. the tiger was still behind the fence, no imminent danger to anybody outside - but the soldiers had nothing else to do than to shot the tiger. great celebration.
Not sure if this is great news, but I think it falls into a similar category. You decide.
Oh yeah, I forgot my log in and my password for your site…
good. that bridge story isn’t ver funny at all. I think you’re cut off.
more grrreeeaattt photos of this awesome tiger story on The Gothamist.
Did NO ONE see this coming to Roy? I didn’t but that’s only because I assumed it was going to happen to Seigfried.
My dad and I just watched a documentary on the Learning Channel on tigers. They took two zoo-born tigers and trained them to hunt. After a couple of face chewing scenes, I was more than convinced that tigers do not need to go anywhere near a casino.
when i heard about this i thought of the simpsons episode where mr. burns builds a casino…
“Inside one of the showrooms, Gunter and Ernst demonstrate their talented albino tiger riding a unicycle. “A round of applause, please, for Anastasia. She loves show-business. So much nicer than the savagery of the jungle, ja?” In a flashback, we see Anastasia sleeping peacefully in Africa. Behind her two men approach in a jeep. “Hey, tiger!” one of
them calls out, “Wake up!” He shoots a tranquilizer dart into her, and she slumps over. The memory angers her sufficiently to attack her owners and tear them to shreds”
my favorite quote from teh harlem tiger came from the guy’s neighbor.
“I think it’s crazy for you to have something like that. This is not upstate.”
I laughed out loud when I read this quote. “It’s not upstate.” is hilarious!! Holy shit, people are dumb.
damn.
californians killed by bear
Not only tigers kill people, bears do it too. A wildlife afficianado and his girlfriend spent the summer in alaska to camp with bears and got mauled. The bear put the leftovers into their “foodstorage” where rangers found them. He refused to carry firearms or ring his campsites with an electric fence as do bear researchers in the area. And he stopped carrying bear spray for self-protection in recent years. Friends said he thought he knew the bears so well he didn’t need it.