Breaking News- Roy critically injured in Tiger attack

[CurtSibling]

Was the tiger shot afterwards?

 

[cgannon64]

And now Siegfried is cackling evilly, knowing it is his time to shine.

Watch, when Roy comes back, he will find the show has moved on without him, and Siegfried has replaced all of his parts.

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by cgannon64

and Siegfried has replaced all of his parts.

The parts that the tiger ripped off?

 

[RedWolf]

Originally posted by Civrules
Some people still cannot realize that tigers are totally not like wolves. What I mean is that if you take a wolf puppy and it grows up with you, it becomes almost as domesticated as our dogs. Not so with tigers and other wild cats. It was an amazing experience for me to see a real tiger cub five feet in front of me a few months ago. When you observe its actions you realize that they are not so soft and cute on the inside as many would think. They behave just like grown tigers, serious and wild.

Yousee this even with domesticated cats compared to dogs. My parents have a house cat that gets to go outside on a leash when they're outside.

If she sees a bird or a squirrel in the yard she goes into hunter killer mode - body tensing, crouching and creeping towards the prey - using the natural and man made cover to conceal her presense. This cat has NEVER in it's life killed another animal of any kind yet despite this her body, senses and reflexes are still completely tuned for the art of killing. Wild.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Ive often wondered if I was somehow shrunk to the size of a mouse, if my cat would recognize me and not try to eat me.

 

[mayakovsky]

Good! He will get no sympathy from me. As far as I'm concerned he got what he deserved for caging a wild beast. I really have no pity for people who get hurt messing with animals. Tigers, bears, bulls, mustangs and any other captured animals have my full blessing to mangle and maul their 'trainers'. Good day.

 

[polymath]

There is no way I would ever be in the proximity of any dangerous animal like that without a total safeguard. That whole 'Hey look at me with a Tiger' thing is so foolish. Those guys are idiots.

I don't think whatsisface got what he deserved necessarily, but I do think he got what I would expect him to get, which is 'chewed up'. It's not rocket science. Wild animal + posturing pranny = chewed up posturing pranny.

 

[anarres]

Hail to the Tiger, baby!

 

[Smaasnekje]

is roy dead yet?

 

[polymath]

Looks like he will survive at the moment...he lost loads of blood though.

 

[SSG Paul]

Originally posted by Turner_727


Do you watch his show? He get's bitten all the time. I'm just waiting for a croc to eat him. But they probably woudn't show that. . .

Hmmm. maybe they could make a Faces of death, Part IV.

 

[thestonesfan]

This just goes to show you that the only reason your cat won't eat you is that it's not big enough. So DP, I wouldn't step into an shrink-rays any time soon.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

I dont know, the furbags pretty smart. Maybe Id be more in danger of her trying to jump in my lap when Im mouse sized than her actually trying to bite my head off or something. Id just have to rememebr: whatever you do, DONT run. Then she'd go into tiger mode and start batting me around like a rag doll. See? I got it all figured out just in case I get shrunk

 

[Superevie]

It's so sad what happened. I heard the Roy was just dragged off stage like a ragdoll by the tiger. Although, you know going into taming them that they are probably going to want to eat you at some point. They are wild animals and will always be unpredictible. It's just a shame that Siegfried and Roy have to find this out the hard way.

 

[polymath]

Exactly, Superevie!

The tiger feeders at Howlett's (sp?) zoo in Kent are occasionally eaten, either in whole or in part. Getting that close to them is not a thing I would ever contemplate.

 

[anarres]

Originally posted by Superevie
It's just a shame that Siegfried and Roy have to find this out the hard way.

At least the handler had a say in the mattter. I find it more of a shame the tiger found the only way to assert itself was to attack a handler. I guess the tiger isn't that important to most people (not aimed at you Superevie, just 90% of the world).

Why does any country allow exotic animals to be caged and "trained" in this way? In the UK over half the counties have banned circus' with live animals - I eagerly look forward to the day all "democatic" and "free" socities make the caging and abuse of wild animals a crime.

 

[Superevie]

Originally posted by polymath
Exactly, Superevie!

The tiger feeders at Howlett's (sp?) zoo in Kent are occasionally eaten, either in whole or in part. Getting that close to them is not a thing I would ever contemplate.

Thanks, polymath.

Roy got so accustomed to these wild animals that he wasn't as careful anymore. I think what happened was he was trying to get the tiger to lie down and it wouldn't so he tapped it on the head with his microphone. He probably had done it a million times but that day the tiger didn't want to take it anymore. The audience even thought it was part of the show for second, until it starting getting ugly. I would never get that close to a tiger not even for all the money in the world. Maybe I'd hold the tiny infant ones that barely have any teeth, but that would be it.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

If a gay tiger broke into my house, knocked me out with a tranquiliser dart, hauled me out to the jungle and kept me in a cage for years trying to teach me tricks to amuse other tigers, hell, Id probably get fed up and try to bite the bastard too. No pity for Roy.

 

[Superevie]

Originally posted by Dumb pothead
If a gay tiger broke into my house, knocked me out with a tranquiliser dart, hauled me out to the jungle and kept me in a cage for years trying to teach me tricks to amuse other tigers, hell, Id probably get fed up and try to bite the bastard too. No pity for Roy.

Nicely said....

Well, I mean you have to have some pity for him because this wasn't just a little nip on the hand. Roy could still die. He is still on a respirator. I feel kinda bad for Siegfried too.

 

[Rout]

Tigers bite things at the neck to kill them and then eat them, its what they do. I dont care how well trained it is - its still a 2 meter long killing machine. Beautiful and endangered too- we should have more respect for these creatures rather than capturing them and training them to perform stunts.

Still feel sorry for the bloke but the case is definately a Darwin candidate.