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Post by BearClause on Oct 19, 2011 19:16:44 GMT -5
Sheriff: 56 exotic animals escaped from farm near Zanesville; 49 killed by authoritiesAnimal farm owner released the animals, then killed himself www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/10/18/Wild-animals-loose-in-Muskingum-County.htmlQuite a menagerie the guy had. 18 tigers? Mountain lions. African lions. Black bears. Grizzly bears. If I were the deputies trying to put down these animals, I'd be completely freaked out. This makes the Christmas Day tiger escape at the San Francisco Zoo look like nothing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2011 20:14:24 GMT -5
And I'm headed to Ohio next week.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 19, 2011 20:21:56 GMT -5
And I'm headed to Ohio next week. Not the best time to wear this t-shirt.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2011 4:32:43 GMT -5
What a tragedy... 49 animals (some endangered) shot dead by cops. That's the most screwed up thing I've heard lately.
Stupid, trigger-happy, belly-bellied, hick cops... I'm disgusted.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2011 15:47:51 GMT -5
What did you expect the cops to do?? Have these animals just start eating people? With all due respect, the idiot that let them loose is to blame.
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Post by sevb on Oct 21, 2011 16:16:21 GMT -5
Hey look - a bengal tiger eating a domesticated horse... lets watch and wait to see if it attacks anything else while the zoo keepers get here!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2011 16:31:22 GMT -5
Hey look - a bengal tiger eating a domesticated horse... lets watch and wait to see if it attacks anything else while the zoo keepers get here! LOL! I can't believe all these people on the internet jumping all over the police. What are they suppose to do with over 50 wild animals on the loose?
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Post by sevb on Oct 21, 2011 16:38:42 GMT -5
Its horrible that those animals were put down - but the douche bag responsible was at the farm dead by his own hand... No way that any reasonable person, when faced by a grizzly bear, a bengal tiger, a wolf, cougar, or any other wild creature capable of EATING YOU would do less than use deadly force!
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Post by BearClause on Oct 21, 2011 17:57:59 GMT -5
Hey look - a bengal tiger eating a domesticated horse... lets watch and wait to see if it attacks anything else while the zoo keepers get here! Well - I once sat back watching a black bear eating someone's mayo jar in a campground. Of course I tried to make noises, but it didn't care. Someone else tried throwing a rock, and yet another person confronted it but got bluff charged. It frankly wasn't concerned with us as long as it was eating and we didn't bother it. We actually sat back and watched from at least 50 feet, until the cavalry showed up. It knew not to mess with the park ranger and took off immediately. I'm not all that sure about why they shot the black bears. For the most part they're probably the least likely to attack a person. The big cats would be the most dangerous.
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Post by Not Me on Oct 21, 2011 21:32:48 GMT -5
Keep in mind that after he opened the gates and then shot himself, the animals first order of business was to make sure he was dead (trying not to be graphic here).
At least one monkey they can't find - but they think one of the big cats got to it first.
I guess Monkeys and Lions don't get along like they did in The Lion king.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2011 22:23:34 GMT -5
Good Lord. I'm sure we will have felt very comfy with calling the Lions, Tigers & Bears for a "Group" hug while we wait for the zoo keepers to show up. I really don't mind having the "jaws" of life clamp down on my head.....Really?
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 21, 2011 23:49:13 GMT -5
I read one story where the guy was quoted (a while ago, obviously) as saying that he was finding it hard to keep the animals under control after he had come back from prison.
Many parts of this sentence boggled my mind.
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Post by BearClause on Oct 22, 2011 11:37:17 GMT -5
A few years ago my cousin showed me some photos of her trip to one of these exotic animal "sanctuaries". It wasn't this one in Ohio, but some place in California. She and her husband had photos taken next to uncaged and unsecured tigers, lions, and other exotic animals. I think there might have been a perimeter fence, but there was nothing keeping the animals from lashing out at visitors if they were so inclined. I certainly hope that one was better run and financed than this place in Ohio. I remember when the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Reno (later Bally's) had a male lion in the shopping area. You could pay to have your picture taken with it. The word was that it was so heavily sedated during the day that it pretty much couldn't hurt anyone. A lot of the photos I've seen show it looking somewhat dazed with its eyes closed.
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Post by sevb on Oct 22, 2011 12:08:10 GMT -5
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Post by m on Oct 23, 2011 7:28:21 GMT -5
A few years ago my cousin showed me some photos of her trip to one of these exotic animal "sanctuaries". It wasn't this one in Ohio, but some place in California. She and her husband had photos taken next to uncaged and unsecured tigers, lions, and other exotic animals. I think there might have been a perimeter fence, but there was nothing keeping the animals from lashing out at visitors if they were so inclined. I remember going to Magic Mountain when I was a child and the amusement park had a petting zoo. There were Billy Goats and Sheep running in this fenced area. On one side of the enclosure was a caged Wolf. In the back area of the enclosure, there was a short wooden fence with an unlocked gate where people could enter and take photos with a male Lion that was in that particular section of this petting zoo. The worker there said the Lion was an old Lion and was tamed enough to allow people to take pictures with it. But this was years ago, though.
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