tiger, tiger, burning bright

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:03pm

so did ya hear the one about the tiger in san fran that somehow escaped it's enclosure and mauled 3 people, killing one of them?

i kept hearing the story over and over again on am news radio on the way back to ny yesterday and reading about it today the one thing i don't see is the fact that the police chief, heather fong, basically accused the men of provoking the tiger. i thought, "well, hot diggity dog! the next time i decide kill someone, i'll make sure that they 'provoke' me first."

but since they killed the tiger, i guess it's kinda useless.
in the fortress of the night

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:06pm

Papa, I'm not sure who pisses me off more: The people speculating if the Tiger was "Provoked" or the women I saw on the news yesterday crying that "Zoos should be safe! Why does this happen all the time?"

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:09pm

yeah, i laughed so loud people came to check on me when i saw the ny times headline: "could it happen here?"

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:10pm

Nitpicky: If you're gonna quote the William Blake poem, it's "Tyger, tyger, burning bright." With a Y.

And you can't compare a human being killing someone and a tiger killing someone after being provoked. There's a huge logical jump there.

Updated On: 12/27/07 at 04:10 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:12pm

If you can't taunt zoo animals in complete safety, why in the world would anyone visit zoos?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:13pm

no. it's san fran. there's no logical leap at all.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:14pm

exactly, joe. which is why my suit against the cleveland zoo for not allowing me to pelt the baboons with my feces is still working its way through the court system.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:16pm

Whenever I go to the zoo and see those pits separating the beasts from us I wonder 'what if the designer was a maniac who intentionally made the pits too short so one day he could blow a whistle that only the animals would hear and they'd leap across the unsafe pits and attack us all.'

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:18pm

papa: That's just silly, I'm sure the baboons were in fact rather appreciative of your friendly gesture.

popa: Thanks, now I have to go to school to be an architect so I can somehow design a zoo just like that. You have changed the course of my life. I am forever indebted to you.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:19pm

I think it would only have been "Tyger with a 'Y'" if the San Francisco cat had been a male.

Updated On: 12/27/07 at 04:19 PM

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:22pm

Maybe the tiger was provoked. They found one of the guys' shoes in the enclosure and have hypothesized that one of them dangled their leg into the pit. I'm not saying that definitely happened, but I think there's a possibility. And people have done stupid s**t like that before. When I was a kid, I remember two dumbass guys sneaking into the polar bear tank at a NY zoo after dark to "swim" with them. I think they both were killed.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:24pm

this was not the first time she'd tasted blood.
blood thirsty striped beast mauls again

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:28pm

Wooo--oah here she comes, watch out boy, she'll chew you up...

Updated On: 12/27/07 at 04:28 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:44pm

you have no business knowing that song. i demand that you repress it.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:51pm

I didn't say that it was a *good* song, but it seems the obvious choice for this situation.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:54pm

All I can say is I hope Congress finally gets of their asses and ban firearms!

Oh wait, that doesn't apply here at all.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:54pm

i would have gone with eye of the tiger.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:56pm

Oh yes, because Survivor is an artist to rival the greats, I forgot.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:57pm

[tazber]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:57pm

ever wonder why his nose is blue?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 4:59pm

rimming corpses, taz.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 5:00pm

I was gonna say smurfs, but whatever.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 5:02pm

smurfs don't surf.

[Color and Light]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 5:39pm

And I here I thought that this would be a discussion about William Blake. Do we start a thread titled "Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?" when we start hearing about rampant sheep at a pumpkin patch in Peoria?

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 12/27/07 at 5:44pm

If tha'ts the statement you want to make, yeah, sure.

Though I still contend that the title of this thread is not a correct cultural reference because of the Y.