Tiger Trouble!
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FourWheelDrift

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92,356 posts

314 months

Monday 2nd January 2006
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Reuters said:

TIGER TROUBLE

Then there was the South African robber who made the mistake last month of taking refuge in an enclosure which turned out to be home to a pair of unimpressed tigers. He had fled into a nearby zoo after security guards heard the screams of a couple he had just mugged in Bloemfontein, about 400 km (250 miles) south-west of Johannesburg. Unsurprisingly, he was mauled to death by the big cats.

The mugger was not the first South African criminal to err in hiding among zoo animals. Max, a 200 kg (440 lb.) gorilla, won fame in 1997 after being wounded by a terrified gunman who jumped a moat into his space in Johannesburg's zoo while fleeing police. Max pinned the fugitive against the wall of his enclosure and guarded him even after being shot until police arrived, making him an instant folk hero in crime-ridden South Africa. Other people don't realise that you shouldn't get between a mother and her offspring -- especially when dealing with the world's largest land mammal.

taken from - http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsChannel.aspx?typ


Darwin must be simply rolling over in his grave in fits of laughter.

Can I just add one thing, "A Tiger........in Africa?"

rich 36

13,739 posts

296 months

Monday 2nd January 2006
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Bill Bailey and the youth opportunties sound recordis spring to mind

'go onnnnn Eugene puk him-with-the-stick,
see if you came mek him reeely ingry'