If you were listening to Morning Ireland on RTE this morning then you would have heard about this story.
Basically a girl climbed into the tiger compound and got mauled. It’s not easy to get into the tiger compound
Why would anyone with half a brain climb over several large obstacles to get into a tiger compound?
Of course the tiger in question is an endangered species with only a couple of hundred left alive.
Why would that person think that the tigers wouldn’t maul them?
Why was RTE’s coverage of this so sympathetic to the idiot who climbed into the tiger’s den? (Do tigers have dens, or is that only lions?)
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Unfortunately Michele, she doesn’t qualify for the Darwin award having survived the ordeal!
Bit harsh with the “unfortunately” there Tom. 🙂
Actually the Darwin award has a category for Hono(u)rable Mentions, for those who tried to ‘improve the gene pool’, in the Awards tradition, but did not succeed and are still with us.
Actually I spoke too soon; the rules exclude climbing into zoo cages on the grounds that it is “all too common”. Oh well.
My opinion; she should be fed to the tiger, and her parents, siblings and close relatives. there must be a stupid chromosome in their genetic makeup that humaity obviosly has no need for
Apparently there is talk of putting the tiger down, a siberian tiger, one of the most endangered species on the planet.
The girl is the one that should be put down, Homo-Stupidus are not in any way endangered.
I guess the question has to be asked: is the media leaving anything out? It wouldn’t be the first time they forgot to mention something, like a mental handicap. (Or whatever the current politically correct term is, I can’t keep up.) Of course it goes both ways: if you stick your arm in a tiger cage, should you be classed mentally handicapped? 😉
I see she’s a psychology student – bet her parents/landlord wouldn’t let her have a kitten. Oh, what terrible trauma can result …
I read that she has a job in a chipper – not too stupid to keep her hands out of the deep-fat fryer, eh? I suspect that, like Dublin Zoo, her employers have a policy against getting drunk while you’re there.
Could have been worse – a bit of E & she’d have wanted to hug them, not just pet them. What was her friend thinking anyway?
“Oh, Let’s climb in and pet the tigers – Yes dear, whatever you say?”
Watch out for copy-cat crimes, you tigers …