The recent attack by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo is both shocking and unexpected. Unexpected only because the animals are suppose to be kept well aware from the public not only for the public’s safety, but for the safety of the animals. Having a tiger escape and manage to attack three people, one of them fatally is certainly not unexpected under the circumstance. It is a tragic accident on the part of whoever was responsible for ensuring the tigers were secured in their cages, but a free range tiger does equal death to someone or something.
What really makes my head explode is CNN’s little video feed: “Tiger had history of violent acts”.
The reporter says it “broke free”, then “stalked” victims. “It wasn’t the first time it showed its killer instinct”.
Um... ITS A TIGER!!! All tiger’s do is kill, eat, poop, breed, and sleep. That’s what tigers do, that’s all that tigers do. Why is it a surprise that when a wild carnivore got loose it killed something? Why is the news trying to make it seem as though the tiger was jailed for other crimes, perhaps burglary. Using a spoon, the tiger found a way out of its cage and with cold, calculating precision, stalked (perhaps crank called) and killed some people. “... the first time it showed its killer instinct”... ITS A TIGER!!! Why is it news that it attacks people? Its what they do! That’s why its behind bars, a moat and concertina wire, its a tiger, it will eat people.
Frankly its a shame that the only safe place from poachers and idiots stripping land to build crap is a zoo for these majestic beasts and all other animals in zoos. Its a shame that we can’t ride in a nice tank through some habitat and see things as they should be, instead of a polar bear playing with a fake iceberg in its painted blue water pool. Until we realize that we need to stop using the earth as a construction set and let nature do what nature does best, we’ll just have to take our chances at the zoo, and hope that some other wild beast doesn’t have a spoon.
What really makes my head explode is CNN’s little video feed: “Tiger had history of violent acts”.
The reporter says it “broke free”, then “stalked” victims. “It wasn’t the first time it showed its killer instinct”.
Um... ITS A TIGER!!! All tiger’s do is kill, eat, poop, breed, and sleep. That’s what tigers do, that’s all that tigers do. Why is it a surprise that when a wild carnivore got loose it killed something? Why is the news trying to make it seem as though the tiger was jailed for other crimes, perhaps burglary. Using a spoon, the tiger found a way out of its cage and with cold, calculating precision, stalked (perhaps crank called) and killed some people. “... the first time it showed its killer instinct”... ITS A TIGER!!! Why is it news that it attacks people? Its what they do! That’s why its behind bars, a moat and concertina wire, its a tiger, it will eat people.
Frankly its a shame that the only safe place from poachers and idiots stripping land to build crap is a zoo for these majestic beasts and all other animals in zoos. Its a shame that we can’t ride in a nice tank through some habitat and see things as they should be, instead of a polar bear playing with a fake iceberg in its painted blue water pool. Until we realize that we need to stop using the earth as a construction set and let nature do what nature does best, we’ll just have to take our chances at the zoo, and hope that some other wild beast doesn’t have a spoon.
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