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Women Comes Face to Face With Escaped Circus Tiger in Bathroom
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| Tuesday 23 Apr 2013
Posted on 04/23/2013 3:50:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An audience member at a circus who popped to the loo found herself sharing the bathroom with an escaped tiger.
Jenna Krehbiel came face to face with the big cat when she took her three-year-old daughter to the toilet during a show by the Isis Shrine Circus in Kansas.
The tiger had performed in the show but slipped off after its turn in the limelight at the Bicentennial Center venue in the city of Salina and wandered into the women’s toilets while staff blocked exits.
Ms Krehbiel walked in to find the door was not blocked and the tiger was stood just 60cm (2ft) from her.
‘I turned around calmly and walked back toward the door. Someone opened the door and said get out,’ she told the Salina Journal.
The tiger ‘wasn’t the biggest one performing’ but was still weighed about 113kg (250lb), she added.
‘It was the closest I have ever been to a tiger not in its cage. You don’t expect to go in a bathroom door, have it shut behind you and see a tiger walking toward you,’ Ms Krehbiel said.
The tiger was captured within minutes and returned to its enclosure on Saturday.
Ms Krehbiel said she didn’t scream or run because she is trained to stay calm in her job as a social worker but her daughter had a different reaction.
‘My daughter wanted to know if it had washed its hands,’ she explained. ‘That was her only concern. I think that shows the thoughts of children and that they wouldn’t have known there was danger.’
Chris Bird, manager at the Bicentennial Center, said the bathroom was only about 7.5m (25ft) long.
‘Once she saw the tiger, I’m sure she knew to go the other way,’ he added. ‘Overall, it was a scary, surreal moment. I am glad no one was hurt or injured.’
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To: billorites
Beautiful and terrifying.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/23/2013 4:57:14 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: nickcarraway
Nice kitty ... Nice kitty ...
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posted on
04/23/2013 6:00:45 PM PDT
by
pierrem15
(Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
To: nickcarraway
Reminds me of when I encountered an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know!
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posted on
04/23/2013 6:05:02 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: nickcarraway
At least it wasn’t a spider.
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posted on
04/23/2013 6:07:46 PM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(God Bless America)
To: nickcarraway; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Daffynition
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.
To: nickcarraway
I didn’t know tigers used the bathroom.
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posted on
04/23/2013 6:11:45 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: mikrofon
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posted on
04/23/2013 6:15:20 PM PDT
by
advertising guy
(clearly, semi automatic high capacity pressure cookers should be banned)
To: nickcarraway; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; yorkie; All
Lol, I came face to face with a Tiger when I was in college. I was sitting on some steps waiting for someone when a Tiger came around the cement wall right at me! Luckily it was a Frat Mascot and they jerked it back. It was startling.....
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posted on
04/23/2013 6:36:07 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(~be content with small victories and simple pleasures~)
To: a fool in paradise
Did the pajamas fit the Tiger?
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posted on
04/23/2013 6:37:29 PM PDT
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potlatch
(~be content with small victories and simple pleasures~)
To: potlatch; Revolting cat!
I just looked out in my garage. There's a tiger in my tank!
To: Inyo-Mono
“She came through the bathroom window,” The Beatles said.
To: a fool in paradise
There's a tiger in my tank! LOL, naaa, that's just Tiger Woods and Bama fooling around...
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posted on
04/23/2013 6:55:07 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(~be content with small victories and simple pleasures~)
To: billorites
To: potlatch
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posted on
04/24/2013 6:47:54 AM PDT
by
yorkie
To: nickcarraway
Well, perhaps not lions or tigers or bears specifically, but in her line of work she may come up against some feral male or female Homo sapiens.
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posted on
04/24/2013 7:15:26 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: nickcarraway
‘My daughter wanted to know if it had washed its hands,’ she explained. Tigers have hands?
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posted on
04/24/2013 7:28:01 AM PDT
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Nea Wood
(When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
To: yorkie
See.......he knows I ate my Frosted Flakes this morning! Lol.
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posted on
04/24/2013 12:48:49 PM PDT
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potlatch
(~be content with small victories and simple pleasures~)
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