Michael Jackson's tiger dies of lung cancer

AP via YahooNews ^ | June 28, 2012 | SUE MANNING

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thriller, a tiger that belonged to Michael Jackson when the entertainer lived at his Neverland ranch, has died of lung cancer at actress-activist Tippi Hedren's wildlife preserve in California.

The 13-year-old, 375-pound tiger died June 11, Hedren said Wednesday. A necropsy was performed and the tiger was cremated. Staff workers will hold a private service when the ashes are buried in a section of the preserve set aside for animals that die there.

Thriller and her brother Sabu were born on Nov. 20, 1998, and lived with Jackson until May 4, 2006, Hedren said.

When Jackson left Neverland for good, his veterinarian asked Hedren to take the cats at her Shambala Preserve in Acton, about 50 miles north of Los Angeles.

Other Neverland animals, including giraffes, flamingos, orangutans, elephants and dozens of reptiles, were sent to other sanctuaries in other parts of the country.

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In a remotely related story....

"The Daily Caller noted that in President Obama’s best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, the president recalls being fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” the president wrote. “Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths.

He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”"

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/politics-news/obama-ate-dog-meat-as-a-boy.html

[MrB]

[JRios1968]

He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

[edpc]

He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate...

Fairly obvious Obama's also dined on his share of jackass, as well.

[onemiddleamerican]

Too bad that cigarette packs didn't have the new, super scary warnings on them when the tiger took up smoking. He might never have started and never gotten lung cancer from them.

What? He didn't smoke?! Well how did he get lung cancer then?

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[Ezekiel]

Oh no, not the tiger!

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[llevrok]

Moral of this story ?
Never smoke cheap cigars.

[muir_redwoods]

Imagine the second-hand whatever that animal was exposed to living with Jackson and his horde of dysfunctional hangers-on. It’s amazing the poor creature didn’t get hair cancer if such a thing existed.

[onemiddleamerican]

:-) You got me.

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They say Velociraptor meat isn't bad. It's hard to find, but a few stores carry it.

[nothingnew]

I, for one, am heart broken......sheesh, put this in breaking news!

FMCDH(BITS)

[goseminoles]

Funny.. I still have the little black Sambo’s book...

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Never heard of comic relief?

[formosa]

WHO CARES?!!

[Erasmus]

I wonder if Tippi Hedren’s sanctuary accepts birds.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2900373/posts?page=17#17