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Mauled NY man: I wanted to be one with the tiger
Associated Press ^ | Sept. 22, 2012 | TOM HAYS

Posted on 09/22/2012 11:24:58 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

NEW YORK (AP) -- A man who was mauled by a tiger at the Bronx Zoo is facing arrest after telling investigators he wanted "to be one" with the 400-pound beast, police said Saturday.

David Villalobos also claimed that despite his serious injuries, he was able to pet the tiger before zookeepers came to his rescue, said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bronxzoo; darwinaward; tiger
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1 posted on 09/22/2012 11:25:00 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He almost became one with that tiger, inside its stomach!


2 posted on 09/22/2012 11:26:20 AM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Laugh....if the guy lives, he’s got an automatic case for SSDI or SSI, based on whether the nut job ever had a job that contributed to SS or not. You’re looking at $2500/month for mental and/or physical disability....a tough way to circumvent the process but the gravy train rolls on thereafter...


3 posted on 09/22/2012 11:27:26 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro

Darwin Award ping. :)


4 posted on 09/22/2012 11:27:37 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And that, folks, is the prime product of our fine modern education and indoctrination system.
He thought the Disney movies were documentaries.


5 posted on 09/22/2012 11:27:44 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: EveningStar

He didn’t die,so he can’t get the award.. Honorabel mention though.


6 posted on 09/22/2012 11:28:42 AM PDT by scbison
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“I wanted to be one with the tiger”

Idiot. If they hadn’t of gotten you out of there, after about 24 hours, you would have been a “pile from the tiger”.


7 posted on 09/22/2012 11:29:04 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
At the Bronx Zoo...pussy eats you?
8 posted on 09/22/2012 11:29:13 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD kitty! Mauling is not cool.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sounds like the tiger shared his ‘feelings’.


9 posted on 09/22/2012 11:30:04 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: scbison

I know. :)


10 posted on 09/22/2012 11:30:27 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Attempted Darwin Award anyways


11 posted on 09/22/2012 11:30:45 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
For his next act he can go commune with some grizzly bears.
12 posted on 09/22/2012 11:30:45 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How’s that New Age Spiritualism/Easter Mysticism working out for you?


13 posted on 09/22/2012 11:32:05 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Since his name is Villalobos, maybe he should have tried the wolf pen instead.


14 posted on 09/22/2012 11:35:55 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sorry pal, it can’t happen. Even if you get eaten by the tiger, he will crap you out. You will be one with the pooper scooper, which would probably lend meaning to your existence.


15 posted on 09/22/2012 11:38:30 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The guys is stupid...but how stupid is the zoo for this setup? From the article:

The mauling happened Friday afternoon in the Wild Asia exhibit featuring a train with open sides that takes visitors over the Bronx River and through a forest, where they glide along the top edge of a fence past elephants, deer and a tiger enclosure.

Passengers aren't strapped in on the ride, and Villalobos apparently jumped out of his train car with a leap powerful enough to clear the 16-foot-high perimeter fence.

So they have a train with OPEN sides where passengers AREN'T strapped in? And it goes at least 16 feet in the air...did they think that nobody would ever try to jump from it? How about kids falling to the ground?

16 posted on 09/22/2012 11:42:44 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Free ThinkerNY

liberal mentality much like what thier trying with thier muzzie friends while trying to convince us.


17 posted on 09/22/2012 11:42:47 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Did anyone bother to ask him if he voted for Obama in 08?


18 posted on 09/22/2012 11:46:00 AM PDT by Rappini (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: scbison

“He didn’t die,so he can’t get the award.. Honorabel mention though.”

The Darwin Award does not require the awardee to die, merely be rendered incapable of reproduction. So, if he had lost the family jewels, he would still have been a contender. Usually winners in this category are drunks who absent-mindedly piss on the third rail.


19 posted on 09/22/2012 11:48:47 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

To quote my father - Stupid SHOULD hurt


20 posted on 09/22/2012 11:49:01 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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