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Knoxville tiger spotted again in Tennessee as search continues: reports
Fox News ^ | 9/11/20 | Peter Aitken

Posted on 09/11/2020 6:19:06 PM PDT by Rebelbase

The hunt for a tiger in Tennessee continues after the tiger was spotted again in Knoxville as of Friday morning, according to reports.

The Knox County Sheriff’s office initially reported a sighting out in the Forks of the River Industrial Park on Wednesday night around 7:30 p.m., leading to a citywide hunt on Thursday. Residents corroborated the report, with one woman reporting to the sheriff’s office that a friend working in the industrial park had seen a tiger hanging around the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters plant, 5 News reported.

A second sighting later placed the tiger near Thorngrove Pike, according to WBIR News. The woman who reported the sighting claimed to have seen the tiger in her backyard.

KCSO immediately issued a be-on-the-lookout (BOLO) notice after the first sighting. According to the transcript of the initial call, the deputy who spotted the tiger reported that it might be a cub.

"You heard right. It's a tiger cub. It might be a TWRA call," the deputy said. "I don't know how to judge the age of the tiger cub, but it's probably around the 4-to-6-month range."

Tiger Haven, a big cat sanctuary in Kingston, Tenn., was involved in the search for the missing big cat, but it remained unclear whether or not that's where the tiger initially escaped from.

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KEYWORDS: escaped; knoxville; tiger
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The tiger was spotted again in SW Knox County which is 20-25 miles from the Great Smokies National Park. I rooting for the tiger!
1 posted on 09/11/2020 6:19:06 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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I am rooting that the tiger will chew up and antifa or blm scum.


2 posted on 09/11/2020 6:23:05 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Rebelbase

If the wait until November 3rd they can see a tiger voting for Joe Biden. There are probably 15 vote harvesters trying to get it registered.


3 posted on 09/11/2020 6:23:36 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: Rebelbase

Leopards are spotted. Tigers are striped.


4 posted on 09/11/2020 6:23:51 PM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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the tiger was spotted again

stripes -- spots -- stripes -- spots...

5 posted on 09/11/2020 6:23:55 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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This is starting to sound like some local legend.
“The Giant Vampire Bats of Cripple Creek Valley”.


6 posted on 09/11/2020 6:25:07 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: alancarp

Yep. That’s why a leopard can’t change his stripes.


7 posted on 09/11/2020 6:25:13 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Plugs/Jugs 2020....Joe/Ho 2020...)
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
in the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Can keep you out of Ken-tuck-eye.
8 posted on 09/11/2020 6:26:06 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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I don’t know anything about the story, but it could be a big Savannah cat.


9 posted on 09/11/2020 6:26:31 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: funfan

I’m hoping he makes it to the Smokies. That will put some adventure in to back country camping.


10 posted on 09/11/2020 6:26:32 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Plugs/Jugs 2020....Joe/Ho 2020...)
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If we put a few of these in Portland, Seattle, etc. we could deal with the BLM/antifa problem.


11 posted on 09/11/2020 6:26:34 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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A Tiger Walks (1964)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058657/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl


12 posted on 09/11/2020 6:28:37 PM PDT by thecodont
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I believe Wyoming has passed legislation allowing the relocation of their surplus Grizzlies population to areas that are not so abundantly blessed.


13 posted on 09/11/2020 6:33:13 PM PDT by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.Â)
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14 posted on 09/11/2020 6:34:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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If you get it to run around a tree fast enough, it will turn into butter.

I read that somewhere as a child.


15 posted on 09/11/2020 6:37:41 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Yep. That’s why a leopard can’t change his stripes.

You mean spots.

I mean Snaps!

16 posted on 09/11/2020 6:38:32 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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I hope no one gets hurt—but I’m rooting for the tiger


17 posted on 09/11/2020 6:39:11 PM PDT by bethelgrad
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Is it talking outside of its neck?


18 posted on 09/11/2020 6:42:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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I read that somewhere as a child.

On the walls of your local Sambo's?

19 posted on 09/11/2020 6:59:12 PM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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Just need a giant sticky trap that looks like a sandbox


20 posted on 09/11/2020 7:00:01 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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