Posted on 01/11/2010 6:48:35 PM PST by george76
Well, like Timothy Treadwell, he probably desired to become one with the animals. Looks like he got his wish.
You just can’t fix stupid.
Oh that is so sad. The poor poor woman, how horrifying.
Now why did you feel compelled to add that remark? Seems to me that the freedom of stupidity got us a marxist/muslim dictator elected. Freedom doesn’t mean doing any damn thing a person wants to do..it also requires ‘self governing’ and thinking of consequences of actions.
Awww!
(I can’t try that at home. No tiger.)
What he proved is that some days it is easier to fatally annoy a grizzly, than it is on others.
That must be racist - it’s funny.
Maybe I’ll ask Jim Clyborn.
geez, talk about unintended consequences..?
"He had gone in to feed the tiger and possibly had been attacked,"
Possibly? WTF, is the author worried about a lawsuit by the tiger for falsely accusing it of a crime?
Periodically those speculatice looks of "I could eat you if I were bigger" are kind of unnerving.
Oh yeah. Blame the cat. Who’s to say this guy wasn’t murdered and tossed into the tiger’s cage?
Rigid thinking leads to only one conclusion when there are always other possibilities.
Or not. Sigh...
Yes, and freedom also includes suffering the consequences without the state coming in and "fixing" things with OPM.
Wasn’t there some woman up in British Columbia who was fighting for mountain lion habitat or something and wound up being killed and eaten by one? Now that’s gratitude for you.
“Oh yeah. Blame the cat. Who’s to say this guy wasn’t murdered and tossed into the tiger’s cage?”
Bush/Rove did it.
Call Interpol!
LOL! The things we get excited about here...
We had a guy about 10 miles from here build a “tiger-proof” cage, and all the trappings for the tiger he kept on his property. While his tiger never got out, the entire municipality he lived in, and the surrounding townships were all-in-a-dither about the presence of this critter. Even though the guy had all the permits (in Canada, you cannot keep any type of wild animal, period, unless you’ve gone to get legal permission to do so. Keeping a raccoon can get you thrown in jail.) etc. for keeping the tiger, he was eventually forced to move it away from here.
While I personally had no issue with his keeping the beast, I understood his neighbour’s concern, especially since there had been several zoo escapes in the news before and during the tiger fiasco. Had he lived way out in the boonies, the tiger would have been less of an issue, but on Vancouver Island, there really isn’t that far to go before you run out of boonies. Now, if the guy had owned an entire island, with at least two or three miles of water between his domicile and the rest of the world, there would likely been far less hassle, and he’d be tiger food by now...
About the grizzly whisperer:
I must disagree with your premise that the GW managed to learn to communicate with these great beasts. It’s more likely that the grizzlies knew there was something wacko about the dude, and they tolerated him until it was time to lay in that final store of fat for the winter. IOW, the grizzlies “kept him fresh” for a final feeding before hibernation. GW was dessert. His damned foolish GF was the icing.
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