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    Quote Originally Posted by RoyGBiv View Post
    I'd love to read that story if you'd like to share it.
    You can google the San Francisco Zoo Tiger Escape. A female tiger, Tatiana, was taunted by three young fools....until she actually managed to escape her enclosure. Killed one on the spot, then stalked the other through panicking crowds and mauled him. Dozens of cops responded. All the reports of sightings of the tiger were from a far corner of the zoo. Some plainclothes cops went with a zoo employee to get some zoo workers out of a cafe.... and found the cat laying next to the second victim. They jumped out and started waving their arms to attract Tatianas attention. It worked...and she ran towards them. They jumped into the car and shut the doors.....but the window was rolled down. Cats head was in the window when the officer...now in his partner's lap, started shooting. Tiger then backed away, layed down under a Bush, and died. Crazy but true.

    And for my fellow LEOs......you'll appreciate this. That night, someone cuffed a stuffed tiger holding a sign to the bench at the district station covering the Zoo. The sign said "I didn't do it. I've been framed !"

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    Quote Originally Posted by AMC View Post
    You can google the San Francisco Zoo Tiger Escape.
    Wow! I remember reading that story and being incredulous that a handgun round had done the trick. I never heard the details of the cat being in the car. Scary!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AMC View Post
    You can google the San Francisco Zoo Tiger Escape. A female tiger, Tatiana, was taunted by three young fools....until she actually managed to escape her enclosure. Killed one on the spot, then stalked the other through panicking crowds and mauled him. Dozens of cops responded. All the reports of sightings of the tiger were from a far corner of the zoo. Some plainclothes cops went with a zoo employee to get some zoo workers out of a cafe.... and found the cat laying next to the second victim. They jumped out and started waving their arms to attract Tatianas attention. It worked...and she ran towards them. They jumped into the car and shut the doors.....but the window was rolled down. Cats head was in the window when the officer...now in his partner's lap, started shooting. Tiger then backed away, layed down under a Bush, and died. Crazy but true.

    And for my fellow LEOs......you'll appreciate this. That night, someone cuffed a stuffed tiger holding a sign to the bench at the district station covering the Zoo. The sign said "I didn't do it. I've been framed !"
    Stalking the one asshole and ignoring the crowds is normal tiger behavior. In the wild they are known to hold grudges and intentional target particular individuals.

    All three deserved to become Tiger shit.

    They stopped the public feeding of the big cats after that which was a shame as it was very impressive.

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    Just posted my story in the cougar thread.

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    Somehow I suspect all the cops reading this are sympathetic for both the big cat and the cop who had to shoot it and have absolutely no sympathy for the idiots who antagonized the cat.

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    Tatiana was a very angry tiger. Some time before this she had pulled a keepers arm through the bars during a public feeding and ripped half of the ladies arm off. That's actually what ended Feeding time at the Lion House. I was actually there at feeding time the day before that incident with my then 18 month old son. Tatiana scared the hell out of him. She did not take well to captivity. Had it happened the day I was there, I would've emptied a magazine of .40 S&W through the bars at close range....just hoping to make her let go. I was also surprised a .40 did the job. The Specialist Team guys who went in with ACOG sighted CAR-15s thought they had the right tool during the escape, but I would have loaded my shotgun with slug instead. Open sights and BIG lead for that hunt.

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    Tigers and Lions are MUCH harder to put down than mountain lions/cougars/pumas.
    Facts matter...Feelings Can Lie

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    Slight diversion - I had a friend who was a comparative psychologist who did zoo work. She told me of a case she consulted on. Folks were in a game park and driving with the windows down. A cheetah leaped into the back seat, grabbed a kid and took off. Killed the kid. Of course, there was a law suit.

    Second, animals do hold grudges. An elephant had it in for a specific nasty keeper. As the guy walked by the cage, the elephant reached out with its trunk, grabbed the guy's arm and bent it around the bars inside. Then using it's head, it pulped the guy's arm. Nothing much left.

    I went to the zoo with my wife and stopped in front of the gorilla cage and waved to the gorilla. Hi, Gorilla! Well, the gorilla got really pissed off and truly glared at me with hatred. My psych friend told me that waving is the gorilla version of the finger.

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    Before they passed, I was at the SF Zoo with my parents, at feeding time watching a female tiger I'm pretty sure was Tatiana. The tigress paced back and forth, then turned and squirted my mom with tiger pee with surprising distance and accuracy. My dad said, "Hah! That tiger just pissed on you!" Then the tigress nailed him with a second squirt, and I got the last laugh from well out of range. Well, it wasn't the last laugh because both of them smelled really really bad on the drive back to their place.

    Quote Originally Posted by AMC View Post
    Tatiana was a very angry tiger. Some time before this she had pulled a keepers arm through the bars during a public feeding and ripped half of the ladies arm off. That's actually what ended Feeding time at the Lion House. I was actually there at feeding time the day before that incident with my then 18 month old son. Tatiana scared the hell out of him. She did not take well to captivity. Had it happened the day I was there, I would've emptied a magazine of .40 S&W through the bars at close range....just hoping to make her let go. I was also surprised a .40 did the job. The Specialist Team guys who went in with ACOG sighted CAR-15s thought they had the right tool during the escape, but I would have loaded my shotgun with slug instead. Open sights and BIG lead for that hunt.
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    Back to the zoo. The chimps were bored and designed tricks to entertain them. I got a tour behind the cages of the zoo. So what did we see:

    1. One chimp would do a funny dance to attract a crowd. Moms and kids - oh, how cute. Then the chimp would vomit in a neat street line and then slurp it back up to the horror of the crowd.

    2. Other chimp - watch this my friend says. Chimp poops in his hand. Then he does the funny dance to attract the crowd. Then he leaps up and slam dunks the poop on the crowd. Hits the moms, hits the kids in strollers. My friend says they will get around to put a net over the top sometime. Don't know if they did.

    I also saw the orangs start a conversation (so to speak) with a keeper hosing down the walkway outside their cage. While 'talking' to one orang, the other grabs a loop of hose and reels it in to the cage. She unscrews the brass nozzle and starts bashing on their glass window to make a break for it. I've heard on NPR that one orang learned to pick locks with sticks and did the great escape into the under side of the zoo.

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