Tiger Kills Teenage Girl In Kansas

[Missouri Mule]

When will people learn not to fool around with wild animals? And of course the tiger was killed. A needless tragedy all the way around.
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Tiger Kills Teenage Girl In Kansas
MOUND VALLEY, Kan. Aug. 18, 2005

A Siberian tiger attacked and killed a teenage girl who was posing for a picture at an animal sanctuary Thursday morning, authorities said.

The Labette County Sheriff's office identified the victim as Haley R. Hilderbrand, 17, of Altamont. A release said Hilderbrand was at the Lost Creek Animal Sanctuary posing for a photo with the 7-year-old tiger, which was being restrained by its handler, when the animal turned and attacked her.

Officers and handlers killed the animal. Emergency personnel were not able to revive Hilderbrand, who was later pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators have sent the tiger's body to Kansas State University for dissection.

"This animal had been around people across the country and there's never been a problem," Sheriff William Blundell said in a telephone interview.

Keith Hilderbrand, Haley's uncle, said the family wasn't making any statements at this time...

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/18/national/main787073.shtml

[GI Joe]

When will people learn not to fool around with wild animals?


They will never learn

[Sauniere]

That's why they are "wild" animals. To think you've tamed one is just setting yourself up for a tragedy like this. She was 17, geez...

[nutorious]

How very sad. They should also kill the handler (I'm sorry - "put him down") for allowing her to be anywhere near that animal. The animal was simply doing what nature programmed it to do, and yet they killed it? They could have moved it to a zoo, or somewhere that it would never come in contact with people again. Jeez.

[towski]

Reading the title of this thread, I thought to myself "Self, that crazy golfer is gonna fry!!!"

[nutorious]

Reading the title of this thread, I thought to myself "Self, that crazy golfer is gonna fry!!!"

Maybe if he did it in Alabama... :eek:

[eugene40]

And this was a tame one...;. Don't some people want to introduce lions and tigers and hyenas and whatever into the north american wild.... good plan.

[ScummyD]

A close family member of mine was attacked by a male orangutan and had his hand shredded. His hand no longer functions and looks like somebody took a hammer to it. And after that I was holding orangutans and leading them down to the river for baths at the same place where he was attacked. I would do it again.

[nutorious]

A close family member of mine was attacked by a male orangutan and had his hand shredded. His hand no longer functions and looks like somebody took a hammer to it. And after that I was holding orangutans and leading them down to the river for baths at the same place where he was attacked. I would do it again. Nothing wrong with a person putting himself into that position. Posing other people for cute photo ops is another story.

[ScummyD]

Nothing wrong with a person putting himself into that position. Posing other people for cute photo ops is another story.
Well wait a minute. On one hand, we are supposed to just accept that there is no problem with allowing children to have abortions without parental notification, but posing for pictures is just too damn much, that crosses the line. :rolleyes:

[Ophelia]

I have two spoiled housecats who have been pets all their lives, and even they can be unpredictable at times -- let alone a tiger. At my local zoo, they have a booth at which you can "have a picture taken" with the zoo's animals, including the tigers and lions. You choose from pictures that have already been taken of the animals, and the staff takes pictures of you with a digital camera. They then combine the two, and you have your picture. That's as close as I care to get to the animals unless they are safely in their enclosures.

[Heads_On_Pikes]

I had an experience involving my daughter when she was eight years old at a local fishing/camping/vacation show. After lunching on fried walleye sandwiches we headed over to a display by a local group that works to save wildlife and has long worked to start a zoo in town. They were doing the fundraising "picture with" thing and my daughter decided the white Siberian Tiger cub was the one she wanted her picture with.

She went up on the stage when her turn came and I moved closer to the stage. As she sat, the cub became more and more restless. He was on a heavy leash and there were two handlers. This "cub" probably weighed 80 pounds or better. I finally jumped up on the stage and grabbed my daughter away and these two grown men had their hands more than full trying to control that cat. They suggested to come back later after the cat had eaten and calmed down! "I don't F-in think so pal!"

Never again.

[Sauniere]

Over my carrier I've had close encounters with bears, mountain lions, bobcats, llamas, horses, cows, bulls, buffalo, tapirs, rattlesnakes, scorpions, sharks, barracuda, black widows, bats, dolphins, sea lions, coyotes, etc.

By far the worst were ticks, chiggers, fleas, and mosquitoes.

[Heads_On_Pikes]

Over my carrier I've had close encounters with bears, mountain lions, bobcats, llamas, horses, cows, bulls, buffalo, tapirs, rattlesnakes, scorpions, sharks, barracuda, black widows, bats, dolphins, sea lions, coyotes, etc.

By far the worst were ticks, chiggers, fleas, and mosquitoes.

I have been around animals, wild and domestic, all of my life as well. I have always been very, very good with animals...don't know whether or not to brag about that or not. :D

Never could get into an insect's head either. ;)

[Sauniere]

Never could get into an insect's head either. ;)

I have suffered more at the hands, tails, stingers, mouths, etc. of insects than any other creatures on the planet. I forgot to mention bees and wasps.

[Heathcliff]

Pride goeth before a fall, as with Roy of Siegfried and Roy, the Grizzly man and his girlfriend (who recorded his last meal, during which he was the main course), and the recent case of the man whose colon was punctured by his horse during sex.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/664237/posts

Researcher who claimed sharks won't bite him loses part of leg in attack
Sun-Centinal.com | 04/11/02 | Kellie Patrick

A famous shark researcher who said his knowledge of sharks kept him from being bitten lost part of his leg to one on Wednesday as he led a class on the predators' behavior.

[ScummyD]

and the recent case of the man whose colon was punctured by his horse during sex.
Oh yes, Seattle, where sex with animals is practiced under the guise of enlightened liberality, under the folly of adult consent, and under the absurdity of a "belief in privacy and respect for personal choice," which has become the platitudinous shibboleth of so many on the Left. :rolleyes:

Where perversity is diversity.

And where tolerance has no bounds and you are a bigot if you do not accept the "personal choice" of deviants and degenerates.

[Heathcliff]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Right on! Once the libs get gay marriage, there is no stopping deviated preversions of all kinds.