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[unixronin]

yndy found this ... seems some 17-year-old chiXX0r in Kansas decided she couldn't possibly have some mere ordinary photo for her yearbook senior photo, she had to pose with a tiger at a wildlife sanctuary.  Despite being "restrained" by its handler, the tiger killed her, whereupon the local sheriff's department killed the tiger for, well, basically for being a tiger, when you really come down to it.

IMHO, they should have let the tiger live -- it was just being a tiger, for crissakes -- and executed the parents instead for approving this stupid stunt.  Charge them with conspiracy to arrange the death of their daughter or something.

....Well, OK, so I'm not entirely serious about executing the parents.  But this was both (a) not the tiger's fault, and (b) a Really Fucking Stupid Idea.  You'd think at the very least, they'd have called the whole thing off as soon as it became apparent the handler was having to restrain the tiger.  This is a case of a complete and total lack of common sense from beginning to end.  This wasn't just felony stupid, it was capital stupid, and Nature imposed sentence on the spot.

Hello?!?  600lb predator?  This isn't like posing with your stuffed Tigger toy, y'know.

Hell of a shame about the waste of a perfectly good tiger.

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[rbos.livejournal.com]

A 600lb housecat would be dangerous, all right. Cats can be vicious bastards.

Consider; you'd be basically a large rat to them.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

A small rat.

[rbos.livejournal.com]

eh. a *big* cat is five kilos, a rat will mass 250g if that. A smallish human would mass 50, our hypothetical mutant housecat 300. The difference in is much smaller. So I stand by "large" rat.

But in terms of ability to defend ourselves without a weapon.. small. :(

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen roof-rats, have you? Hobbes brought home a dead roof-rat once that was bigger than he was. Granted, he was only about 8 months old at the time, but still....

[rbos.livejournal.com]

hm, mayhaps. Rats don't get that big around here.

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

I'll see your wager of a roof-rat, and I'll raise you a cane-rat. Male cane rats are ~70cm long, and 4.5kg. And ones that have been eating predominantly sugar cane taste very good.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Ming brought home one, this winter, that was about 1/4 his size. I was impressed (and glad it was Dead).

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

A big domestic cat can get up to 10 - 12 kilos; go meet a Maine Coon if you don't believe me.

Our Olivia, who wasn't particularly large, was 6kg.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That too. Shadow's pushing ten kilos, and he's just a generic moggy.