The Most Horrible Thing I Have Ever Heard (1739 hits)
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Submitted by AsshOly (View user info) at 2006-02-26 05:41:07 EST
A little while ago I went down to visit some people at the school I went to last year and met some of my old swimming teammates at a party. We got to talking about how the team is doing this year, what's different, what's good, all of that. They mentioned something about not having any real solid breaststrokers [insert lame joke here], and this confused me.
"What about ----?"
"Oh, uh, you didn't hear, huh. Uh, umm, he's not around here anymore."
"What? Why?"
"He, uh, had personal issues back home and dropped out."
Later on I found out from another friend what happened. His girlfriend, a senior in high school, was attacked and killed by a bengal tiger while taking her senior pictures.
Read here: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/338918p-289453c.html
Obviously they can't report that the tiger ripped out most of her neck, almost taking her head completely off, but it was noted by everybody present. This guy, my teammate, couldn't deal with this. He arrived on campus in a deep depression and dropped out of school by the second week.
Can you imagine? There can't be a worse way to go than this. How could you get over this as a parent or a boyfriend? I would be irreparably fucked up.
It's not this girl's fault that she is dead, probably. It's the fault of whoever said the animal was safe. What I really dont get is why people go on believing you can "tame" a feral animal like this. Was Roy's tiger mauling not big enough news?
I read an article about a kid from Wisconsin, I think, who raised a bear cub and became a state contender in wrestling by sparring with his fucking bear every day. He's still not dead, but I'm waiting to hear about it.
Feral animals have this unfortunate habit of reverting to their natural instincts when they feel threatened. It wont be long before this wrestler guy puts an accidental finger in his buddy's eye and gets his throat ripped open. Flashing bulbs happen to not be part of a bengal tiger's natural habitat, and something like this can only be expected. If an animal feels threatened, it WILL defend itself. I got bit by a dog a few weeks ago for pushing it off of my Monopoly board in the middle of a game. If it was a tiger, or a fucking bear, I wouldn't have a left arm anymore.
Even my hamster used to bite me. This is what animals do. When the animal is ten times stronger than you, pound-for-pound, as the average tiger is relative to the average human, somebody's bound to get fucked up.
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-02-27 10:59:49 EST (#)
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it sadly doesn't surprise me that this happened in flyover country. but that sucks. don't go near tigers unless they're tranq'ed.
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2006-02-27 10:48:16 EST (#)
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-02-27 10:43:29 EST (#)
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oh dear god in heaven what were they thinking?
Don't these people ANY of them have a cat at home? I don't mean a wild, snarling, big cat I mean a kitty cat like Jack has.
Domestic cats have been "tame" for I'm going with thousands of years just because I don't really know how long but a long long ass time and yet if you rub one of the damn things wrong or maybe poke that little orange spot on its butt one too many times it will bite. If you shove the damn thing off the kitchen counter where it fuck well knows it is not allowed to go and it doesn't want to get shoved off the counter, it will hiss, sniff around for something that belongs to you, knock it over, and then run and purry and cute to hide behind Sam. Maybe that kind of thing just happens at my house, but the point is the little fury darling don't just kill prey, they torment it to death. Just watching a 10 pound kitty cat with a mouse or a bird should illustrate why you don't fuck one the size of a Bengal tiger or a regular tiger or even a mountain lion if you get right down to it.
Maybe they should have tried the squirt gun trick.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-27 09:46:28 EST (#)
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How is this the most horrible thing you've ever heard? I mean it's not like they'd gone out and he was going to walk her home but they agreed that she'd go on her own because it wasn't far and he had a test the next day and anyway she's brutally sexually assaulted and killed. That'd be bad, that would make me feel like a bad boyfriend.
Or if she had a stillborn and then killed herself. That'd be bad. Being eaten by a tigger though? That's easy.
Also I watched this TV program that mentioned the Roy thing and apparently the last thing Roy said was 'don't blame the cat' because it was responding in a sort of maternal/loving way. Problem was Roy's neck wasn't up to big cat luvin'.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2006-02-27 09:29:14 EST (#)
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I don't see why they kill the animal in these circumstances. Do you scrap a car if someone runs themselves over with it? Do you melt down a knife if someone stabs themselves with it? Granted, these are inanimate objects, but in one sense it's the same; the animal had no human motive to kill the girl. It was responding to stimulus just as it would in the wild (and before we get into pity for serial killers; no, they are not responding as they would in the wild. There IS no wild for a human and hasn't been for 10,000+ years.) While it's certainly sad, the girl should have known the dangers of interacting with wild animals.
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-02-27 02:19:22 EST (#)
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I read 2/3rds of this earlier today, and wanted to reply but was cooking out and lost my place. I'd almost give my life if this was the most horribe thing I'd ever heard, much less experienced. A horrible thing for the girl, and guy, no doubt. But it happened to you only indirectly.
That tiger should not have been put down. It was doing nothing more than what it was born for, to kill. Period. To quote Rambo.
Submitted by crazyaardvark (user info) at 2006-02-27 01:57:21 EST (#)
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Oh my god, major Frosties craving now.
Thanks a lot.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-02-26 16:49:04 EST (#)
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Yeah, I had a problem with that too. They dissected the tiger and (!) found nothing biologically wrong with it. What in the hell were they expecting to find?
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-02-26 16:19:53 EST (#)
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you know what sucks? they killed the tiger, just because of its natural instincts. that is cruel.
i think in this case the person botarded enough to let a bunch of highschool students take their pictures with wild animals should be killed.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-02-26 15:51:37 EST (#)
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you know, i didnt read the Kansas City Star report, the first hit on the google list until just now.
"The young lady involved with the pictures was not allowed to touch the cat during the photo shoot ... The public has never been allowed to touch the cats for safety reasons."
Submitted by PoTtY (user info) at 2006-02-26 15:47:21 EST (#)
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WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-02-26 15:45:31 EST (#)
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Submitted by StartMeUp (user info) at 2006-02-26 15:31:44 (#)
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I don't live too far from where this supposedly happened, and I haven't heard shit about it. I'm calling shenanigans.
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Submitted by StartMeUp (user info) at 2006-02-26 15:31:44 EST (#)
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I don't live too far from where this supposedly happened, and I haven't heard shit about it. I'm calling shenanigans.
Submitted by ampersand (user info) at 2006-02-26 13:55:13 EST (#)
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Did anyone else watch Grizzly Man? Though also fucked up, that is an amazing story there.
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2006-02-26 12:53:56 EST (#)
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"We're still trying to figure out what caused the tiger to attack," he said.
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I'm going with "because it was a fucking tiger you douche".
Idiots.
Submitted by queenemily (user info) at 2006-02-26 12:07:05 EST (#)
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Exactly how stupid do you have to be that you walk up to a tiger, poke it and then flash several bright lights in its face, all the while expecting it to remain calm and collected?
Submitted by Malachewaii (user info) at 2006-02-26 12:01:46 EST (#)
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I read an article about a kid from Wisconsin, I think, who raised a bear cub and became a state contender in wrestling by sparring with his fucking bear every day. He's still not dead, but I'm waiting to hear about it.
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Can't..stop.. laughing..
although it sucks she died.. that line is just.. great.
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2006-02-26 11:53:47 EST (#)
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I remember taking the kids to Alaska to go into the wilderness and take a hilarious picture of them offering a polar bear some bottles of coca-cola. I was all ready to drive out there and someone told me that was a bad idea. Don't polar bears like coke?
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-02-26 11:15:44 EST (#)
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Hahahahahahaha, that stupid bitch.
Submitted by MandaPanda (user info) at 2006-02-26 06:17:20 EST (#)
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But anyways, I'm tired, and I think it's my bedtime.
Sorry for being argumentive.
Submitted by MandaPanda (user info) at 2006-02-26 06:15:08 EST (#)
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I'm not saying that this isn't a horrible thing, because it is, but you can't place sole blame on the trainer. He didn't MAKE her pose with the tiger. I'm sure she had to sign some liability waiver to get his done (if the trainer was smart enough to cover his ass). Actually, she's 17, so her parents would have had to sign it. So, if that's the case, it's their fault, too, right?
I'm 19 and I wouldn't even THINK about getting near a tiger, even if someone paid me. Even at age 17, I wouldn't have considered it.
Hell, I wouldn't even pose with a complete stranger's DOG.
Maybe I'm more cautious than most, and maybe you're not as cautious as me, but you can't go pinning the blame on just one person for something like this.
It may have been a school tradition, but that doesn't mean that you need to partake in it if you don't want to. She wanted to. Her parents let her. Her friends influenced her. The trainer snapped the picture.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-02-26 05:55:53 EST (#)
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You are a 17-year-old girl. You are standing in line and watch all of your friends take pictures with this really cute furry animal. Oh, it's just so cute. Oh, I think I'll pet the kitty, you say.
"ROAR"
In all fairness, I would have taken my picture next to the cat because I wouldnt have known any better either. She was just 17, and her school's been doing this for (I dont remember how long, so I'm going to make up a number) 80 years without an incident. It's a tradition. It's not her fault.
Submitted by MandaPanda (user info) at 2006-02-26 05:52:32 EST (#)
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Oh, and +2 for the file name.
Submitted by MandaPanda (user info) at 2006-02-26 05:49:53 EST (#)
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"It's not this girl's fault that she is dead, probably."
Um, she was the one that ultimately made the decision to pose with a tiger.