It's pretty much my favorite animal.

This thread was created purely for Napolean Dynamite quotes.

Two short paragraphs makes an article these days? Man, i'm in the worng business.

I should sell this post to the AP as a commentary on modern journalistic crapitude.

/yeah, i know

...appears to have been a tiger

He's dead, and you still can't examine him closely enough to clearly identify its species?

i can't believe they chose to kill it rather than sedate it.

looks like someone beat off to fat chick porn.

who's going to admit it?

I can't believe they didn't eat it while it was fresh

Obscure? But shouldn't be. Moorpark is a short hop from Thousand Oaks.

Link is worthless without pictures.

The reports I heard said it had six-inch long toes.

So when do we declare it AWOL? I forget how this whole Marine-esque continuity turns out.

"...appears to have been a tiger"

He's dead, and you still can't examine him closely enough to clearly identify its species?

Further, if 'has been' was a tiger, it's pretty safe to say he probably still is a tiger. Just a dead tiger.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/02/23/state/n185024S36.DTL

Better article here

Tiger, Tiger burning bright
Near the Hero of the Right
What immortal hand or eye
Framed thy fearful symmetry?

*delete 'was' in prior post

there's tigers in them thar hills

It's a ligerock.

When I opened the link I expected, I don't know an article.

AprillaDeVille
i can't believe they chose to kill it rather than sedate it.

No kidding!!! The story about the tracks has been on the news for at least three days now... they could have prepared better for the situation...
absolutely rediculous.
/Ungh! Arg! and other angry noises!

AprillaDeVille: i can't believe they chose to kill it rather than sedate it.

Yeah. I just saw that on the news. The tiger was running around looking freaked, and then BAM!!, they just dropped it. It looked like a bunch of cops applying their usual "solution" to problems.

/when you have a hammer, every thing looks like a nail
//SoCal cops - maybe they thought it was a black tiger?
///knee jerk AND a regular jerk

The LA Times has nice photos of the poor beast. Registration required.

SteinAuf: It's a ligerock.

Or a Chupacabra; why do people write articles like this with absolutely no knowledge about what they are dealing with?

Shenanagans!

/Got nuthin'.

unavailable for comment.

An elusive tiger that prowled through Ventura County near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was killed Wednesday morning in Moorpark, but its origin remains a mystery.

The tiger, weighing between 400 to 600 pounds, was sighted walking behind the houses and through the ravines approximately 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Nearby is Miller Park, with well-used soccer fields.

According to Troy Swauger, a spokesman for the state Department of Fish and Game, the tiger was spotted about 6:30 a.m. walking through the yard of the Tucker family.

"It was old and tired-looking. It was walking along our fence and then went to our next-door neighbor's yard," Mary Tucker said.

"It was just a weird thing to see him in our backyard," husband Ken Tucker said.

Authorities were called and fired four shots at the big cat. It was not known how many hit the animal, Swauger said.

Some critics questioned why the tiger was killed and not tranquilized.

"With all this time to track it and all these options they could draw on, you have to ask the question, was it really necessary to kill the tiger?" asked Madeline Bernstein, president of the Los Angeles branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Swauger defended the shooting.

"If the cat got out of the area, there's no telling what could have happened," he said. "Using a tranquilizer gun was an option that was available, but the safety of residents and motorists was of great concern." Officials were investigating from where the tiger came, Swauger said. They will contact those having exotic pet permits in the area, but it is possible that the animal was illegal.

On Feb. 8, residents reported paw prints, setting off a series of warnings that a dangerous big cat was on the loose. By Feb. 15, officials said the print, about 6 inches at the pad, appeared to match other tracks found about eight miles away.

What can I say?

It was dark, I was alone... and it was delicious.

IT's GRRRRRRRRRRREAT!!!!

/Tony

AprillaDeVille

Exactly what I was wondering about...why not just sedate the confused animal and move it rather than kill it?

/so much for "Social Security"...

Wow. That article was... brief.

a rock?

Hobbes would be very upset right now.

Where can you see tigers? Only in Kenya.

/Kenya believe it?

"A massive orange cat with black stripes"...

Are we positive it wasn't a massive black cat with orange stripes?

/dude that just blew my mind

,

This is even better from yesterday's paper:

http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2724792,00.html

"The sighting reported Monday of a large animal in a field between Highway 23 and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was, in fact, a large boulder and not the 400-pound exotic cat that is believed to be loose in the area, officials said."

Hmmmmmm....a large cat, orange stripes...i can see the resemblance....

/morans

(sorry...meant large orange cat with stripes)

/moran myslef

Worthless without pictures.

Somebody's pet, probably not old and tired, but more likely starved half to death.

They can easily eat 50 pounds of meat a day.

Gotta find the preek that kept (and starved) his tiger to make up for his teeny peeny.

..but I'm a little biased.

Stunt_Cock!: Kenya believe it?


SoCal
Free snorkel with every visit!

Jebus is to Bevets as
Tiger is to

a) catdrchris
b) Winnie the Pooh
c) Lion
d) bicycle shop in Cairo
e) None of the above

One article says it takes 5-10 minutes for the tranquilizer to kick in. That's about right for an intramuscular injection of a dose that's high enough to knock the tiger out but not high enough to kill it.

Now the tiger is going to feel the dart hitting it, and it's going to be VERY angry, frightened, and confused. For 5 to 10 minutes.

Ever see a housecat go absolutely batshiat? Ever try to DEAL with a housecat in that mode? Lots of people have scars from trying to detach their cat from a fishhook or something similar--we had a thread about this a few days ago.

Now take that and multiply it by, oh, 100 or so. Picture a 500-pound animal with VERY large teeth and claws going absolutely berserk in an inhabited neighborhood as it tries to get away from the Thing That Hurts. Remember, it can run 30 miles per hour and jump 8-10 feet or so.

I love animals, but I think they made the right decision in shooting the poor bastard.

I don't understand why the tiger wasn't tranquilized instead of being shot to death, same crap happened in Kentucky with some hard-on cop shot a family dog to death last year.

Another hard-on cop with a itchy trigger finger (did it smell like crap too?)

I just love seeing catdrchris's photos. Must be amazing to see those beautiful creatures up close.

/has a telephoto lens for a reason

I submitted this with a funnier headline.

/would think a story about a tiger roaming the hills around palm springs, and then getting killed would warrant a bigger story. Maybe a pic?

I also submitted this with a better article.

/just one Greenlight before I die, please?

Ok, I didn't RTFA, but how does "a rock" fit into that chain?

what a bunch of bastards. They should have put it to sleep. instead of shooting it.

2005-02-23 11:22:16 PM steviep

Don't forget - in order to get a tranq into any kind of animal without killing the poor thing - the velocity of the projectile is vital. Because of the density of the muscles of the animal your trying to tranquilize, and the deceleration of the projectile that will occur in the distance from the muzzle to the animal.

What does all this fancy talk mean? It means that to effectively get a dart into this animal, one would have to be within 15 - 20 yds max. I love cats, especially big cats. I wish more than anything, that places still existed on earth where these perfect predators could do their thing. But with 7 billion morons on the loose, and no sign of any horrible disease to put us in our place, that just will not happen. The cops made the right choice in this case by killing the animal. It was the safest thing for the pursuers of the cat, and the most humane thing for the animal itself. The BEST solution to this problem involves a number of things:

1st: stop fcuking with nature. Leave freaking tigers in India where they belong
2nd: Drop the atom bomb NOW. There are too many people on this planet, we need to return some of that space and those resources to the creatures if we wish to see more of them in the future.
3rd: Profit.

Sid_6.7: Noble effort though.

Yizuman


I don't understand why the tiger wasn't tranquilized instead of being shot to death, same crap happened in Kentucky with some hard-on cop shot a family dog to death last year.

i cant believe that there are people this freaking retarded.

I was wondering as well why they didn't just tranquelize it. Thanks StevieP, having just read that thread a couple hours ago, I understand what you mean. But couldn't a drugged piece of meat worked too? I guess they just wanted the problem solved. Poor scared giant kitty.

big cat

Maybe the L.A.P.D. thought it was a 13 year old black kid.

KABC-7 had some great chopper footage of it walking thru the cherryblossom trees... Big striped creature near the Reagan Library, eh?

A big cat eh...? Like a puma?

OH NO, Richard Parker!



/literary reference

i think we all know who's really to blame for all this.........BURT REYNOLDS! thats right. Burt reynolds playing a saucy supreme court justice, competing in a cross-country fire truck race to save his grand-daughter.

Why the fark did these morans shoot the tiger? They could have just darted him and left him out in the wild, tigers are endangered enough as it is there was absolutely no need for these asshats to shoot this beautiful creature.

FlyingJ: Big striped creature near the Reagan Library,

Conan the Librarian?

Hurray for il Dottore !!!

I love sea-faring adventures...I also like "pie".

It wasn't a rock. It was rock lobster.

Did somebody say orange with black stripes?

They shot him with a gun because a tranquilizer dart would take too long to take effect for an animal that large, and he was near a school and a park.

i grew up in the area and i can say with a fair amount of certainty that they saw a rare opportunity to kill a tiger and couldn't resist...

believe me, i have some insight...

Got lions and tigers only in Kenya!

/forget Norway!

And shootoing bullets WON'T make a tiger angry????? All it would have taken is a slightly missed shot and you'd have an EXTREMELY angry AND hurt Tiger on the loose AND it wouldn't be going nightie-night in 5-10 minutes. FARKTARDS.

Use the cops to feed the poor animals at the Wildlife Waystation. They could use the free food. mmmmm soylent blue.

Where can you see rocks?
Only in Kenya
Come to Kenya, we've got rocks

Where can you see dead tigers?
Only in Kenya
Got rocks and dead tigers, only in Kenya

Forget Norway!

/more like SNOREway

"Look! A man eating tiger"
"Mmm, delicious, these tigers"
/ISIRTA

Maybe the L.A.P.D. thought it was a 13 year old black kid.

That would have been nice. Too bad it was a Tiger though.

/If a criminal tried to run me over I'd shoot them too.

I'm no PETA activist by any means, but I really think that society treats animals like dirt and we really should be thinking hard about it. This poor cat needn't have been shot: I'm sure it was just a trigger happy cop dying to SHOOT A TIGER>....