Roy Mauling

I just went to the site, and what in the name a mother...they're all the same freakin' pictures over and over again! Jaheezius!

mighty perplexed,
emski.

P.S. I will now shut up and let this thread return to the highly amusing, I mean TRAGIC mauling of Roy whussisname.

I hate when bad things happen to good tigers...

I don't particularly care for animal shows. If fact, it saddens me to see natural predators confined in unnatural habitats for the sole purpose of our entertainment or someone else’s capital gain.
The tiger was just being a tiger.

Go see Cirque Du Soleil instead...

I had read that several stage hands sprayed the tiger with fire extinguishers to distract the tiger enough to get him off of Roy. I was surprised to find this out, I would think that management would have had some type of security measure put in place, to protect the performers, audience and the tigers. Just on the chance something like this happened. I guess thats what Las Vegas is all about...trying to beat the odds.

[ Edited by: DawnTiki on 2003-10-08 17:54 ]

El Guapo solves the mystery. pt 2

Where are the white tigers that belong to the famous magicians?

Did you say they were white?

We don't know any tigers that dress like us.

They couldn't have disappeared.

To be continued...

[ Edited by: Kailuageoff on 2003-10-08 18:02 ]

Don'y worry M'am - 'll find 'em....

I have information El Guapo but it's going to cost you.

What is your price?

Make me a Mai-Tai you hansome devil.

Grrrrreat!

I'm moistened by danger.

I hope El Guapo isn't in any danger.

Intermission

[ Edited by: Kailuageoff on 2003-10-08 18:27 ]

Perhaps he went Trick-Or-Treating....

Yes, Tangaroa. It is that time of year.

Are we allowed to discuss politics during the intermission? I'm a socialist doctor.

Heavens no!

Eee-gad!!!

I'm Hanford and I'll knock you out!

You are giving me a headache. Can we please get back to our show....

[ Edited by: Kailuageoff on 2003-10-08 18:48 ]

Ooooohhhh... Too much Halloween candy.....

When it comes to tiger acts...I think the Romans had it goin' on at the Colosseum. But that show ended years ago.

I regret to inform you KailuaGeoff has been badly bitten by one of us. I must nurse him back to health.

The End

When Hanford speaks, TC listens!

Lisa Lisa

[ Edited by: Cultjam on 2003-10-08 20:31 ]

On 2003-10-08 17:07, hanford_lemoore wrote:

On 2003-10-08 16:55, suzywong wrote:
It's a shame one doesn't often hear about those that promote dog fighting getting mauled.

The media has only potrayed Roy's mauling only as a tragedy, really. If people are coming to the conclusion that Roy deserved it, I don't think the media is persuading them.

~Hanford

I may not have been clear. I was being sarcastic in that many have commented the animals weren't treated properly. When that is far from truth. And how cruel and disgusting those involved in dog fighting are (they should get attacked to see how it feels)....

If the tiger wanted to kill him, it would have.

A SALUTE to all the humans who have bought us dried cat food.

A Tiki Cheers To You!

[ Edited by: Unga Bunga on 2003-10-08 19:35 ]

Siegfried and Roy announce their new tiger act!

"Pay no attention to the tiger behind the green curtain!"

Now we got Bears eating photogs in Alaska! Not a good way to go!!! Ouch!!!

Ben, that guy who was eaten by the bears......said that brown bears were just basically party animals. JEEZ! No guns allowed and the guy would crawl around on the ground and approach mom bear and her 2 cubs? JEEZ AGAIN! Croc Hunter.....Bear Hunter......Great White Hunter......won't be long before you'll hear about a trainer at Sea World getting bit in half by Shamu. Uh-huh, That's show biz!

T.C. NEWS ALERT!!
Siegfried and Roy's new Renaissance Rabbit Act goes terribly wrong. Siegfried is in stable condition. Film at 11:00.
Listen to eyewitness account: http://www.moviewavs.com/Movies/Monty_Python/mp11.wav

A Tiki Cheers To You!

[ Edited by: Unga Bunga on 2003-10-09 01:54 ]

President Carter was attacked by a swimming rabbit. (This is not meant to be political.

From http://www.straightdope.com
10-Nov-1995

What was the deal with Jimmy Carter and the killer rabbit?

Dear Cecil:

What's the straight dope on Jimmy Carter's once being attacked by a killer rabbit? I hear there are actually photos of Carter swinging for his life at this rabbit, but his people refused to release them because "some facts about the president must remain forever wrapped in obscurity." What the hell is going on? --Donald Lilly, North Hollywood, California

Dear Donald:

Well, right now I'd say it's pretty quiet, which is about what you'd figure, seeing as how the killer rabbit thing happened in 1979. Not that stories about feckless good ol' boy presidents don't have their pertinence these days. Say what you will about Bill Clinton's PR problems, though, Jimmy Carter was in a class by himself. Nice man, but he was one president whose image a couple accusations from bimboes would have probably improved.

The rabbit incident happened on April 20 while Carter was taking a few days off in Plains, Georgia. He was fishing from a canoe in a pond when he spotted the fateful rabbit swimming toward him. It was never precisely determined what the rabbit's problem was. Carter, always trying to look at things from the other guy's point of view, later speculated that it was fleeing a predator. Whatever the case, it was definitely a troubled rabbit. "It was hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared and making straight for the president," a press account said.

The Secret Service having been caught flatfooted--I'll grant you an amphibious rabbit assault is a tough thing to defend against--the president did what he could to protect himself. Initially it was reported that he had hit the rabbit with his paddle. Realizing this would not play well with the Rabbit Lovers Guild, Carter later clarified that he had merely splashed water at the rabbit, which then swam off toward shore. A White House photographer, ever alert to history's pivotal moments, snapped a picture of the encounter for posterity.

Good thing, too. Carter's own staff was skeptical when he told the rabbit story back at the White House. Some ventured the opinion that rabbits couldn't swim, didn't attack people, and sure weren't about to take on a sitting president, even if it was Jimmy Carter. Miffed, Jimmy ordered up a print of the aforementioned photo, but this failed to resolve the issue. The picture showed the president with his paddle raised, and there was something in the water, "but you couldn't tell what it was," an anonymous staffer was quoted as saying. The average politician would have said, goddamit, I'm president of the United States and I say it was a rabbit. But Carter was not that kind of guy. He ordered a blowup made, establishing at last that his attacker was, well, a bunny, or "swamp rabbit," to use press secretary Jody Powell's somewhat fiercer sounding term.

OK, not one of the shining moments of Carter's career, but so far not a major train wreck, inasmuch as nobody outside the White House knew anything about it. Jody Powell took care of that problem the following August when he told the rabbit story to Associated Press reporter Brooks Jackson over a cup of tea. Powell ought to have known that you cannot tell anything to reporters in August because there is nothing else to write about and they will make any fool thing into a front page scandal. Which is exactly what happened. The Washington Post put the bunny story on page one complete with a cartoon takeoff of the famous "Jaws" movie poster entitled "Paws." The media ran with the story for a week, the worst aspect from Carter's perspective undoubtedly being the columnists, who basically all said, yeah, it's just a rabbit, but it shows you the kind of president we've got here. The administration refused to release the photos, although I seem to recall that Reagan's people later found and leaked them. Carter's subsequent drubbing at the polls was a foregone conclusion, hostage crisis or not. Lesson for life #1: if it moves, kill it. Lesson for life #2: if you can't kill it, for God's sake don't talk about it to the Associated Press.

[ Edited by: Kailuageoff on 2003-10-09 08:27 ]

oh GAWD, Kailuageoff!! I am both crying and my stomache is hurting from laughing at your use of "Moistened by Danger". And I'm even in my office during free period, and yet STILL I had to suppress my laughter so as not to disturb the other teachers. Thank GOODness that I wasn't sneaking a peek while the kids were taking a test!! THAT was a milk-and-Frosted-Flakes snorter too! (The "They're grrrreeeat!" from you, Mattfink, also pert' near killed me!)

hey, your nasal passage probably needed a good flushing out any how...lol!!!

On 2003-10-09 09:54, Formikahini wrote:
THAT was a milk-and-Frosted-Flakes snorter too! (The "They're grrrreeeat!" from you, Mattfink, also pert' near killed me!)

http://www.mycathatesyou.com

Rumor has it that Siegfried has a 23yr old boyfriend on the side and he actually gave a command for the tiger to attack Roy to get him out of the picture.