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Blue_Chill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:02 PM
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Roy from 'Siegfried & Roy' mauled by a tiger while on stage.
Edited on Sat Oct-04-03 03:06 PM by Blue_Chill
(CNN) -- A 9-year-old white tiger attacked Roy Horn of "Siegfried & Roy" during a Friday night performance on the Las Vegas strip -- the magician and trainer's 59th birthday.

Horn was listed as critical Saturday, according to the University Medical Center for emergency surgery's recorded message service, updated at 2:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. ET).

The tiger lunged at Horn's neck about half-way through the show, and dragged him off stage, audience members said. "He looked like a rag doll in his mouth," said Kirk Baser, from Pennsylvania.

source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/10/04/roy.attacked/index.html

I REALLY want to fel bad for this guy, but I just don't. Tigers are not meant to be show attractions. As long as they are used this way this kind of shit will happen.

I know I'm a shitty person for feeling this way but I can't help it.
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mot78 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:03 PM
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1. Look for the late-night shows to have a field day
I bet SNL will joke about it tonight on their season premiere.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:08 PM
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8. Well Now, I guess its time to hang up the whip and call it quits.
Get those animals to a breeding farm where they can live out their lives in peace and die a natural death.

We had an incident in Honolulu not long ago. An Abused elephant went beserk, killed the trainer in front of 857586960.008 spectators and went AWOL down to Kakaako where the cops unloaded 857635141006987564 bullets into the thing. Was gruesome. Awful. Yucky. But its the price of entertainment.

Murphy was right. sooner or later....
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:05 PM
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2. Your headline is of the man bites dog variety
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Blue_Chill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:07 PM
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5. lol thanks for saying so.
I fixed it. hahaha!
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:06 PM
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Poor tiger
"Roy from 'Siegfried & Roy' mauled tiger while on stage."

Why Roy, why? What did the tiger do to deserve it?
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Blue_Chill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:07 PM
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7. Damn you all noticed this huh?
I must need some more coffee.
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DonkeyKickAss Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:51 PM
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12. Tiger mauling Roy Horn
I heard the Tiger told Roy to "put some ice on it." after the incident.
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Seneca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:06 PM
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3. dupe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=251536&mesg_id=251536
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:06 PM
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4. Who mauled who? I'm confused...
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Blue_Chill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:07 PM
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6. Yeah I fixed the subject line
Tiger mauled Roy, not the other way around.
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:14 PM
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11. he actually did start mauling the tiger first.......
....from what I read...he started hitting the tiger over the head with a microphone...then the tiger attacked him...makes me not feel much pity for him either....as there is NO f'n reason for those animals to be on a f'n stage.....NO F'N REASON!!!!!!!!!:evilfrown:
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:11 PM
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9. Felines are fierce animals - they are predatory carnavores
Anything larger than a 12- 15 pound domestic cat would really be a handfull for anyone. And domestic cats have been with humans for thousands of years. They are still fierce, they are still untamable, that's why whe love them so much as we turn them over on their bellys to be petted - but leave the big cats alone, they aren't even close to house cats - who are still very wild.
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sventvkg Donating Member (448 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:11 PM
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10. ya mess with the Bull(Tiger) ya get the horns(teeth)...sucks!
Just a matter of time...Time to retire...He's rich enough.
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kayleybeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 04:43 PM
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13. Ouch!
I wouldn't wish that on anyone, but I agree, it's not the tiger's fault.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:27 PM
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14. Maybe the tiger was offended by Roy's gaudy clothing...
Who says that large predatory animals can't have good taste?
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Loyal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:28 PM
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15. I feel bad for him
:(
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FDRrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:38 PM
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16. Same here
good luck Roy.
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