tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post259485419403452833..comments2024-03-21T18:54:06.548-07:00Comments on Old Enough to Know Better: Meanwhile, Back in the Tiger's Cage ...Steve Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-40665725031526400242008-08-06T07:27:00.000-07:002008-08-06T07:27:00.000-07:00Elsewhere in the news(paper) for August 5, 2008: T...Elsewhere in the news(paper) for August 5, 2008: <BR/><A HREF="http://www.comics.com/creators/wizardofid/archive/images/wizardofid2045851080805.gif" REL="nofollow">The Wizard of Id</A>J.D. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031474024284784846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-46376511210934097962008-08-06T06:18:00.000-07:002008-08-06T06:18:00.000-07:00When photographing tigers, a telephoto lens is jus...When photographing tigers, a telephoto lens is just the thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-30012239745886943502008-08-06T00:06:00.000-07:002008-08-06T00:06:00.000-07:00Food for thought - thought for food -- try not to ...Food for thought - thought for food -- try not to be food!Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16441344447548078615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-48881378253734207412008-08-05T21:03:00.000-07:002008-08-05T21:03:00.000-07:00Darwin was right. I'm just sayin'...Dan: You kno...Darwin was right. I'm just sayin'...<BR/><BR/>Dan: You know an odd collection of people.J.D. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031474024284784846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-13921174697354288642008-08-05T18:44:00.000-07:002008-08-05T18:44:00.000-07:00Sure, there are better ways to die. But if you end...Sure, there are better ways to die. But if you end up being squished by a load of pumpkins and people laugh at your funeral, you'll probably wish then you'd gotten the tigers.<BR/><BR/>I must know a dozen guys that's happened to.Daniel Keys Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992599044462413412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-86663066451184171092008-08-05T18:17:00.000-07:002008-08-05T18:17:00.000-07:00One of my favorite single-panel cartoons was by, I...One of my favorite single-panel cartoons was by, I think, Michael ffolks, probably in Playboy in the 70's, though it might have been in Psychology Today or The New Yorker. The toon shows characters like Tarzan and Jane sitting in a treehouse, Halfway up the trunk of the tree is a large, grinning crocodile, and the Tarzan character is saying, "They're not supposed to be able to do that ..."<BR/><BR/>Any time one is dealing with an animal that isn't thoroughly domesticated, and even then, what they are supposed to be able to do and what they can do isn't always a match. <BR/><BR/>I once saw my kitty cat leap off the floor of a shower and come scrabbling over the top of the glass stall six and a half feet high because she did not want to take a bath. <BR/><BR/>When offered an opportunity once to pose for a photograph with a young tiger that was bigger than I inside a chain link fence, I declined. Oh he's tame, they said.<BR/><BR/> There was an SF fan sitting in the front row eating a burger, and I was watching the cat watch him. <BR/><BR/>No, thank you. There's a reason the hair on your neck goes up when you see a big cat flash his fangs. Going into an enclosed space with one voluntarily is not going to be likely in my case. I can think of better ways to die.Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-41485288880135310432008-08-05T17:51:00.000-07:002008-08-05T17:51:00.000-07:00The piece doesn't say, but they always do put them...The piece doesn't say, but they always do put them down after a bad mauling, and surely if the kid dies they will. <BR/><BR/>That is a shame, too.Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-35369043352643499592008-08-05T16:53:00.000-07:002008-08-05T16:53:00.000-07:00Does the article say if they'll put down the three...Does the article say if they'll put down the three tigers that mauled the kid?<BR/><BR/>If they do, 4 will be suffering for the stupidity of 1.<BR/><BR/>Sheeesh.<BR/><BR/>TristanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-51161653999408561902008-08-05T15:51:00.000-07:002008-08-05T15:51:00.000-07:00Well, given that there was a cover-up in the first...Well, given that there was a cover-up in the first incident, maybe the true story hadn't hit the news in time for the kid in the second incident to see it.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand.<BR/><BR/>If he was dumb enough to voluntarily go into a cage with three (3) unrestrained tigers, maybe it wouldn't have mattered if he heard about the first incident or not.Tiel Aisha Ansarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994169558252043919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-73146504739250139232008-08-05T14:21:00.000-07:002008-08-05T14:21:00.000-07:00This is why you don't fuck with harimau.I was at t...This is why you don't fuck with harimau.<BR/><BR/>I was at the zoo a few years ago, at the lion pit. The rim of the pit is maybe 30 feet up, and has a handrail around it. A little girl nearby, maybe 5 or 6, was leaning up on the handrail with both hands, in such a way that her body was tending toward horizontal. I yelled at her to get down.<BR/><BR/>Then her mother, and the woman I was with, started yelling at ME for being "controlling." <BR/><BR/>You just can't win.Stephen Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12561935944292699586noreply@blogger.com