http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/ ... 2600.shtml
BEIJING, Feb. 23, 2007
(AP) A six-year-old girl was bitten to death by a tiger at a south China zoo while posing for a picture with the animal, state media reported Friday.
The girl, identified only as Ruixin, was standing behind the tiger with her mother and four other relatives when it attacked at a zoo in Yunnan province on Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The local Chuncheng Evening News reported on its Web site that the tiger attacked the girl shortly after the flash went off on her uncle's camera. The tiger's paw shot out and grabbed Ruixin, pulling her head into its mouth, it said.
Five zoo staff beat the tiger with wood sticks and a bench until it released the girl after about one minute, it said. Ruixin's mother was also bitten on the hand while struggling to save her daughter.
The girl was taken to a local hospital but rescue efforts failed, Xinhua said.
It said the animal was one of six tigers that perform at a circus in the zoo. The photo service, has been suspended, it said.
Phones at the Yuantongshan Zoo in Yunnan's capital of Kunming, where the attack occurred, rang unanswered. It was not known if the tiger had been killed following the attack.
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That's just sad. Note to everyone: wild animals are WILD! They can and will kill you without notice.
6yr Old Girl Attacked and Killed by Tiger
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Tiger 1
Girl 0
..sad but obvious.
The zoo will probably get sued cause no one put a sticker on the Tiger that said "do not feed your children to this animal."
Girl 0
..sad but obvious.
The zoo will probably get sued cause no one put a sticker on the Tiger that said "do not feed your children to this animal."
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lol @ the people beating the tiger with sticks and a bench... there's your friggin' problem. If the people don't know how to handle a tiger, then what the hell are they doing owning one...
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I know I shouldn't laugh but I can just see the guy saying to himself... "ok dumb-ass, you get him with the stick, ... I'll smack him with the huge fuckin' bench"....
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darwinism at it's finest.....
I wonder if the photographer had enough sense to keep shooting or if anyone had a video cam rolling.
How could no one predict this? Line up a bunch of people behind a predatory animal, make a bunch of obnoxious noises to make the aforementioned predator look at the camera and smile pretty (what nice teeth that cute one in front has), and then discharge a blinding flash in the poor beasts eyes.....I would have tried to chew on that little girl too (although I prefer mine a little older and not in the company of family)
I wonder if the photographer had enough sense to keep shooting or if anyone had a video cam rolling.
How could no one predict this? Line up a bunch of people behind a predatory animal, make a bunch of obnoxious noises to make the aforementioned predator look at the camera and smile pretty (what nice teeth that cute one in front has), and then discharge a blinding flash in the poor beasts eyes.....I would have tried to chew on that little girl too (although I prefer mine a little older and not in the company of family)
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has this video leaked yet?
i know i am a horrible person.
but i agree, benches and sticks? for-fuckin-real?
i know i am a horrible person.
but i agree, benches and sticks? for-fuckin-real?
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