Because the darts wouldn’t have stopped him.
A 500-pound tiger somehow got loose last week and wandered around in Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles, for four or five days. At first there were just mysterious seven-inch wide paw prints, but this morning (Wednesday) there was a sighting. So far nobody knows who lost the tiger. There are no native tigers in Ventura County, so it is assumed this one was being kept by someone.
Anyway, authorities were called. They could have used tranquilizer darts, but said later they were “concerned for the safety of residents and motorists.” So they shot him dead.
February 24th, 2005 at 6:39 am
Nice. It’s not like tigers are endangered or anything like that. Stupid trigger happy assholes.
Sounds like a repeat of what happened in Florida with another tiger.
February 24th, 2005 at 7:33 am
*seething*
I believe there are people who will come up with truly ridiculous arguments in order to justify their desire to destroy life.
Here in the Midwest, we have the contraception technology to easily control the deer population without cruelty. This could prevent deer-vehicle accidents, and other problems associated with over-population. Instead, we hire sharp-hooters every year, costing taxpayers many thousands without hope of any long-term solution. I guess it’s more fun to play with guns than birth control pills for deer.
February 24th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
You know, even with all of that, I’ve never seen more dead dear than when I drive along I-35 or I-80 in Iowa…
and yes, guns are the solution to most problems, didn’t you know that?
February 24th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
This really distresses me. I hate that we seems to think it is OK to kill anything on this planet, including other people. I am sure all this bad karma will come back to bite us in the ass later.
February 24th, 2005 at 5:10 pm
I doubt they really needed to kill the poor guy–it was probably just more expedient for them. I bet that Big Cat Rescue lady’s pretty pissed off. She’s somewhere in the Valley, isn’t she?
February 24th, 2005 at 8:46 pm
Kung Pow Pig: we’re ALWAYS losing things like tigers and pythons and monitor lizards in Florida… we had one big cat on the loose last year, and just yesterday a man pulled a 6 foot python out of his toilet…
February 24th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
First it’s rain and now it is tigers. I’ll give a shit when you start talking about Cali being beseiged by rain of tigers.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:30 am
Animal lovers and smartasses…
I love you all.
Long live the tiger.