Man killed by Tiger in zoo in UK

Adios dip shit!!

I am glad they are not going to put down the tiger.

They were able to shoo the tiger away, and airlift him to the hospital where he died. If the tiger continued to attack and he could be saved, no idea what would have happened.
Remember they shot a full grown male gorilla to rescue a child.

Hedge774 said:

My last post on this sad thread. From what I have seen, this person eas severely, mentally handicapped. I hope I'm wrong.

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That’s bad if there was something wrong with him.
My aunts in-law family had a kid that was bad. Off in the 70s ( I know it’s different time now)
But I remember seeing them take him to the animal barn at a 4-h and fair show combo.
As bad as it sounds today they had a dog chan going to his belt. I was younger and ask my aunt about it.
Flatly they can take him places and don’t have to worry about him getting away from them where they can watch out for him.

Yes a very 70s country thing but it worked

Tragic. Obviously individuals of a sound mind don’t do this. Predictable and regrettable outcome.

So, tiger man eaters they try to tranquilize and relocate to zoo.

Then, in zoo, when tiger attacks someone they shoot him?

And in a same time, tranquilizing is much easier in zoo, then in real jungle environment.

The tiger is not harmed and will be allowed to live latest update is .

Now it is a marauder there . Perhaps Hunter Habib should send park authorities a copy of his book .

farmer_john said:

I dont get the advocado toast house argument whats that about?

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Go on then, I'll take a shot at this.

Its a reference to the false causality between the rise of popularity of avocado toast (representative of differing spending habits) and the ability to the younger generation to afford home ownership as today's battlefield of the age-old pass-time of saying "us oldies are better than the woke, weedy youths of today"

Millennials and younger generations eat larger amounts of avocado on toast than boomers or older, and in most cases find it much more difficult to get onto the housing market.

Some members of the older generations, blamed this lack of access to home ownership on the perceived increase spending on luxury consumables despite the affect (even assuming that premise is true) being much less significant than the increase in house prices compared to median salaries.

in 1970 in the USA a median-priced home cost roughly 2.4 times the median annual family income, In the United States in 2025, the national median home price-to-income ratio is approximately 5.0 to 5.1 times.

Millennials and younger would therefore have to waste 200% of their salary for them to be to blame for their inability to buy property.

It ties into the age old "The younger generation are worse than my generation argument" which has always been popular but by whose logic the apes were the greatest generation

“When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn't buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each. We're at a point now where the expectations of younger people are very, very high. They want to eat out every day, they want travel to Europe every year.”
Australian mogul Tim Gurner on 60 Minutes Australia, 2017


“A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages…chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements … they require out-door exercises–not this sort of mental gladiatorship.”
Scientific American July, 1858

deewayne2003 said:

“Brainwashed….. product of children being taught that actions don’t have consequences?”

While I appreciate you’re compassion, this is basically the “avocado toast is keeping you from busy a house” type of argument, because mentally ill people jumping into animal enclosures at zoos has been documented in news papers for well over a hundred years.

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What are mentally ill people doing at such a dangerous place like a zoo? Shouldn’t they have a guardian/care taker if they aren’t stable minded?

45-70guy said:

What are mentally ill people doing at such a dangerous place like a zoo? Shouldn’t they have a guardian/care taker if they aren’t stable minded?

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Maybe like depression or bipolar it wasn't visible or obvious

Sad but there we go. A man jumps into tiger enclosure and gets mauled to death. 1+1=2

Not the tigers fault and I don't blame the zoo (I assume it had signs up "Don't feed the animals"

idiot101 said:

Go on then, I'll take a shot at this.

Its a reference to the false causality between the rise of popularity of avocado toast (representative of differing spending habits) and the ability to the younger generation to afford home ownership as today's battlefield of the age-old pass-time of saying "us oldies are better than the woke, weedy youths of today"

Millennials and younger generations eat larger amounts of avocado on toast than boomers or older, and in most cases find it much more difficult to get onto the housing market.

Some members of the older generations, blamed this lack of access to home ownership on the perceived increase spending on luxury consumables despite the affect (even assuming that premise is true) being much less significant than the increase in house prices compared to median salaries.

in 1970 in the USA a median-priced home cost roughly 2.4 times the median annual family income, In the United States in 2025, the national median home price-to-income ratio is approximately 5.0 to 5.1 times.

Millennials and younger would therefore have to waste 200% of their salary for them to be to blame for their inability to buy property.

It ties into the age old "The younger generation are worse than my generation argument" which has always been popular but by whose logic the apes were the greatest generation

“When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn't buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each. We're at a point now where the expectations of younger people are very, very high. They want to eat out every day, they want travel to Europe every year.”
Australian mogul Tim Gurner on 60 Minutes Australia, 2017


“A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages…chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements … they require out-door exercises–not this sort of mental gladiatorship.”
Scientific American July, 1858

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I do love the references to the housing market and us millennials. I am a millennial but I feel left out. Moving and buying land and cabins where no one wanted to live was my secret.
Now everyone and their brother wants to live here and work from home and eat advanced toast lol. I need to move further north.

idiot101 said:

Maybe like depression or bipolar it wasn't visible or obvious

Sad but there we go. A man jumps into tiger enclosure and gets mauled to death. 1+1=2

Not the tigers fault and I don't blame the zoo (I assume it had signs up "Don't feed the animals"

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That could be true but weird that it would go unnoticed right up to the point of jumping into a tiger pen to play.

mark-hunter said:

So, tiger man eaters they try to tranquilize and relocate to zoo.

Then, in zoo, when tiger attacks someone they shoot him?

And in a same time, tranquilizing is much easier in zoo, then in real jungle environment.

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Well I hear you. I think it is a question of time. In a zoo you only have few seconds or minutes to take any action before the victim is dead. Whereas in the wild you are still running against time in case of a maneater but not so acute as in a zoo attack. Plus I think the dart takes some time to take effect, which can mean life and death. IMO ofcourse.

You can't fix stupid.....

idiot101 said:

Go on then, I'll take a shot at this.

Its a reference to the false causality between the rise of popularity of avocado toast (representative of differing spending habits) and the ability to the younger generation to afford home ownership as today's battlefield of the age-old pass-time of saying "us oldies are better than the woke, weedy youths of today"

Millennials and younger generations eat larger amounts of avocado on toast than boomers or older, and in most cases find it much more difficult to get onto the housing market.

Some members of the older generations, blamed this lack of access to home ownership on the perceived increase spending on luxury consumables despite the affect (even assuming that premise is true) being much less significant than the increase in house prices compared to median salaries.

in 1970 in the USA a median-priced home cost roughly 2.4 times the median annual family income, In the United States in 2025, the national median home price-to-income ratio is approximately 5.0 to 5.1 times.

Millennials and younger would therefore have to waste 200% of their salary for them to be to blame for their inability to buy property.

It ties into the age old "The younger generation are worse than my generation argument" which has always been popular but by whose logic the apes were the greatest generation

“When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn't buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each. We're at a point now where the expectations of younger people are very, very high. They want to eat out every day, they want travel to Europe every year.”
Australian mogul Tim Gurner on 60 Minutes Australia, 2017


“A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages…chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements … they require out-door exercises–not this sort of mental gladiatorship.”
Scientific American July, 1858

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Gotcha.
I think the issue on that topic reallly is gate keeping by boomers. They climbed the post war ladder and pulled it up after them. And i think avg coffee is closer to $7. Boomers never had to be frugal because the cost of living and earnings were alot less skewed.
You could support a family one one income with just a high school diploma and buy a modest home.

Most the younger generations are barely scraping by and can barely afford rent wich also has gone up alot. When 30% of your gross income goes just to rent it doesnt leave alot of wiggle room
And im not the struggling demographic but i work with alot of that demographic and boomers being in health care.

Its deffinetly an intereating dynamic

farmer_john said:

I dont get the advocado toast house argument whats that about?

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Boomers saying young people can’t buy $450K starter homes @ 7.5% because they spend all their money on avocado toast, star bucks, ect……

You’re pulled the ladder up comment hits the nail on the head.

The houses they bought during Reagan and brag about paying 12% interest should cost $170k today adjusted for inflation instead of $480K; so you explain to them that if they wanted to know the modern struggle they would have to go back in time and buy 3 houses in 1986…….

The concept that someone younger than them is struggling more than they had to is a direct threat to their mindset of being the hardest working generation in history and the massive amount of wealth accumulated is due ONLY to their hard work and has NOTHING to do with the economy they were handed by previous generations.

“these kids are poor because they spend all their money on Avocado toast!….. and get off my lawn!!!!!!!”

Dave Ramsey is an excellent example….

“Paid $60k for my first house but it didn’t have a washer dryer, no stove, no refrigerator!”

Ok your house back in the day didn’t come with $2k worth of appliances and that explains the 2.75X adjusted price difference…… OK Boomer, sure it does!

deewayne2003 said:

Boomers saying young people can’t buy $450K starter homes @ 7.5% because they spend all their money on avocado toast, star bucks, ect……

You’re pulled the ladder up comment hits the nail on the head.

The houses they bought during Reagan and brag about paying 12% interest should cost $170k today adjusted for inflation instead of $480K; so you explain to them that if they wanted to know the modern struggle they would have to go back in time and buy 3 houses in 1986…….

The concept that someone younger than them is struggling more than they had to is a direct threat to their mindset of being the hardest working generation in history and the massive amount of wealth accumulated is due ONLY to their hard work and has NOTHING to do with the economy they were handed by previous generations.

“these kids are poor because they spend all their money on Avocado toast!….. and get off my lawn!!!!!!!”

Dave Ramsey is an excellent example….

“Paid $60k for my first house but it didn’t have a washer dryer, no stove, no refrigerator!”

Ok your house back in the day didn’t come with $2k worth of appliances and that explains the 2.75X adjusted price difference…… OK Boomer, sure it does!

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Just a swlfish generation overall. Most would rather take it all to the grave than help their kids move than ball forward.
My first kids going to be born soon and sucession planning starts soon as they can walk and talk and learn.
Not going to wait till there 50-60 for them to start going maybe ill get something to help in life.

Regardless of ones feelings (legitimate or not) on a generational divide, crapping the other side doesn't affect change or heal a schism. Depending on the audience you'll either be shouting into a void or reinforcing the opinion of 'the opposition'.

Lets get back to the point in question:
What's your pick of rifle calibre for a cage match with a man eating tiger and how would you mount it after you shoot it and get knighted by the king?

I briefly saw about 20 seconds of the young man interacting with a tiger, and it seemed very much he was mentally ill. Definitely not a normal response. Most people would’ve been trying to get away from the tiger, or lying down playing dead.

Betterinthebush said:

This may be an unpopular opinion, but here goes anyway.

This is so sad to watch. I’ve got no idea what was going through this kids mind. It’s easy to jump to a conclusion about him and I’m not immune from doing just that.

This boy (my opinion here..) was conditioned (brainwashed), maybe willingly, into believing that he could spiritually overpower with love a beast that has been hardwired to never pass up an easy meal. This boy dying by his own decision is the product of children being taught that actions don’t have consequences if they are initiated by emotions that make oneself feel superior for having the boldness to commence that action.

Such a horror. The whole affair.

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Look at the volume of idiots who are hammered by Bison in Yellowstone every year.

There's a vastly bigger difference between prime John Jones or Mike Tyson and a tiger, or just about any megafauna, than there is between John Jones and a toddler.

farmer_john said:

You could support a family one one income with just a high school diploma and buy a modest home.

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The most harmful development was gradual inclusion of the average citizens' private-sector remuneration as taxable "income". A study of the 1907-1913 newspaper stories and Congressional Record hasn't a single reference to the proposed "income" tax affecting the working man. In fact, the tax was championed as tax relief for the common citizen (who, through excises and duties, fully paid for the Federal Government), by finally taxing the "plutocrats" who paid no taxes on their empires. The "Tax the Fat Cats!" campaign naturally had great appeal.

"Don't throw me into that briar patch," howled Brer Rabbit J.P. Morgan et al.

The true goal of the "income" tax was to eventually draw in working paychecks, not just Carnegie's investment profits and capital gains. The real wealth in the USA is not the top 1%, but that of the vast middle class. (Even if the IRS confiscated the property of all centimillionaires and billionaires, it would fund the Government for mere weeks.)

The original 1913 tax threshold was far above the average salary of workers. That, of course, didn't last.

From there, increase the progressive tax rates on capital gains to make inflation the government's confiscatory partner. I.e., a long term capital gain of, say, $100,000 is treated as taxable "income" but that nominal gain is illusory if the dollar had meanwhile drastically shrunk in value. (In truth, what should be taxed is an increase in purchasing power, not accounting evidence of price inflation.) Thus, when you're taxed on price inflation, you're actually paying tax on your existing wealth (since no actual gain in purchasing power had accrued). THIS IS THE RACKET. Direct taxes on property/wealth are prohibited by the Constitution (unless apportioned), but they get around that with the "income" tax on capital gains you actually did not make.

The final insidious goal was to (through a syndrome of economic pressure, inflation, regulations, etc.) force homemaker wives into the workplace. This not only added to the federal coffers, it took her out of the home, straining family life.

Statistically, not a penny of the working wife's paycheck goes to family expenses.
She works to pay off the family's taxes, period. Her husband's take-home pay covers their mortgage, utilities, etc. (If you don't believe, do the math yourself at home.)

The "sin" of the Boomers is not exposing this trillion dollar multigenerational taxing scam by the 1950s, thus saving their children a looming monstrous burden. In fairness to the Boomers, they genuinely didn't understand it then, and they still don't.