If
you read any news at all, you probably know that over in my neck of the
woods a Siberian tiger named Tatiana escaped from her
enclosure/cage/cell and killed 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr., then
seriously wounded two other young men. Best guess so far is that she jumped over the wall
erected to keep her and her kind away from the humans, tore out the
boy's throat, then tracked his two companions and cornered them near
the cafe. Police, who responded to the call that an animal had escaped,
found Tatiana on top of one of the boys. They distracted her with
patrol car lights, then opened fire with .40-caliber handguns, firing
an unknown number of rounds and killing her.
The attack has
raised a bunch of questions, including speculation about whether the
boys taunted the tiger...
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