Wow, It’S Like A Nightmare Come True

[Jahulaye]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5114891/amp/Tiger-shot-dead-Paris-street-escaping-zoo.html

[Prudie]

The nightmare is circuses are still using these fabulous creatures. I'm stunned, an absolute crying shame.

[emmie]

terrible waste, i hate circuses that still use these endangered species.

[jno]

wouldn't happen here, I don't think circuses use animal acts any more. Britain has to make do with lynxes and things, at least until the wolves return.

[Jahulaye]

Talking about animal cruelty, has anyone rid an elephant in Thailand? Well check this out

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/expertvagabond.com/elephants-in-thailand/amp/

[douglas9401]

3 - 1 against Bolton, I think they're back.

[Mamyalynne]

What a tragic end for a beautiful animal.

[emmie]

douglas wrong thread perhaps....

[murraymints]

how sad

[douglas9401]

No emmie, just slightly off colour maybe.

[emmie]

ok mate

[pastafreak]

" The animal has been neutralized..." as if the poor creature has just gone up in a puff of smoke. Couldn't they have tranquilised it? Or was that too risky? Such a senseless loss.

[mikey4444]

BA for Prudie !

[Lie-in King]

Disgraceful, appalling waste of a magnificent creature's life.

[douglas9401]

In a poll taken outside the station, travellers confirmed by a vast majority that they'd rather the tiger was dead than they were being ragdolled on the platform while 'experts' were consulted on what to do.

[Jahulaye]

"Couldn't they have tranquilised it? Or was that too risky? Such a senseless loss.”

No guarantee with tranquillisers, too much and it could kill me the animal, too little and it could enrage the tiger Who then goes to kill a whole bunch of people.

[-Talbot-]

Actually, they got eat 3-2 Douglas.

I would ban this barbaric practice if I were in charge of the EU or some other important organisation.

[Jackdaw33]

Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of having animals in circuses the fact remains that a wild tiger was on the loose in a residential area. Killing it was the only safe option.

[mikey4444]

Jack....alas, you may be right.

[Jahulaye]

In the link it says

“The tiger then entered railway station where it 'threatened rail passengers'

Wouldn’t you just have a heart attack if you went to board a train with a cup of Starbucks coffee thinking about what to have for dinner later when you walked around a corner and was confronted by a pack of fully grown angry tigers, bears or gorillas threatening rail passengers.

The circus needs to quickly review its security before people are killed.

Needless to say if I was in that part of France the next time potentially lethal animals were in the vicinity I’d make sure my home was fully barricaded or make sure I wasn’t there full stop.

[douglas9401]

Apologies for inaccuracy Talbot, it has no place in what I like to call 'comedy'. ;-)