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    Darwin Award - Zookeeper

    Zoo keeper mauled by tiger 'broke safety rules' | UK news | guardian.co.uk

    First rule of zookeeping, don't walk into the Tigers enclosure.

    #2
    Suicide, by the sound of it

    What a mean trick for a supposed animal lover if so, knowing that the tiger might have been put down
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      #3
      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
      Suicide, by the sound of it

      What a mean trick for a supposed animal lover if so, knowing that the tiger might have been put down
      I thought that as well.
      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        #4
        Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
        Suicide, by the sound of it

        What a mean trick for a supposed animal lover if so, knowing that the tiger might have been put down
        Why would it be put down? It's not a danger to the public?

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          #5
          Originally posted by proggy View Post
          Why would it be put down? It's not a danger to the public?
          It now has a taste for long pig.
          "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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            #6
            Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
            It now has a taste for long pig.
            The zoo have already said they're not putting the tiger down.

            Their take on it is that she knew she shouldn't have been in there and the tiger did what tigers do.

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              #7
              Originally posted by proggy View Post
              Why would it be put down? It's not a danger to the public?
              True, but who knows how far officious health & safety officials or insurance agents might hysterically overreact?

              If it wasn't suicide she had most likely formed the pathetically misguided idea that she'd made friends with the tigers.
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                #8
                Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                True, but who knows how far officious health & safety officials or insurance agents might hysterically overreact?

                If it wasn't suicide she had most likely formed the pathetically misguided idea that she'd made friends with the tigers.
                She'd been watching Life of Pi.

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                  #9
                  She was supposed to be an experienced keeper. I can't imagine she didnt know what was going to happen when she walked through that door. Very sad.

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                    #10
                    Probably just me on CUK, assuming it wasn't suicide, who understands her thinking about nice little animals. Yes, rhinos, elephants, blue wales, white sharks, hippos, lions, tigers, they are are all nice little animals, unlike people, who are all tulipty. In the context of nice little animals, size and teeth have nothing to do with it.

                    Aaaah! what a nice little tiger, you would never bite me would you little tiger? Of course not!
                    bloggoth

                    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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