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Naples Zoo Tiger Attack


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This Zoo is just maybe 12 minutes from me in my city and has made world wide news now. A not so smart individual that was third party contractor at the zoo and only supposed to be just cleaning restrooms and the gift shop jumped a fence to get close to a tiger enclosure and the tiger grabbed his arm through the fence.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/us/florida-naples-zoo-tiger-attacks-man/index.html

 

This is our county's sheriff office which was the first responder on the scene and he had to shoot the tiger to get it to release the individual's arm. This is the body cam footage, IT IS GRAPHIC IN NATURE SO VIEWER DICSCRETION ADVISED: https://www.facebook.com/colliersheriff/posts/284953813657397?__cft__[0]=AZWP1YgP4YVOHhRS-3TqElFiQ8OrhvR1HFOeVMsXVi8UcNEvecKHiA71GphGSD0qf0MdJPqresbyIQZ-Gj6mAr3-ge_Nbyq19lzVPiL5Tg3ylsE633sXz7eVkGgIv06g2kxxwzqOzniZIl7A1_nEe4OiR_x9rs_Yzqpi8zHQ9jJ8oz6bMTXpAwnycN6NIQ1UeNM&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

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1 hour ago, KiwiStarChief said:

And the poor tiger has to die because of his stupidity!

That tiger was critically endangered too 😕. Stupid people, cant leave these animals alone. It’s not a house cat. 

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1 hour ago, JUSTA6 said:

No Taser?  Pepper spray?  Whatta shame.   

Sheriff asked for a tranc dart gun. Zoo didn’t have one available because the zoo wasn’t open to the public at the time but even then, it doesn’t take effect for some time on large animals like this when they’re riled up so the guy could have died in that time. (That policy likely gonna change)

I have no idea if a taser or pepper spray would be effective but I don’t think the sheriff was in a position to wait if he didn’t think so. Which, even though I feel so sorry for the animal as it wasn’t his fault, shooting in that scenario is the right move as who knows what damage was done to the human and if he’d survive going through a taser or pepper spray attempt.

I, personally, think it would be more than fair to have that guy wait for a progression attempt in this scenario as he did something utterly wrong that resulted in an animals death but I don’t think that would be the right call in terms of saving human life.

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