Zoo Animals Stage Mass Escape

[Yazata]

Not only has the capital of the Republic of Georgia suffered extensive flooding, the animals in the city's large zoo took advantage of the destruction to stage a mass break-out.

Locals were warned to stay off the streets, as lions, tigers, bears and wolves moved through city streets.

Some of the animals have been recaptured and others have been shot. Here's a news story that features many photos of a rather docile-appearing hippo that was wandering the streets and was eventually bagged with a tranquilizer dart. There's a photo of a bear trying to makes its way through flood debris and another cornered atop a second floor window air-conditioner. There's a dead lion, apprantly shot. There's also a photo of a truck full of dead wolves, probably shot by police or soldiers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...reets.html

[C C]

Didn't know that CBS had as long an arm as the CIA, SIS, SVR, Mossad, etc when comes to promoting their new TV events. The premiere of James Patterson's "Zoo" takes place on June 30.

[Yazata]

Officals have been telling the residents of Tblisi that all of the dangerous animals like lions, tiger, bears and wolves, have been either captured or shot.

It wasn't true.

This morning, a group of workers entered a warehouse and a white tiger jumped at a 40 year old warehouseman's throat and killed him. This is apparently the first human fatality attributable to an escaped animal.

The tiger ran away in one direction as the rest of the workers were running in the other direction, but police caught up with animal and shot it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...s-man.html

[Magical Realist]

Didn't know that CBS had as long an arm as the CIA, SIS, SVR, Mossad, etc when comes to promoting their new TV events. The premiere of James Patterson's "Zoo" takes place on June 30.

All of this is also suspiciously timed with the growing movement to release caged animals from zoos. Here in Portland people are protesting the penning of elephants, even though the zoo recently constructed a more spacious pen with an indoor air conditioned building.Yes, Portlanders protest everything. They have free range parks in Oregon for wildlife, and elephants would supposedly fair there much better. I haven't been to a zoo in some time due to the imprisonment aspect of it all. Chimpanzees in a glassed room with roped tires and fake trees just seems wrong.