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tigress kills forgetful keeper

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direct copy and paste from http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=282671

Tigress kills forgetful zookeeper Wednesday Aug 1 11:22 AEST

A tigress in a small city zoo killed a zookeeper who forgot to remove her from her cage before cleaning it, according to China's Xinhua news agency.

Police shot the tigress dead after discovering the zoo's only tranquillizer gun was also inside the cage.

Zhang, a keeper in his 60s, drove a tiger into an inner cage before entering the outer cage at the zoo in a park in Xinyi, in eastern China's Jiangsu province, colleagues told Xinhua.

But he forgot about the tigress who shared the outer cage.

Police evacuated tourists and park workers after Zhang was mauled on Monday.

China has only about 30 tigers left in the wild but keeps over 5,000 in several commercial breeding farms around the country.

Local zoos are often poorly managed. In May this year, a Thai zookeeper was killed while cleaning a tiger's cage on the island province of Hainan.

In February, a tiger killed a six-year-old girl waiting to have her picture taken with the animal at a zoo in southwest China.

Two months later, crocodiles devoured a 9-year-old child who, along with three school friends, had climbed into an enclosure at a holiday park and taunted the reptiles with sticks and catapults.

Submitted on 07/31/2007

Submitted by: virg
Reference: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=282671 1/8/07

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I don't know about you but if my job was to clean out tiger cages I'm pretty sure I'd remember 100% of the time to make sure all the tigers are where they're supposed to be before doing my job. Thanks, Virg!


James said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I usually toss such stories (I feel very sad about the tiger), but this mook really didn't review his basic duties and responsibilities. This must have been REALLY messy! Thanks, Virg!


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