Petting a tiger = not brilliant!

This happened at my local zoo, the Henry Doorly Zoo of Omaha. Some people are just plain stupid.

If that had been a Detroit Tiger (or a Detroit Lion) they would have only had their hand licked.

I was at a zoo in Florida one day (as a visitor, not as an exhibit!, lol) out in front of one of the monkey cages. This roughly 12 year old girl was teasing this monkey by putting her ice cream cone up to the bars and pulling it back. The monkey just sat there, blithely ignoring her. She put it in a bit closer - the monkey ignored her. One more time and.... SNAP, the monkey's hand went faster than the eye could see. One half second later the monkey was in the back of the cage happily chomping on his new ice cream ball and the girl was standing there stunned, holding an empty cone. We laughed our asses off. - the dummy had it coming.

Another time I was in a pet store that had two parrots on open perches in the middle of the store. This stupid kid was poking at one of the parrots with his finger. I essed up alongside the kid and quietly said, "Young man, are you aware that parrots can exert a force of about 300 pounds with their beaks?". He quickly pulled his finger back and said, "Uh, no...". He then looked at the perch, much of which the parrot had basically reduced to matchsticks with an ashen look on his face!

Animals don't have to be big to do damage.

Darwin was right

Warhawks that was cold. But the truth usual is. But the Pistons are 3-0!