Another one bites the dust

Some tomfool of an idiot jumped into the white tigers' exhibit yesterday.

The visitors got scared, the zoo personnel worried, the tigers stressed and the zoo now has a first black mark on its safety records. All thanks to stupidity.

Oh yes, the guy died, of course.

The newspaper refers to him as a victim, but I prefer to think of him as the perpetrator. Just like all those people who jump onto MRT tracks.

I'm only thankful the shooters didn't arrive in time to kill the tigers and that the zoo is just enough to see that it completely wasn't the tigers' fault. It's one thing to cage up cats and place them in a world of mice, but if a mouse chooses to wander in, nobody can help it.

If any of the tigers got killed for such a self-centered weenie I would have a lot more to say. Why doesn't the zoo use tranquilizers anyway? Or maybe they do and it wasn't mentioned?

I don't think he deserved to die, but I think he certainly asked for it.

Which is precisely the whole problem. Looks like even zoo cleaners need psychologists. Help, I feel inferior to that tiger. He gets his exhibit cleaned by people just like me. Only, I clean for people, not animals. But anyway, it's not fair and I'm going to go make him eat me!

Haish. I feel a bit sorry for him. I feel even sorrier for his family. I would be so ashamed and guilty as his family, in addition to grieving over the loss.


Even Tama-chan is pretty scary as a tame tiger. Being set on by three wild ones is really quite frightening.

But Reputation, as the Duke of Calabria told the Duchess of Malfi, is never found twice. Thanks to this mentally unstable person, the zoo has 'shook hands with Reputation/And made him invisible'.

So long.

P.S. Anybody knows how greyish-green eyes look like?