Crime News: Escaped Siberian tiger chooses to fight it out in Cut and Shoot, TX
chest...@my-dejanews.com
Texas. They killed a hog and attacked a pet dog, then hid in the pine
forests around this town near Houston. Heavily armed humans shot one tiger
on Sunday. They found the second one Monday. Heroically, the tiger charged
them all when it was caught, dying in a blaze of gunfire. A moment of
silence for these two animal heroes, the Cut-and-Shoot Tigers.
Escaped tiger gunned down in Texas
CUT AND SHOOT, Texas (Reuters) - A Siberian tiger that escaped from a pen and
hid in nearby woods was shot to death Monday by heavily armed police.
Police said searchers using hunting dogs found the rare tiger, then killed it
when it charged them. They had hoped to tranquilize it, but were carrying
rifles and shotguns in case they could not.
``Once it charged...they had to shoot it,'' said animal control officer Larry
Melton. ``Nobody wanted to shoot it.''
The tiger was one of two that escaped from a pen at a Cut And Shoot home on
Sunday when a caretaker left the pen open.
The tigers terrorized neighbors by killing a hog and attacking a dog. One cat
was shot to death on Sunday afternoon and the other escaped into the pine
forests surrounding Cut And Shoot, which is about 25 miles north of Houston.
The tigers' owner had a permit to keep the animals, officials said.
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Barbrien
Shoot, TX
From: chest...@my-dejanews.com
Date: Tue, Nov 10, 1998 1:53 PM
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If people would just leave animals alone and stop dragging them out of their
native habitat and putting them in "pens" (ugh!) ......................
barbara
MIckey Mouse wears a Dan Quayle watch.
chest...@my-dejanews.com
analysis of the psychos) from the Society for the Prevention of Human Cruelty
and the Tiger Anti-Defamation Society.
HOUSTON CHRONICLE ARCHIVES
Searchers kill 2nd escaped tiger in thicket near Cut andShoot
By PAUL McKAY
Staff
CUT AND SHOOT - The second of two tigers that escaped from a cage in a rural
neighborhood was shot to death Monday by searchers who said they had no
choice.
[One classic characteristic of human psychopathology is the belief they can
magically "change" truth by re-describing it to their liking. Clearly, the
humans did have choices: a) Not keep the tiger in a pen; b) Leave the tiger
alone; c) Tranquilize the tiger; d) Leave the area; e) Shoot the tiger to
death.]
The 500-pound Siberian female, which had eluded searchers for more than 30
hours, was killed by six shotgun blasts after charging toward one of her
pursuers in a thicket, authorities said. The animal was killed about one-half
mile from the compound that was her home off Waukegan Road in east Montgomery
County.
[Note: a "compound" is an enclosure designed to keep something in against
its will. Such things exist only in the human community, which uses them to
imprison humans as well as other species.]
She and a male Siberian had gotten free about 6:30 a.m. Sunday after slipping
past the caretaker who had entered their cage to feed them, authorities said.
["Caretaker" is a human euphemism for prison guard. Humans who become
"caretakers" are not necessarily evil-intentioned, but they, like ants, will
mindlessly obey the dictates of their society, sometimes to the point of
destroying their cares and occasionally even to the point of
self-destruction.]
The male, weighing almost 700 pounds, was shot and killed later Sunday in the
yard of homeowner Nathan Miles.
[Apparently just for trespassing. Note humans do not respect the territorial
rights of animals, nor animals' right to kill humans who refuse to respect
those territorial rights. Note also how inferior humans are, in that most
animals will give warning to a territorial intruder and not necessarily kill.
Of course, no animals keep other animals prisoner, so comparisons of
territorial behavior between humans and other species are moot.]
Miles said he, his wife and their six children watched from inside their
mobile home as the tiger mauled one of their 200-pound hogs before county
animal control officer Jim Blount shot the escaped beast four times with a
shotgun.
[Note the possessive pathology. The humans believe it was THEIR 200-pound
hog. They OWNED it because they PURCHASED it from another HUMAN or because
they had kept it prisoner since its birth; The HOG had no say in the matter.
Note also the pathology of the humans' attitude toward a tiger trespassing
on their territory: The response was instant murder. Note also the human
subjects' outrage at the tiger for mauling a 200-pound hog, depriving its
human owners of the chance to maul and consume it themselves. However, in
the following passage, the humans claim they did not kill the tiger because
it mauled the hog but rather because it was a threat to their own young.
This would almost pass for animal logic except for the suspicious assumption
that the tiger doesn't have a right to attack humans who are trying to
imprison and kill it.]
The wounded hog ran into the surrounding woods and has not been found, Miles
said. "I don't really care about the hog because a hog can always be
replaced," he said.
[Human psychopathology in overt form: The hog exists only in terms of its
use to the human. A turkey, chicken, cow or another hog could easily replace
the hog on the human dinner table., therefore it is of no matter to the human
"owner" that the hog has been mauled by a tiger and is off in the woods
suffering.]
"What concerns me is that one of my kids could have been outside and gotten
mauled."
[To understand this prejudiced thinking, one must understand the strange
hierarchies that inhabit human thought processes. Of course, all animals
have some hierarchical thought, but none carry it to the pathological
extremes that humans do. Human hierarchies are not rationally explainable,
but are often centered around emotionality, entertainment and concepts of
beauty. To a human, a human life is much more important than the life of any
other species while the human is providing more emotional comfort,
entertainment and beauty. This is not to say humans don't destroy their own,
merely that they do so when their emotion, entertainment and beauty
hierarchies are better served by the destruction of a human than by the
preservation of one.]
The second tiger turned out to be more elusive as law enforcement officers
and scores of gun-wielding volunteers with tracking dogs kept her confined to
a 30-acre thicket across the street from Miles' home.
["Scores of gun-wielding volunteers" conjures up images of rednecks with
coolers of beer on an entertainingly bloodthirsty outing. Were the phrases
"YeeeHaw!" and "Here, kitty, kitty" heard in the thicket that day? Probably
so.]
Around 3 p.m. Monday, six shots boomed in the dense woods before a group of
searchers emerged with the felled animal stretched across the back of an
all-terrain vehicle.
Scott Kurtz, a 25-year-old logger who had joined the hunt, said he was trying
to protect himself when he shot the charging creature in the face.
[Note the inherent pathologies in this description. The human kills trees
for a living. Moreover, the phrases "joined the hunt" and "protecting
himself" do not create any cognitive dissonance in his mind. The tiger was
being hunted by humans, humans who were determined to keep it imprisoned.
Humans were pointing guns at it and had their dog-minions baying at it. Who
has the right to protect itself in this position? Clearly, the tiger has the
preemiinent right of self-protection in this situation. And just as clearly,
the human, a decidedly inferior species, is unable to recognize this. This
is a distubing indication of profound psychopathology in the human, who
reflects much of his species.]
"When I shot her, she just turned around and started running in another
direction before the rest of the people in the group finished her off," Kurtz
said.
[Note again, the psychopathology inherent in the humans' descriptions of the
event. They claim they are merely defending themselves, and yet at many
stages along the way they acknowledge the tiger is fleeing from them.]
"We had her surrounded under a tree and we were waiting for somebody to show
up with a (tranquilizer) gun, but she came out charging right at me. "I just
reacted," he said. "I'd rather it could have come out of the woods alive.
It's a beautiful animal."
[Once again, the psychopathology of humans comes to the fore. First of all
the statement that the animal should have lived because it is "a beautiful
animal" derives from the hierarchy of beauty carried to a typically
pathological human extreme. Secondly, had the humans really wanted the tiger
to "come out of the woods alive," they would have waited for the tranquilizer
gun before they surrounded the tiger. Thus, their statements of their
sentiments are intended to assure themselves of their own self-image. They
are clearly denying that they hunted down the tiger largely for
entertainment, and just as clearly from their self-denial, that is exactly
what they did.]
Indeed, residents of the sparsely populated neighborhood - many of whom had
remained holed up in their homes with their children while the tiger was free
- drifted to the intersection where the lifeless animal was on display to
marvel at the tiger 's beauty and to snap pictures.
[And, if human behavior is predictable, they then went to the local saloon
to swap stories and guzzle fermented beverages. Note again the subtle
pathology inherent in these accounts -- everything is from the point of view
of the humans. A classic sign of serious narcissism and sociopathy.]
While the homeowners expressed regret over the deaths of both tigers, they
also spoke of relief that they would no longer have to be prisoners in their
own homes.
[The psychopathology in these statements is fairly obvious. Humans complain
of being held "prisoner" in their own homes, but think nothing of imprisoning
a tiger or a hog. Then there is the customary expression of regret, designed
solely to repair any harm to the humans' self-image caused by their own
actions. The tigers clearly do not benefit from it.]
Sheriff's Lt. Larry Melton confirmed that a cougar that escaped from the same
compound last year was never found.
[One has gotten away. This should offer hope to the rest of us.]
"It's one thing for a cougar to run off and not get found, because cougars
are indigenous to the woods in this part of Texas," Melton said. "It's
another thing for a tiger to be loose.
[Another example of irrational thinking in the human subjects. They consider
it "wrong" for a tiger to be free in south Texas woods because tigers are not
indigenous to the area. But they see nothing wrong with tigers imprisoned in
south Texas cages, though tigers are not indigenous to south Texas cages.]
"It's too bad she had to be killed," he said. "We had spread out and had been
trying to get her to move toward a baited trap. When she charged that young
man, there wasn't anything else to do."
[Classic verbal rationalizing by a perpetrator, ignoring all the things the
perps did to put their victim in a position where it had to charge. This is
known as "writing your own script."]
Melton said the owner of the tigers, Reginald "Lefty" Parr, 47, of Houston,
has a federal permit for the two that were killed and a Bengal tiger that did
not escape from the compound, which is guarded by about 15 Rottweiler dogs.
[Subjects are again engaging in rationalizing, adulterated with bizarre,
magical thought. The human has obtained a "written permit" from other
humans, and thus has "permission" to hold the animals prisoner. The animal
prisoners have no say in the matter. Compare to the human male who has
"permission" to assault human females due to their sexually-oriented attire,
or the human group perps who assault outcasts because they have been given
"permission" by the culture of their societies, no matter how obviously
immoral the act itself is. Humans, evidently, are champing at the bit to
harm someone or something -- much more so than the wild animals they encage
-- and eagerly looking for anything they can twist into "permission" to
commit harm.]
Authorities said the second escaped tiger , which never ventured very far
into the woods from her home, had mauled one of the dogs overnight. The dog
reportedly was in good condition after being treated by a veterinarian Monday
morning.
[Classic human narcissism is evident in this paragraph. The humans have
enslaved one species, dogs, to fight another. Compare to the 16th-century
human perps known as "Conquistadors," who forced conquered humans to fight
other Latin American tribes for the sake of the Conquistadors' conquest of
the region. Compare also to human perps who believe other people are mere
symbols in the equations of their own personal needs, regardless of whether
those purposes be sexual, economic, physical or psychological, regardless of
the will of the other individual, and regardless of any fair quid pro quo.]
Parr, who did not emerge from the compound after the tiger was killed, could
not be reached for comment.
"He's down there crying his eyes out," Melton said.
Blount said it had not yet been determined whether criminal charges or civil
action will be filed in connection with the escapes.
[Evidently, in the human way of thinking, for a prisoner/slave to escape is a
crime, and to allow a prisoner/slave to escape also a crime. Imprisonment
and killing are not crimes, at least when practiced by humans on other
species or outcast humans. From this, it should be clear that it is HUMANS
who should be kept confined in compounds.]
Andrea Ramsay
anthropomorphize animals in order to dehumanize people is flawed by your
inability to prove the characteristics and thought processes which you
ascribe to animals.
chest...@my-dejanews.com
ara...@feist.com wrote:
> Well, yours is an interesting thesis, but your attempts to
> anthropomorphize animals in order to dehumanize people is flawed by your
> inability to prove the characteristics and thought processes which you
> ascribe to animals.
The proof is self-evident. If cages must be used to keep the animal,
obviously the animal would not stay without the cages, ergo the animal's will
is not to stay in the cage. Other animal thought processes are obvious from
the animals' behavior, as are the humans' thought processes from theirs.
Cliff and Linda Griffith
> [Note: a "compound" is an enclosure designed to keep something in against
> its will. Such things exist only in the human community, which uses them to
> imprison humans as well as other species.]
No, a compound is merely an enclosed space with a building or group of
buildings within it. We "chose" to live in a compound while we were
waiting for on-base housing, and the arrangement made me feel rather
safe.
Linda