quote: The tiger lunged at Horn's neck about half-way through the show, and dragged him off stage, audience members said. "He looked like a rag doll in his mouth," said Kirk Baser, from Pennsylvania.
[ October 04, 2003, 08:16 PM: Message edited by: Pat ]
Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
Why'd you have to put the "white" part. Are you saying that all white things attack magician's neck? Because as a white person I really take offence to that stereotype.
Posted by Pat (Member # 879) on :
I'm deeply sorry. I'll change it.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
That's a bummer. It doesn't sound like he's doing too well. Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
Too bad the kids in the audience had to see this.
I hope he pulls through. People make fun of them all the time, but they've always been very gracious about it.
Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
Ouch...
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Man, I had no idea they'd been together for 45 years. That's damned impressive, considering the "celebrity" factor of their relationship. That's like, one of those incredible hollywood marriages like Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, or Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, or Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. There aren't that many couples that can survive that type of exposure.
And talk about a sucky birthday!
quote:Horn, who turned 59 on Friday, had never been injured during a show before. "Not a scratch, not by an animal," said Bernie Yuman, the duo's longtime manager.
The illusionists signed a lifetime contract with The Mirage in 2001. The German-born pair perform six shows a week, 44 weeks per year and have been onstage in Las Vegas for more than 35 years.
Siegfried and Roy were at sea, working on an ocean liner, when they met in 1957. Siegfried performed the magic tricks, while Roy was his assistant. After suggesting they try to make a cheetah disappear, Roy smuggled one of the animals from a German zoo and used it as part of their act, according to the duo's official Web site.
The pair traveled around Europe, performing for five years before they got their break in a Monte Carlo casino. An agent in the audience, impressed by their show, invited them to Las Vegas. Siegfried and Roy made their debut at the Tropicana hotel-casino in 1967.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20031004/ap_on_re_us/tiger_attack_magician
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
F*** you kitty, ya'r gonna spend the night F*** you kitty, ya'r gonna spend the night F*** you kitty, ya'r gonna spend the night Outside.
Posted by Pat (Member # 879) on :
Looks like Jebus is drunk again. Isn't it Sunday morning over there? Have you no respect for those who've had their throats ripped out?
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
He needs some pettin' and lovin' on his head He needs some pettin' and lovin' on his rain-soaked hide He's circlin' around my ankle He's circlin' around my ankle He needs some pettin' and lovin' on his hide Hey kitty won't you come inside
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Poor guy... I hope he comes out OK.
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
This thread title reminds me of a cat I know. My brother-in-law's family has a cat whose name is, I believe, White Kitty. He's really evil, though, and likes to attack people at random and bite them, so they call him "The White Death". Yeah.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Which, as I learned in Trivial Pursuit Chat, was the term Smallpox was known as in the olden days....
Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
Wow, that bites!
There's a whole debate going on about whether the trainers deserved it for forcing tigers to perform stupid acts all their lives. I say that life (which includes being unabashedly pampered -- have you seen their home + yard? opulent doesn't even begin...) is way better than being extinct, which they almost certainly would be without S&R. By the same token, I don't think any of them would deny that their business has risks. "It's like telling a professional skydiver, hey, you might hit the ground." Comes with the territory, and while that doesn't justify deathwishes against th trainers, it doesn't make the tiger a bad animal.
Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
Yeah, I hope the guy pulls through but I also hope they don't blame the tiger. There's nothing in the job description of tigerhood that says you have to do stage tricks and stuff like that. And being whapped with a microphone? I mean, sheesh, he's a tiger! What did you expect? I feel bad for the guy, though, and hope he lives.
My cat Drive By I adopted when I found her on the side of the road as a kitten after she'd been hit by a car. She turned out to be from a colony of feral cats who apparently lived in the woods nearby. A wild animal is just tempermentally different from a tame animal. Even with all the presumable tame-cat genes that would still be hanging around inside her, Drive By is very wild. She accepts me as her mom, and loves me very much, yet she jumps down and hides when I walk normally into a room (if I don't just creep slowly and softly in) and only comes back out to nuzzle me after I sit down for a while and am still.
When she's sick I can't manage pills or medicine now that she's grown. Thank goodness she's been mostly healthy after her long recovery as a kitten. Once I was able to give her antibiotic shots about four days in a row but by the fifth day she was having no more, and I had to give it up. Dr. George can't even listen to her breathing and heart because she growls constantly while he's got his stethoscope on her. Once when she hid under the bed when he was there to see her, she screamed so loudly when I reached in to get her that it seriously frightened me. She's a small cat but I felt sure she would take my arm off if I tried to reach in and get her out. He said we ought to give it up.
He's been the vet for zoo cats, too, and so we treat Drive By sort of like a small zoo cat. I guess we just won't treat her with anything invasive unless she gets too sick to fight us over it. I routinely joke if he brought the tranquilizer gun whenever he comes to see her.
But this same cat is the most loving, sweet, gentle animal with me at normal times. She likes to curl up on my side when I go to sleep, because she loves the warmth. She purrs and rubs her face on my face and neck, and licks my cheek or nose with her raspy tongue until it feels raw. She adored Brando, and would curl up with him and lick his ears and head for him all the time. It's only that all our dealings must be mutually consensual. Forcing her into a carrier, say, or to swallow a pill or take a shot, is just not something she will accept. She's not someone's property, she's a free being. She does what she sees right, and can't be forced to do things. She belongs to herself. She's free.
When you associate with a wild animal, you understand and accept the risk. If Drive By weighed 1000 pounds and had even more wildness genes in her than she does, I don't think I could possibly think about keeping her. That's why I hope they don't blame the tiger, or destroy it.
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