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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,822
    being India, what hasnt been brought up is are they Hindu? If so then killing anything would be out of the question. Though I dont know about asking authorities to do this , would this be against their faith?
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  • oysterjar
    oysterjar NH Posts: 1,235
    edited February 2014
    mickeyrat said:

    oysterjar said:

    backseatLover12 said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:


    So taking it back to the situation in India... can we reasonably expect to weigh in on those people's concern for safety? These people are doing everyday things like working when they are getting snatched by a tiger.

    I understand that the tiger is just doing what a tiger will do, but if it is me and mine that are under threat of attack, I'm probably not leaning towards conservation as much as I'm leaning towards personal safety.

    Don't get me wrong- I'm not suggesting a wholesale slaughter of tigers; but I am suggesting that the situation is slightly more problematic for those people living with the real threat than it is for us. I'm just not sure it is our place to accept one person dying per month as natural when it might be natural to counter such a threat with some form of action taken as a measure of self-preservation.

    It's complicated.

    So, is the tiger in human territory or is it us in tiger territory? Isn't that the first problem to address?

    In this situation I don't believe that it is a matter of who is on what property. If there is an animal that is attacking and killing humans it must be dealt with. Although I would hate to see it get killed I could see why it could happen, as defense. There are other ways to deal with "nuisance" animals such as trapping. I have seen and had bears trapped and removed from my property without harm, which is what I would like to see happen. [b]Is it really our fault that predators don't have the comprehensive skills to not attack us and at that point is it not ok to defend ourselves by potentially killing it? I am not willing to give my life to animal for the sake of crossing its path, or it crossing mine.[/b]
    but human animals have the intelligence(it would seem) to not live in or go to an area where other predators roam.
    The article states that over 7 weeks the tiger has roamed more than 120 miles. I live in middle NH and the Atlantic Ocean is closer than that. It is less a matter of locality and more a predator that has found a heard that it can pick off members when it wants. The members of the communities in which it is stalking are dirt floor poor and have no other life or way to escape. These families have lived there for generations, as the article tells, and number of people attacked is well above the norm. The tiger is also no longer afraid of the humans. Taking your assumption about where to live and go, these third world farmers have no choice or place to go. It is not a matter of intelligence.
    Wind this thing up.

  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,822
    If it cant been seen trapped or hunted I wonder how they can be sure that same tiger roamed that far?

    Rather simplistic but humans can stop fucking and procreating if where they are is that difficult.
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
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    mickeyrat said:

    If it cant been seen trapped or hunted I wonder how they can be sure that same tiger roamed that far?

    Rather simplistic but humans can stop fucking and procreating if where they are is that difficult.

    They are identifying the animal through its paw mark left at the scene.
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  • oysterjar
    oysterjar NH Posts: 1,235
    mickeyrat said:

    If it cant been seen trapped or hunted I wonder how they can be sure that same tiger roamed that far?

    Rather simplistic but humans can stop fucking and procreating if where they are is that difficult.

    That wouldn't change the fact that there is a tiger hunting people in the places the live now. They didn't just build a mega-plex in the middle of tiger haven. They have been there a while...Procreating would only stop future children from being eaten, possibly.
    Wind this thing up.

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,777
    Oh, I thought this was going to be a thread about my sister. HA! :D
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Does anybody here remember when the tiger jumped over its enclosure in the San Francisco zoo and killed those teens that were teasing it?

    After it killed the first teen, it got up and trailed the other two to kill them as well. It passed by 'typical' prey such as warthogs to finish the job it was intending: to work those kids over for pissing it off.

    1. The enclosure proved to be inadequate- think of how many people passed by harm's way prior to the tiger's determined escape.

    2. Don't mess with tigers. If you piss one off... you better be really fast.

    3. Think of the shock that those three teens must have felt when the tiger climbed over the fence supposed to safeguard them.

    4. Think of the smile that crossed the tiger's face as he cleared the hurdle that separated him form his tormentors.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2011/02/tiger-maul-teens-san-francisco-zoo-provoked-report.html
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,822
    We must also consider the natural prey of tigers and where did THAT go? Could be a cause of this tiger hunting humans. At least in part.
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  • hedonist
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    PJ_Soul said:

    Oh, I thought this was going to be a thread about my sister. HA! :D

    :))

    Thirty Bills, I remember when that happened at the zoo, and remember thinking (wrong as some may say) that those shits had no business treating an animal like that, and they paid the price for their stupidity and cruelty.
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
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    hedonist said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    Oh, I thought this was going to be a thread about my sister. HA! :D

    :))

    Thirty Bills, I remember when that happened at the zoo, and remember thinking (wrong as some may say) that those shits had no business treating an animal like that, and they paid the price for their stupidity and cruelty.
    You won't get an argument from me here.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,777
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    hedonist said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    Oh, I thought this was going to be a thread about my sister. HA! :D

    :))

    Thirty Bills, I remember when that happened at the zoo, and remember thinking (wrong as some may say) that those shits had no business treating an animal like that, and they paid the price for their stupidity and cruelty.
    You won't get an argument from me here.
    That was also my first thought.
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