I have never heard of anything like this before and I hope the spate of publicity would shame them into never doing this again.
It seems that "officials" at the zoo carried out a fake escaped tiger drill.
A trainer at the zoo, one Shuhei Yamaguchi, 26, went tro work like he does every day... except on this particular morning, he took off all of his clothes and put on a fake tiger suit.
Ohhhh-kayyyy.
He then ran around the zoo trying to scare people, while his co-workers chased after him with nets and guns. I can only hope the guns weren't loaded.
According to reports, Yamaguchi-san (Mister Yamaguchi) was pretending to be a Siberian Tiger that had broken free during an earthquake... at least that was the premise. He ran loose for an hour, while --oh crapo, I just read the rest of the article--over 70 zoo officials raced around with loaded tranquilizer guns, sticks and nets.
Tama Zoo officials felt a practice run like this should come in handy should the big one (earthquake) ever hit the country... because you know, it's more important for 70 zoo employees to chase after a lone tiger that might kill one person rather than help out the survivors of some devastating 6.7 earthquake.. because Tokyo doesn't have many of those stupidly tall skyscrappers. Uh... Tama Zoo officials... that was sarcasm.
Somewhere away from the Tama Zoo,
Andrew Joseph
Today's blog title is sung by: Survivor... hmm, how APPROPRIATE.
PS: As an added bonus, here's a Monty Python skit that is one of my favourites of all time: TIGERSINAFRICA.
PPS: Yes, in the photo above, that's a tiger interrupting me while I try to write this blog. Apparently he escaped from a lunatic asylum.
