Escaped Tiger Recaptured in Abandoned Packard Plant

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Escaped tiger recaptured in old Detroit factory

Here's a radio conversation I'm sorry I missed. Surely some scanner listeners in Detroit heard it though. A film crew at the abandoned Packard plant in Detroit brought in, without permission, a tiger to use in filming. The tiger got loose. A few people set out to recapture the tiger. The video shows that one of them is armed with a Black and Decker hedge trimmer.

Against a tiger.

Good luck with that.

Andy Didorosi shared a video Monday from the escaped tiger's capture in Detroit's old Packard Plant.
By Ben Hooper | Aug. 17, 2015 at 2:05 PM
@oddnewsupi

[shenmue]

1. Yipes

[closeupready]

2. How ******** are these clowns.

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Edited at AngryAmish's request.

[AngryAmish]

4. Why do you use the word suburban as a pejoritive description?

Do you think you are better than people that live in a different place than you?

[closeupready]

5. Oh, are you offended by my comment? Do you want me to censor it?

[AngryAmish]

7. Sure, why not?

[jberryhill]

3. "Where's that crazy dentist when you need him?"

[Auggie]

6. That's so wrong ...

an already frightened animal tormented with a power tool? And in a dump like that? I hope the producers get their collective asses kicked.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. It's not the tiger I'm worried about.

Admittedly, the hedge trimmer does seem to be charged.

[Auggie]

12. Are you referring to the crew or the hedge trimmer?

Seriously, I consider it an option caring for a person's welfare if they knowingly enter into a dangerous or reckless stunt, especially without the proper permits and/or oversights, training and security, or if it poses a danger to any other living thing. Bringing a Tiger to that derelect facility just sounds like a horrible idea to begin with. Broken glass, metal shards, toxic waste ... plus lots of opportunity for it to make a real escape and ending up the target of some over-zealous peace officer's bullet.

This moron taunted a Tiger with a power tool. He's lucky to be alive.

[hifiguy]

20. In a case of electric hedge-trimmer vs. full-grown tiger.

I am going to bet on the tiger 100 times out of 100, and big money.

These bozos are obviously not the brightest bulbs on the marquee.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. Maybe this would help:

[Blue_Tires]

9. Not only was this dumb, the assclown didn't have permission

so the city is going to want a little chat with him...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Watch this guy explore Detroit's abandoned Packard Plant on dirtbike

Watch this guy explore Detroit's abandoned Packard Plant on dirtbike

Jan 20th 2014 at 8:01PM
Jonathon Ramsey

Packard gave up on its automotive plant in Detroit in 1956, but the 3,500,000-square-foot complex of reinforced concrete remains - if only as remains. It is perhaps just as famous for being ruins as it was when it built cars, still attracting plenty of attention from entrepreneurs, paintballers, vandals and urban spelunkers.

Creative types love them some Packard Plant, too, evidenced by the short film produced by Cantini Pictures when they wanted to test out a homemade motorcycle and an aerial drone. The result is a few minutes of "motocross meets the monument."

Check it out in the video below. And in case it isn't obvious, you probably shouldn't try this at home... nor at the Packard plant. For a more traditional history with lots of photos, a piece in the Detroit Free Press can fill you in.

vimeo.com/82595547

What is that tune in the video?

[Orrex]

11. Maybe they were putting a tiger in their tank?

[Corgigal]

13. and he turned his back on a tiger

I guess the tiger wasn't hungry. Insane.

[closeupready]

14. I caught that, too. He did everything wrong, and the tiger must have been fed beforehand.

That's the only way he didn't end up hamburger.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. Really. It's just one thing after another in this clip.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that this video has been viewed a few times by staffers at the Michigan Occupational Safety & Health Administration (MIOSHA).

[closeupready]

17. I know, right? And he actually went at Tony with that prod TWICE!

[kwassa]

16. A Detroit Tiger

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. Photo crew had city permits to bring tiger into Detroit's Packard Plant

Photo crew had city permits to bring tiger into Detroit's Packard Plant

By Ian Thibodeau | [e-mail]
on August 18, 2015 at 9:19 AM, updated August 18, 2015 at 9:23 AM

DETROIT - While employees at the Packard Plant were quick to remove the loose tiger -- and the crew it was with -- from scene Monday, the British photographer who brought the big cat to the city had let the City of Detroit know ahead of time.

According to a report from the Detroit Free Press, the Detroit Police Department was notified by photographer David Yarrow's team that they'd have wild animals on site at the Packard Plant during a photo shoot.

An actual tiger gets loose in Packard Plant in Detroit

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. I've got a tiger by the tail, it's plain to see.

I won't be much when you get through with me.
And I'm losing weight, and I'm turning might pale.
Looks like I've got a tiger by the tail.

I never get enough of this guy: