USDA Fails to Find Cause of Attack on Horn

[ConfuZed]

I'm posting this because there is a certain line in this story that is a real riot :P


(06-28) 13:32 PDT LAS VEGAS, (AP) --

The tiger-was-hungry theory was ruled out. And there was no proof that the animal was deliberately provoked by someone in the audience, or that a terrorist sprayed it with a behavior-altering scent, or that it was unhinged by a woman with a beehive hairdo.

But federal investigators still do not know what led a Bengal tiger to attack illusionist Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy during a performance nearly two years ago.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's final report — dated Sept. 28, and consisting of the Mirage hotel-casino's internal investigation, a Las Vegas police probe and witness statements — was obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request...<More>

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/28/national/w105439D97.DTL

[XemaSab]

1. Maybe wild animals

aren't tame, or easily domesticable, and that's why they're called "wild" animals?

[MissB]

2. Now why didn't they think of that?

:evilgrin:

[RC]

3. Why doesn't someone track down

Claude Balls, the retired lion tamer and ask him. I sure he has some ideas about this.