This is one area where we "Muricans" don't have enough laws. Between the crazies with hundreds of poisonous snakes in their house and dozens of bears, tigers, lions, etc. they constitute a public hazard in some areas. The only thing standing in their way in most cases is local zoning laws. It's one thing if someone lives in BFE and doesn't have a neighbor for 20 miles, but most of these rascals set up shop just outside of small towns. I know of one "zoo" where the guy has lions and tigers, has a criminal record, he and his kids are on drugs and he manages to keep the animals. People there have told me it's eerie to hear a lion roaring 1/4 a mile away from their house knowing its owner is an idiot on drugs.

 

Is this still going on or is it contained now?

Keep your kids in the house, keep your doors locked, travel by vehicle, be armed if legal and possible and stay informed. I am sure those animals are also scared (not that this makes them any less dangerous) and they are not looking for confrontations with humans.

I am sure they will have this wrapped up in no time.

 

Last I saw they had three animals unaccounted for. A wolf, mountain lion and a monkey.

 

If the state would put up half of the taxidermy costs, they could knock this problem out by lunch time.

 

I know who did it :taped:

 

I was thinking more along the lines of

 

****. If I was in Ohio, I'd go monkey hunting. lol

 

............Oh my!

 

Jay and Silent Bob are great

I want to hunt the tiger :

But I would bring it down with a tranquilizer, there is not many tiger's left in
the world.

 

I have read in a few places that there are as many or more tigers in private hands in the US than actually still in the wild worldwide. Estimates I have seen are anything from 5 to 15 thousand in captivity in the US, versus around 4 to 6 thousand in the wild.

Pablo Escobar's escaped Hippo's are breeding away quite happily in Columbia, and will be a threat to locals unless captured or shot. Haven't heard if they have caught them all- last I heard it was over 35......

 

From what was said on the local news tonight. All the animals have been shot dead. They showed the animals all laid out dead on the ground. A safari.

 

Believe it or not this is exactly the kind of thing I've been prepping for ...... lol not really ha ha ..... Lions and tigers and bears, oh my

 

Yeah no kidding! I live pretty close to Dayton. They said they found and shot the Panther a few miles away from where I live! I was like wtf, what if I see that Grizzly bear they keep talking about! Can I shoot it or are they rounding them up?

 

The monkey's got herpes. Crazy **** man

 

Good news, they found the monkey. The bad news is he's running for re-election...

 

everything has been accounted for. They were still missing the monkey but it turned out that one of the other animals had eaten it.
http://www.19actionnews.com/story/15726160/sheriff-two-exotic-animals-still-on-the-loose-a-monkey-and-a-wolf

 

I live about a 30 min from where this took place i heard there was 40 plus animals that got loose 25 shot dead my thinking is if you can get close enough to shoot and kill them you could have tranqulized them.

 

^^^ Until you find a lion eyeballing your daughter in the sand box... Would you still think the same way?? Oh and animals just dont drop when they are shot with a dart like they do when they are on tv. I say the LEO's made the right choice

 

Only question I got is where can I get a hold of one of them Grizzly hides?? Its gettin cold down here and could use a new rug..


All kidding aside those pictures were horrific

 

Good point

 

Makes me wonder how many more animals like this are out there.

and yeah, I thought of 12 Monkeys too, looks like they got that part right; wild annimals from other parts of the world can do pretty well here.
Like wild pigs, Boas, Carp... North America is going to become a lot more interesting someday.

 

So did this guy let the animals go and then commit suicide ?

Animal Liberation people are known to committ extreme acts of violence, in the UK we have seen arson attacks, letter bombs, nasty stuff. Clearly not the case here but they are a concern.

 

So did this guy let the animals go and then commit suicide ?

Yes.

I wonder why he committed suicide? The TV news said he had multiple conflicts with authorities over his animals. I wonder if he had spent a lot of his money on lawyers fees and could no longer keep his animals as a result?

 

Its sad that rare animals were killed for no other reason than some irresponsible dumbass released his "collection" and committed suicide.
Killing all these magnificent creatures was not hunting. They lived in captivity.. Shootin ducks on a pond is all this was. I understand It had to be done and I agree. Hell a lion was hit by a car because he didnt know not to wander into traffic. The entire ordeal was a tragedy not a hunt.
Im not anti hunting by any means. I have killed my fair share of game and put meat in the freezer.
Hunting is used to sustain your family. Every kill I make a prayer is said thanking the Lord for my harvest and forgive me for taking a life.
You wanna kill a grizzly or a lion. Go do it on their turf on their terms.
You will be scared ****less. Killing a grizzly is nothing but days of boredom followed by a few seconds of sheer terror. Im sure lions and tigers are the same.
These were slaughtered predators here. Show some respect!

 

Being retired from a Sheriffs Dept not far from here i can tell you that you are right it is a tragedy, Unfortunately the Deputies are not trained to deal with this type of animal and know that Sheriff Lutz was worried about the publics safety. The S.O will surely be under fire for shooting the animals but imagine if instead of shooting the animals the Deputies were trying to catch them and someone got killed? You know the Department would have been sued for not killing the animals. I loved my job but situations like this where you are damned if you do and damned if you don't i do not miss at all.

 

About 1.5 hours east of me. Sounds like they got all the animals. Most if not all were killed.

 

I have had to help deputies around here gather up horses and cattle, unless they grew up dealing with this they just don't what to do. Police forces cannot train everyone as to how to handle a horse or deal with a cow or..lol capture Lions, Tigers and bears.

I have seen deputies nearly killed trying to catch horses, simply because they do not understand what to do.

I think they did the only sensible thing, trying to capture any of the dangerous exotic animals would have been completely foolish, not to mention the longer they were out the more danger to the public there was.

The spookiest part of all this, is that the animals were not completely wild they had been around people on the preserve meaning they will have a lot less fear of humans making for much greater potential for harm to humans.

If the animal nuts have their way we will have to hire a zoologist onto every police department.... lol.... bullets are a lot cheaper...

 

Monkey still missing. They are starting to think that one of the big cats ate it.

 

I did some digging to try to understand why this guy let his animals loose and commited suicide.

One news article said that the police had been called to the property 30 times with complaints from neighbors. And that he had just been released from prison after serving a year term.

I discover at an NPR news article that he had been in trouble with ATF in 2009. So I looked up the ATF thing and discovered he was charged with weapons violations. "possession of illegal firearms, including machine guns and firearms without serial numbers"

ATF agents seized the illegal weapons while executing a search warrant of Thompson’s property near Zanesville in June, 2008.

"The five-count indictment alleges that Thompson unlawfully possessed five machine guns, failed to register those machine guns, and possessed three firearms without serial numbers. Each count is punishable by up to ten years imprisonment. The indictment also contains two counts seeking forfeiture of the firearms.
An indictment is merely an accusation. All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty."

LINK to the ATF page on this case: http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2.../releases/2009/02/022609-col-zanesville-man-charged-on-firearms-possession.html

This guy is lined up for 50 years in prison but he get's out in 1 year?

Thompson plead guilty: LINK: http://www.justice.gov/usao/ohs/news/2010/04-05-10-Col.pdf

"In November 2009, U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley suppressed the 133 guns and ammunition seized during the raid, stating the execution of the search warrant was unreasonable in many ways." LINK:http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?t=45291

I think I'm getting the picture here. It's the Fast and Furious ATF finally got their man his life sentence.

Who knows? Maybe this guy even had insider info on the Fast and Furious thing that's being investigated? Maybe he didn't commit suicide at all.

 

Talk about over hyped by the media.This happened about 40 minutes from me everyone's carrying on like a nuke went off.The wife was all upset with me when she caught me buck naked with T-bones tied all over my body trying to slip out into the woods with the Saiga 12.Missed out on a free big game hunt!

 

Damn...that's a visual...:xeye: