Mexico: More Circus Wreck Escapees
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 7th, 2008
Authorities say three tigers that escaped from a Mexican circus truck were recaptured after police distracted them by throwing them chickens, according to Fox News.
The local newspaper Cambio de Michoacan says the escaped felines holed up in house in the western city of Zitacuaro. When the tigers started breaking down the home’s fence, police lobbed them chickens to eat until a dogcatcher and the animals’ trainer arrived.
An officer at the state police office in Zitacuaro says the tigers were loose for less than an hour. The officer was not authorized to be quoted by name.
The big cats were recaptured Wednesday, November 5, 2008, and taken to a local police station where they were held until their owner agreed to pay for the chickens and damage to the fence.
Meanwhile, in another telling of the tale, western Mexico was in shock on Thursday, November 6, after finding a tiger, which had escaped from a circus, lying on a family’s patio, police said.
The tiger terrified the town of Zitacuaro, in western Michoacan state, as it wandered the streets for an hour and a half before entering a house, a local police officer said.
The tiger ‘went through the house and lay down on the patio’, the officer said. ‘The family was terrified and they hid.’
‘But these tigers are peaceful, they don’t attack’, he added.
A total of three tigers escaped from their circus cages when the doors were left open on Wednesday.
A trainer recovered two of them quickly, using chickens as bait, while the local pound picked up the third tiger after its town excursion.
A bus hit a stray elephant that had escaped from a circus on a central Mexican highway in September, 2008, killing the driver and the animal, according to AFP.
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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Human / animal interactions often end up badly… for the animals. Glad to see that all seem to have survived in this latest incident… except the chickens.
H-m-m-m-m? Considering how many pets may be wandering around out there, guess I will be installing that electric fence to keep those deer out of the backyard/garden (where both the grandparents, and kids like to exercise), after all.
A proverbial circus train wreck variant!