So a tiger walks into a bathroom........

[marmar]

A tiger briefly escaped at the Shrine Circus in Salina, Kan., on Saturday night.

No one was injured, but the tiger did give a woman a fright when the two found themselves face-to-furry-face in the ladies' room.

According to the Salina Journal, Jenna Krehbiel had just finished watching the big cat show when she excused herself to visit the restroom. Around that same time, one of the cats managed to escape and wandered into the restroom ahead of her.

"You don't expect to go in a bathroom door, have it shut behind you and see a tiger walking toward you," Krehbiel said. "I didn't know it was in the bathroom, and I walked in the (open) door, which closed right after I had walked in. I saw the tiger; it was at most two feet in front of me, and I turned around calmly and walked back toward the door. Someone opened the door and said, 'Get out.'" ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/tiger-escapes-circus-wanders-restroom-201504555.html

[xchrom]

1. OOOOOH! WHAT A NICE PRETTY KITTY!

[greytdemocrat]

2. Wow!

That could have gone very badly. Good that it didn't!!

[HERVEPA]

3. There is an easy way to avoid this. Don't go to circuses that use animals.

Training a wild animalto perform tricks, usually by abusive means, is not something to support.

[Cleita]

16. +100

[pipi_k]

19. Each year around

the first week of May, the Shriners Circus comes to a small city near me.

I've never been to a circus. When I was a child, it made me sad.

Now I'm an adult and could go whenever I wanted to.

Except I don't want to.

It hurts me too much to see animals kept in pens and cages, used for the amusement of humans.

[RiffRandell]

29. Exactly.

That's not a form of entertainment; it's cruelty. We will never bring our kids to a circus with animals. After explaining to them why, they don't want to go. It's a horrible existence for these animals forced to perform and it sickens me.

In July 2004, a two-year-old male lion named Clyde died in the Mojave Desert. The animal was contained for six hours in a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus boxcar traveling from Arizona to California. High temperatures in the cars were recorded at a whopping 109°F[2], but the animals in the cars were not provided with water or adequate ventilation. A trainer who complained that Clyde was looking ill was ignored by the conductor and Ringling Brothers employees.[3] Clyde died in Arizona, which requires a one-year renewable exhibiting license for big cats.[4] This license may only be held by exhibitors also holding two years’ Wildlife Holding License.

Clyde was not the Greatest Show on Earth’s first animal victim. According to Circuses.com, elephants are routinely tortured with bull hooks by handlers. California Humane Society workers charged Mark Gebel, a Ringling elephant trainer, with cruelty after he used his bull hook to inflict a large wound to the shoulder of an elephant.[5] A baby elephant had to be euthanized after toppling off a display pedestal and breaking its legs; another drowned in a pond before its frantic mother could reach it.

Link: http://www.animallaw.info/articles/arus2journalanimallaw143.htm

[graham4anything]

4. When you gotta go you gotta go

[ZombieHorde]

30. Ha! nt

[csziggy]

5. Did the tiger leave the seat up?

If so, he was in the wrong restroom!

I like that last comment in the article, "My daughter wanted to know if it had washed its hands," she said. "That was her only concern."

[NoPasaran]

6. I always feel awkward when the tiger tries to make conversation.

[Initech]

24. Or if it's Mike Tyson's tiger.

[WinkyDink]

7. "You don't expect" it?!?! WINNER: "Understatement of the Year."

[malaise]

8. Hilarious subject

Rec

[Berlum]

9. Cue the Buckaroos

[Javaman]

10. "I just came in here to wash my paws, chill".

"it's not like I'm going to eat you...really. Pfft, humans".

[dgibby]

11. Ode to a Tiger

Tiger, Tiger, burning bright,
in the restroom. What a sight!

I went in to wee.
Scared the piss out of me!

[Aerows]

12. LOL!

What a thing to confront when you already have to go.

[dgibby]

13. Tigers are my favorite big cats.

I might have just stayed and petted it (not the smartest thing to do, but I do love them).

[pipi_k]

21. They are

absolutely gorgeous, and they're my favorite big cats too.

Having said that, I think my immediate response would have been:

1. Disbelief at what I was seeing

2. An apology..."Sorry...I didn't know it was occupied".

[LibertyLover]

28. I played with a tiger cub

for an afternoon once. It was great fun. He was about 3 months old and cute as a button. He kept stalking our feet and pouncing. Then his substitute mother, a yellow lab bitch, would come over and scruf him. He liked to be petted on his tummy and purred really hard when you did, although not as much as the lioness we got to pet.

[Sheldon Cooper]

14. I think the bathroom would be the appropriate place for me

because I'm pretty sure I'd need the faciiities after facing that.

[Cleita]

15. Bet she peed in her pants right there. I know I would have. n/t

[Marrah_G]

17. Wow si she lucky!

[SoCalDem]

18. My hometown

[KSstellarcat]

20. My hometown, too!

Salina South, Class of '91.

[SoCalDem]

22. Class of '67

wow I'm old

[Initech]

23. What do tigers dream of when they take their little tiger snooze?

Do they dream of mauling zebras or Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit?
Don't worry your pretty striped head
We're gonna get you back to Tyson and your cozy tiger bed
And then we're gonna find our best friend Doug
And then we're gonna give him a best friend hug
Doug Doug oh Dougie Doug Doug
But if he's been murdered by crystal meth tweakers
Well we're shit out of luck

[KittyWampus]

25. I wonder what animal was waiting in the men's room?

[liberal N proud]

26. To say it scared the shit out of the Ladies might be an understatement.

It might be a good thing they were in the ladies room so the didn't soil their panties.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. If I *already* had to go to the bathroom and found a tiger in the loo...

well, it definitely would be laundry time.

I like tigers.

But not in the bathroom.

[randome]

31. Sure, only ocelots should be treated kindly. Racist!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. I don't want to find ocelots in my bathroom, either.

They should use the litter box like everybody else.

[Coyotl]

32. Out here in the wild world, the big cats just crap on the road.

We find bobcat or cougar scat on the road between houses but rarely see them.

[hfojvt]

33. well it answers that age old question

the lady

or the tiger?

[El Fuego]

34. That was in "The Hangover"!! LOL