| From: [email protected] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.interest,clari.news.europe
Subject: Drunk Denmark man tries to pet tiger, loses two fingers
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 1:22:22 PDT
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) -- A drunken man who broke into a zoo during
the night because he wanted to stroke a sleeping Siberian tiger was
shocked back to sobriety when the feline lopped off two of his fingers,
police said Thursday.
The 22-year-old man, who broke into the Odense Zoo on Denmark's
middle island of Funen at midnight Tuesday, had been drinking heavily at
a nearby bar, police said.
On his way home, he decided to scale the zoo walls and approach the
tiger's enclosed lair.
``I crouched down and put my hand through the bars to stroke him.
Suddenly he jumped up and grabbed my hand,'' the victim told the Ekstra
Bladet newspaper.
After the tiger took off two fingers, the man managed to withdraw his
hand, re-scale the walls and rush in a taxi to a nearby hospital.
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| Now if that had been in the USA.
Then the man could have successfully sued the cat for damages,
and probably the Zoo as well for something, due to him being
the poor victim of something.
I wonder if next time he might also be to get into the
cage and lock it after him, before disturbing the cat.
Nothing quite like a midnight snack, especially if the
food is served "fresh".
Andy
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| STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- When Gerda Langer got to work at a
hotel in southern Sweden, she heard a voice calling for help -- from
inside a wall.
After a search Sunday, firemen broke open a chimney pipe and
found a 22-year-old man who had been drinking at the Vaxjo City
Hotel bar the previous night, the newspaper Expressen reported.
After one drink too many Saturday night, he took a walk on the
hotel roof and fell 45 feet down the chimney. He landed close to
the bar, but behind the wall.
The man spent nine hours in the chimney before Ms. Langer heard
his calls. When he was pulled out, he was scratched and black with
soot, but quite sober, the report said.
His identity was withheld under Swedish press regulations.
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