dsee8driver
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What the hell is someone doing keeping a 400 lb Tiger in their back yard with a hole big enough so the dog can go in and play with? Is owning a Tiger an EGO thing nowadays? I have to little ones and I think letting them play in the backyard where the is a tiger, even caged, is like letting him spend the night at Michael Jackson's house. "NO"
MILLERS CREEK, North Carolina (AP) -- A woman's 400-pound Bengal tiger fatally mauled her 10-year-old nephew after pulling him under a fence and into its cage, authorities said.
The boy, Clayton James Eller, was shoveling snow Sunday afternoon near the tiger's cage, an enclosure made of chain link fence that had an opening at the bottom so the family's dog could go in and play, officials said.
"This little boy got too close, and it pulled him under the fence," Coroner Howard Laney said.
The boy's uncle, James Marshall Eller, heard Clayton scream and saw the tiger dragging the boy into its cage. Sheriff Dane Mastin said Eller tried in vain to get the tiger off the boy, then ran and got his gun and shot the tiger to death. But it was too late to save the boy.
The boy's mother, Angela Eller, had left the boy in the care of her sister Ruth Bynum, the tiger's owner, while she went to work, Mastin said. James Eller is the brother of the two women.
Mastin said he wasn't aware of any previous complaints about the tiger
MILLERS CREEK, North Carolina (AP) -- A woman's 400-pound Bengal tiger fatally mauled her 10-year-old nephew after pulling him under a fence and into its cage, authorities said.
The boy, Clayton James Eller, was shoveling snow Sunday afternoon near the tiger's cage, an enclosure made of chain link fence that had an opening at the bottom so the family's dog could go in and play, officials said.
"This little boy got too close, and it pulled him under the fence," Coroner Howard Laney said.
The boy's uncle, James Marshall Eller, heard Clayton scream and saw the tiger dragging the boy into its cage. Sheriff Dane Mastin said Eller tried in vain to get the tiger off the boy, then ran and got his gun and shot the tiger to death. But it was too late to save the boy.
The boy's mother, Angela Eller, had left the boy in the care of her sister Ruth Bynum, the tiger's owner, while she went to work, Mastin said. James Eller is the brother of the two women.
Mastin said he wasn't aware of any previous complaints about the tiger
