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U.S. soldier kills tiger in Baghdad

The night watchman said the soldiers had arrived in military vehicles but were casually dressed and were drinking beer.
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Alright troops, let's get one thing straight: no drinking on or off the job in an occupied country! Lord knows we already look bad enough on the job; please don't make us look like dumbasses off it.
 
I believe there are laws prohibiting killing these animals. It was not self defense. They had ought to be tried under applicable law.
 
Wow... that soldier must think hes a real bad@ass for shooting a tiger with an automatic rifle behind a cage.
 
This wouldn't happen if King George would not have forced these men to OVERSTAY THEIR TOURS... let them come home and get their sanity back! :|
 
Originally posted by: dahunan
This wouldn't happen if King George would not have forced these men to OVERSTAY THEIR TOURS... let them come home and get their sanity back! :|
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Partying and getting drunk at a party afterhours in the zoo?

If this was some ambush by guerilla forces in the middle of the night and you happen to kill a couple innocent people spraying, yes I'd understand. But getting drunk at a zoo? There is absolutely no room for excuse that I can see. The tiger was locked up in his cage, and a soldier tried to feed it. The result? He gets clawed. Then he comes back and shots it dead.
 
He's a US soldier. He'll never be tried for what he did. At most he'll get a slap on the wrist. After all, it's *JUST* an animal, and he had to save his mentally challenged friend, who was being nice and feeding the tirger. Beside, not like US soldiers can be tried under international laws anyway. So, let's just shalk this up as a mercy kill or whatever, and save ourselfs the trouble of thinking about this to much.

heh, I'm kinda surpriced something like this didn't happen sooner.
 
I don't know, just because my buddy is an idiot doesn't mean I wouldn't try to save him from a tiger. And since a tiger could kill me pretty fast, I'd say shooting it would be the only thing to do at that point. Now my question is this, who in the hell decided to throw a party (with a lot of drinking apparently) in a zoo in an occupied country. That's just retarded.
 
Read the article. It didn't say that the tiger was attacking the guy when he shot it, it read like he shot it afterwards.

Alcohol & Guns don't mix.

 
Originally posted by: JackStorm
He's a US soldier. He'll never be tried for what he did. At most he'll get a slap on the wrist. After all, it's *JUST* an animal, and he had to save his mentally challenged friend, who was being nice and feeding the tirger. Beside, not like US soldiers can be tried under international laws anyway. So, let's just shalk this up as a mercy kill or whatever, and save ourselfs the trouble of thinking about this to much.

heh, I'm kinda surpriced something like this didn't happen sooner.
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It is probably happening all the time to Iraqi Civilians.

 
Originally posted by: JackStorm
He's a US soldier. He'll never be tried for what he did. At most he'll get a slap on the wrist. After all, it's *JUST* an animal, and he had to save his mentally challenged friend, who was being nice and feeding the tirger. Beside, not like US soldiers can be tried under international laws anyway. So, let's just shalk this up as a mercy kill or whatever, and save ourselfs the trouble of thinking about this to much.

heh, I'm kinda surpriced something like this didn't happen sooner.
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Wow, you're stupid.

UCMJ is a very strict set of laws, much more strict than any pansy like yourself will ever live under.

ITs a freakin joke for anyone here over 18 to pass judgement on anyone thats actually serving their country overseas right now.
 
You think he knew it was a rare tiger?
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Originally posted by: Tabb
You think he knew it was a rare tiger?
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They are all rare.
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The tiger population is thought to have fallen by about 95 percent since the beginning of the 20th century. These remaining tigers are threatened by many factors, including growing human populations, loss of habitat, illegal hunting (of both tigers and their prey species), and expanded trade in tiger parts used as traditional medicines for treatment of conditions such as arthritis and rheumatism. Tigers are listed as "endangered" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and are also listed on CITES Appendix I.
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Let's hear it for the soldier. I went to the Bronx Zoo with my girlfriend and her cousin the other day. When I passed by the lion area, they started licking their lips.
 
Both guys should be hung but probably helped the tiger in the long run.

No ones doing the species a favor by letting them live in such sh!tty conditions as that.
 
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