We had a thread about "End of an Era - Ringling Brothers Circus to close after 146 years"
but it is locked...

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...0601935/m/4500035714

in a strange turn of events, one of their tigers got out and, ended up perishing. Others ran into other travel issues. How on earth this happened is beyond me. If you're an animal handler, you're an animal handler. I guess when you are bankrupt, you can no longer afford the best handlers, so stuff happens.

Odd story...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.5a45c20ea322

It was still dark as Billy Farley turned his delivery truck off Interstate 75 onto the Jodeco Road exit south of Atlanta. His headlights caught a figure striding down the ramp toward the highway.

“At first, I thought maybe there was a huge, very, very large dog,” Farley recalled. “As I got up on it, I realized it was a tiger.”

In disbelief, Farley hit his brakes and called 911. His was one of at least three such calls on that Wednesday morning last month, records show, and the more than dozen police officers who rushed to the area indeed found an exotic predator. They tried using their vehicles to herd the cat up the off-ramp, but it jumped a guard rail and retreated into an adjacent neighborhood. They watched it slink around houses, lie down among bushes, slip behind a dumpster.

Finally, after the tiger attacked a dachshund in a backyard around 6 a.m., police fatally shot it.

Federal officials estimate that at least 5,000 tigers are kept in the United States, many unknown to authorities. Yet this one, Georgia officials would discover, was one of the most famous. Suzy, a 6-year-old Siberian who starred in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus before it folded in May, had escaped from a convoy of trucks carrying her and 14 feline castmates — seven tigers, six lions and one leopard — from Florida to Memphis International Airport. Her handlers had not noticed her absence..

More at link...

Edited a Mistake...

As an interesting thread drift.....
Well, interesting to me at least.

I am in a book ,”Wars of Heaven” by Richard Curry.
Well my name is in a book...and I own a circus.
Now, my name is by no means common. Especially since it is my lifelong nickname and last name. It was very odd to run across it. I even sent the author an email asking how he came up with the names for his characters. I never got a reply.
I bought the book on Kindle just because. It is a collection of stories that are sometimes loosely connected. Overall, I found it quite depressing.

Anyway, with just a bit of research, y’all can know my name. Not that it’s a big secret....

Now, back to our regular forum programming....

quote:

Originally posted by radioman:
In a strange turn of events, some of their tigers got out and, sadly some ended up perishing.

According to that article, only one got out and was subsequently shot. Do you have a link to info on additional tigers that escaped and were shot?

^^^ my bad. I fixed it. I read it wrong. Sorry.