# "Everybody in life makes choices" says idiot who jumped from train into tiger cage **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510 "2012-09-22T17:15:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/21 "2012-09-23T02:33:46Z")
Because he once heard the expression “To ride the Tiger” and wanted to try it. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/22 "2012-09-23T02:38:43Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > My lord, I wonder why he jumped into the tiger compound rather than the lion compound. If you try to jump into the [lion compound](http://photos.zoochat.com/large/dscn1842-183598.jpg) at the Bronx Zoo, you end up at the bottom of a moat. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/23 "2012-09-23T02:43:04Z")
He only said that because he wanted to sound more profound than what he was actually thinking: “Tiger. Cool!” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/24 "2012-09-23T03:31:52Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > My lord, I wonder why he jumped into the tiger compound rather than the lion compound. I saw what you did there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/25 "2012-09-23T03:56:02Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I saw what you did there. 😃 I don’t. Please explain? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/26 "2012-09-23T04:08:56Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I don’t. Please explain? 😕 It’s a reference to [teh crazy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=661555). ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/27 "2012-09-23T04:23:24Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > It’s a reference to [teh crazy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=661555). Oh. Okay, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/28 "2012-09-23T06:49:01Z")
“The tiger did nothing wrong in this episode.” Fuckin’ a. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/29 "2012-09-23T07:06:29Z")
The only blame that can be put on the tiger is failure to complete the job. Darwin’s spirit must be moaning, “Damn! So near and yet so far!” ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/30 "2012-09-23T07:52:32Z")
At least he didn’t say “YOLO”. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/31 "2012-09-23T19:49:51Z")
I _slightly_ feel a bit of reflexive sympathy here, because I know what it’s like to have a big cat use you as a chew toy. But only slightly. At least Mr. Darwin Award acknowledges that it wasn’t the tiger’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/32 "2012-09-24T20:24:02Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I _slightly_ feel a bit of reflexive sympathy here, because I know what it’s like to have a big cat use you as a chew toy. But only slightly. . . Have you told this story here yet? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/33 "2012-09-24T20:30:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Bashuta was returned to a holding area where it usually sleeps at night and will not be euthanized, zoo officials said. Great. And the White House has determined that this was not a terrorist act. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/34 "2012-09-24T20:47:10Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Have you told this story here yet? :eek: Yes. A few times. But to summarize: I went to a “walk with the lion cubs” tourist trap thing in Zimbabwe. It turned out their definition of cub included adolescent lions. These guys were a few weeks from being considered adults even by the program’s standards. The male was described as “frisky” or “feisty” or one of those euphemisms for badly behaved- it seems he’d scratched a tourist or two in the past. Mr. Frisky decided that good behavior was for pussies and that my leg looked like a good chew toy. I suppose there was an element of stupidity for my case as well. Probably the wiser thing to do would have been to leave, although we didn’t find out any of this until we were already right there with the lions, and I think our bus had left and wasn’t going to come back until it was over. But if the Chewed On By Big Cats Club has seating in order of stupidity, Tiger Guy has got to be near the head of the table. Though, like Tiger Guy, I did ask them to please not hurt the lion for being a lion. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/35 "2012-09-24T20:48:57Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > He would have been one with the tiger for a while, but only until the tiger crapped him back out. Well… once a turd, always a turd. Too bad the tiger didn’t clip those family jewels. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/36 "2012-09-25T05:33:18Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > So this guy is part lemur? How the hell did he jump a 16 foot enclosure? How did he survive the fall? I assume the ground is grass? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/37 "2012-09-25T09:58:54Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > How did he survive the fall? I assume the ground is grass? One of the articles noted that the fall caused most of his injuries. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/38 "2012-09-25T15:36:44Z")
You can’t fix stupid. Can’t blame the tiger for trying, though. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/39 "2012-09-25T15:47:10Z")
You can fix stupid --with the right materials and preparation, you can fix up a mighty good meal out of it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510/40 "2012-09-25T16:32:01Z")
The Dalai Lama walks into the zoo cafeteria and says “make me a pizza with a tiger”! No wait, I fucked it up… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-in-life-makes-choices-says-idiot-who-jumped-from-train-into-tiger-cage/635510.md?page=1)