Because he once heard the expression “To ride the Tiger” and wanted to try it.
If you try to jump into the lion compound at the Bronx Zoo, you end up at the bottom of a moat.
He only said that because he wanted to sound more profound than what he was actually thinking:
“Tiger. Cool!”
I saw what you did there. 
I don’t. Please explain? 
It’s a reference to teh crazy.
Oh. Okay, I guess.
“The tiger did nothing wrong in this episode.”
Fuckin’ a.
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!”
At least he didn’t say “YOLO”.
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.
Have you told this story here yet? :eek:
Great. And the White House has determined that this was not a terrorist act.
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.
Well… once a turd, always a turd. Too bad the tiger didn’t clip those family jewels.
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.
You can’t fix stupid.
Can’t blame the tiger for trying, though.
You can fix stupid --with the right materials and preparation, you can fix up a mighty good meal out of it.
The Dalai Lama walks into the zoo cafeteria and says “make me a pizza with a tiger”!
No wait, I fucked it up…