Captive Tigers

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What happened in Ohio wasckearly very sad. I am not going to say the police did anything wrong on this one, it was a tough situation. However, this is what really gets me: they now estimate there are 50,000 tigers living in the Us. WTF??? Where the hell are these 50,000? And who is keeping them? Surely we only have 1000-2000 drug lords, a couple hundred Russian mobsters, a handful of athletes dumb enough to do this, and one Mike Tyson... but where the hell are the other 48,000 coming from? Are there regular people out there keeping these things as pets? They say the problem is that they are given as pets when they are "small" but then they grow up to be... well.. freaking lions (I know, who could've seen that one coming?). That 50,000 is far more than there are in the wild (thought to be about 32k). Which means if you want to see a lion, forget Africa, head to Georgia.

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