I'm not lion about this!!

[lordshipmayhem]

On a Stupidity scale of 1 to 10, this story gets cranked up to 11. I can't believe some idiot thought this was a good idea.

Someone in a reservation just beside Maniwaki, Quebec, was keeping a 150-pound, 2-year-old lion as a pet.

It's loose.

It's hungry.

It's in a part of Canada known for being very heavily forested.

"We don't want to scare the public..." O.o Good luck, officer, although I think the worlds "lion on loose" would render me incapable of rational thinking until you caught it.


Quite the catastrophe.

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[bunnyhero.livejournal.com]

ugh that's terrible :( the poor lion, too. "domesticated" my ass.

i remember reading a news item about a guy who kept a "pet" tiger in his apartment in new york city. what an idiot!

[csi-tokyo3.livejournal.com]

They caught the lion.

... It was a six-month old cub.

Don't ask me *how* that morphed into a two-year old, 150 pound lion that would eat people.

Someone fucked up that story bigtime. *bets on the neighbour who was taking care of it*

[lordshipmayhem.livejournal.com]

I'm still left wondering how anyone could get their mitts on a lion cub.

Lion cubs tend to grow up...

[csi-tokyo3.livejournal.com]

Boomer was in a foster family. His mother had rejected him in a zoo, so a family took him in for a while. They had gone out of town & sent him to a neighbour's. Guess who fucked up there?

[lordshipmayhem.livejournal.com]

"Boomer"?

They named him after the nickname for nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines?

Or after the character on the original 1970's Battlestar Galactica? (Is there a Boomer on the 2007 BG?)