Roy from 'Siegfried & Roy' mauled by a tiger while on stage.

[Blue_Chill]

(CNN) -- A 9-year-old white tiger attacked Roy Horn of "Siegfried & Roy" during a Friday night performance on the Las Vegas strip -- the magician and trainer's 59th birthday.

Horn was listed as critical Saturday, according to the University Medical Center for emergency surgery's recorded message service, updated at 2:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. ET).

The tiger lunged at Horn's neck about half-way through the show, and dragged him off stage, audience members said. "He looked like a rag doll in his mouth," said Kirk Baser, from Pennsylvania.

source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/10/04/roy.attacked/index.html

I REALLY want to fel bad for this guy, but I just don't. Tigers are not meant to be show attractions. As long as they are used this way this kind of shit will happen.

I know I'm a shitty person for feeling this way but I can't help it.

[mot78]

1. Look for the late-night shows to have a field day

I bet SNL will joke about it tonight on their season premiere.

[opihimoimoi]

8. Well Now, I guess its time to hang up the whip and call it quits.

Get those animals to a breeding farm where they can live out their lives in peace and die a natural death.

We had an incident in Honolulu not long ago. An Abused elephant went beserk, killed the trainer in front of 857586960.008 spectators and went AWOL down to Kakaako where the cops unloaded 857635141006987564 bullets into the thing. Was gruesome. Awful. Yucky. But its the price of entertainment.

Murphy was right. sooner or later....

[JVS]

2. Your headline is of the man bites dog variety

[Blue_Chill]

5. lol thanks for saying so.

I fixed it. hahaha!

[Abe Linkman]

Poor tiger

"Roy from 'Siegfried & Roy' mauled tiger while on stage."

Why Roy, why? What did the tiger do to deserve it?

[Blue_Chill]

7. Damn you all noticed this huh?

I must need some more coffee.

[DonkeyKickAss]

12. Tiger mauling Roy Horn

I heard the Tiger told Roy to "put some ice on it." after the incident.

[Seneca]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=251536&mesg_id=251536

[gristy]

4. Who mauled who? I'm confused...

[Blue_Chill]

6. Yeah I fixed the subject line

Tiger mauled Roy, not the other way around.

[jus_the_facts]

11. he actually did start mauling the tiger first.......

....from what I read...he started hitting the tiger over the head with a microphone...then the tiger attacked him...makes me not feel much pity for him either....as there is NO f'n reason for those animals to be on a f'n stage.....NO F'N REASON!!!!!!!!!:evilfrown:

[demnan]

9. Felines are fierce animals - they are predatory carnavores

Anything larger than a 12- 15 pound domestic cat would really be a handfull for anyone. And domestic cats have been with humans for thousands of years. They are still fierce, they are still untamable, that's why whe love them so much as we turn them over on their bellys to be petted - but leave the big cats alone, they aren't even close to house cats - who are still very wild.

[sventvkg]

10. ya mess with the Bull(Tiger) ya get the horns(teeth)...sucks!

Just a matter of time...Time to retire...He's rich enough.

[kayleybeth]

13. Ouch!

I wouldn't wish that on anyone, but I agree, it's not the tiger's fault.

[mitchum]

14. Maybe the tiger was offended by Roy's gaudy clothing...

Who says that large predatory animals can't have good taste?

[Loyal]

15. I feel bad for him

:(

[FDRrocks]

16. Same here

good luck Roy.