Guess what? I made the Metro Times list of The 7 Top Social Media Jokes About The Packard Plant’s Tiger Shoot with my witty Gallery 555 comment.
For those of you who don’t know the context, our friend Andy Didorosi was called to the Packard plant this morning to help a buddy of his capture a tiger which had been brought to Detroit by a British photographer. Said tiger apparently got loose during the photo shoot, and made his way up to a fourth floor stairway of the long abandoned plant, at which point the crew, perhaps fearing for their own lives, decided to hire local talent to “help get him back to his crate.” Andy, as I understand it, was asked to bring anything that might scare a tiger. He arrived with a weedwhacker, and was handed a blue tarp. The idea of the photographer was apparently that Andy and his friend would get beneath the tarp, with the weedwacker, and approach the tiger, like a loudly buzzing monster, forcing him back downstairs.
“I don’t know much about tiger logistics,” Andy told the Detroit Free Press, “but we were told to be this huge blue tarp monster with the weedwhacker and try to be scary and make loud noises. That just made him angry. You could say he got tiger rage, so we retreated.” When asked why he would be part of something like this, Andy apparently responded, “I don’t support loose crazy animals in our city.”
A spokeswoman for the new owners of the Packard plant said the photographer had rented the facility, but neglected to tell them that mean-eating jungle beasts would be released on the property. Apparently, when they found out, the photo shoot was shut down. The tiger, we’re told, is OK.
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An earlier article I read mentioned that the photographer had an animal handler with him. If that’s the case, why didn’t the animal handler get the tiger back in the cage?
It’s national news.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/17/actual_tiger_in_detroit_auto_plant_abandoned_factory_site_of_ridiculous.html
Guess what? You also made Deadline Detroit’s “13 Clever Tweets and Posts About Detroit’s Packard Plant Tiger,” where your’s is the second quip: http://bit.ly/1HTCHdm
I know I was the last mentioned in the Metro Times list, but I think they were counting down to number one.
I was kidding earlier, but, given this Facebook comment from Michael Jackman at the Metro Times yesterday, I think I could argue that I did in fact win yesterday’s competition.
“As usual, Mark Maynard comes up with the best riff on today’s hot news item.”
I love Detroit, but there are sections that should be walled off and filled with tigers.
The city knew animals would be brought into the Packard Plant. The photographer had a permit.
Read more:
http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2015/08/18/city-of-detroit-approved-permits-for-tiger-that-got-loose-at-packard-plant/
Call Exxon, experts at putting tigers in tanks, at least before the merger.
The whole thing is now animated!
http://us.tomonews.net/tiger-on-the-loose-after-escaping-ruin-porn-photoshoot-in-detroit–265024750600192
There are now t-shirts.
http://www.tigerwatch15.com/