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Lions and tigers and prayers! Oh my!

by dunkelberg | September 16, 2008 at 01:25 pm | 199 views | 2 comments | 14 recommendations

Seems there are some rather different hurricane victims giving authorities problems in Texas.

Tiger roaming hurricane-ravaged streets in Texas
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GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities busy trying to clean up after Hurricane Ike have a new problem on their hands: There's a tiger loose.

A county official said Tuesday that the animal somehow left its enclosure at an exotic pets center in Crystal Beach. Animal experts are coming in to try and catch the tiger.

Crystal Beach is on Bolivar Peninsula. The area is one of the hardest-hit by Ike.

The news follows reports of a lion holed up in a Baptist church with its owner on Bolivar Peninsula as well as livestock and other animals roaming amid Hurricane Ike's wreckage.

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at 14:38 on September 16th, 2008

dunkelberg, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Awww, you never think about the animal victims.

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at 15:16 on September 16th, 2008

dunkelberg, I like this story. It's good stuff. There was a quote from County Judge Jim Yarbrough that they were "trying to stay away from it", but then refused to say where the tiger was located. We thought Boris Johnson, Mayor of London was a buffoon, but...my! my!

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"It's an issue we are dealing with," he tells reporters. "When you think you've seen everything you find something else."

Yarbrough wouldn't describe the tiger as tame, but he says the animal is well-known to the local community.

Update at 2:06 p.m. ET: The Associated Press says the animal escaped from a sanctuary for exotic pets.

"I understand he's hungry ... so we're staying away from him," Yarbrough says.