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Russia's Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger

by mtippett | September 1, 2008 at 12:25 pm

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Man you can't buy publicity like this. Or maybe you can? Who knows what happens in the jungles of the Far East? Either way this is a story that perfectly supports Putin's carefully crafted macho image and it sure beats Bush's brush clearing antics.

Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.

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