WTF?

On Tuesday and Wednesday, outside of Columbus Ohio, a whole lot of people completely lost their minds.

Every organization in the world that has interest in the welfare of animals should stand up and let those people, who completely lost their minds, know that lawsuits will be filed and there will be penalties to pay.

I'm not even an animal person....and I'm totally disgusted.

A short summary of the incident.

A man named Terry Thompson owned a wild animal farm, ranch or preserve, depending on who you ask, for reasons yet unclear, apparently opened the pens, gates and cages and let his exotic collection escape.

The community where he lived is called Zaneyville......or Zanesville if you need exact facts.

After letting his animals loose....he allegedly committed suicide. At 5:30 on Tuesday evening the first 911 call came into dispatch and 24 hours later the following animals were dead from gunshot wounds courtesy of the Muskingum County Sheriff's department.

18 rare Bengal Tigers
6 Black Bears
8 Lionesses
3 Mountain Lions
1 Baboon (who some claim might have been the ringleader)
and a few others yet to be named.

The sheriff's department says all the animals killed were immediately buried on the property.

Zanesville is 55 miles from one of the greatest Zoo's in the world....The Columbus Zoo. (Jack Hanna, famous for Late Night TV guest spots, was formerly the director)

A zoo 55 miles away could have been on the scene in two hours fully loaded with enough tranquilizer guns to stop al-qeada and yet at the end of the day 49 animals were dead and buried.

18 BENGAL TIGERS. The last time I heard there weren't even 18 Bengal Tigers left in India.

How much is a full grown Bengal Tiger worth?

My guess would be $50,000. How much is a Bengal Tiger rug worth? My guess would be......$100,000

WASN'T THERE ONE PERSON ON THAT SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TEAM THAT BROUGHT UP QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT HAVE SAVED MOST OF THE ANIMALS?

Like for example...."Hey Captain Duck....do you think we could trank these things and then sell them to other Zoo's?"

I realize that when the sheriff's rode into the Thompson compound that a few causalities were going to take place.....but the second phone made after the initial 911 all should have been to the Columbus Zoo....and the Zoo people should have arrived with the Sheriff's Department so that people who knew about wild animals would be present. 49 causalities seems high to me....but then again 2500 wings beats per second by a hummingbird also causes me problems.

Getting back to the moment sheriff's arrived at the compound. I visualize a bunch of hunters...... and it's just a wild guess that most of the sheriff's department are probably duck, geese, deer, quail and rabbit hunters....... suddenly having an out of body experience.

IT HAD TO BE THE GREATEST MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES WHEN CAPTAIN DUCK SAID...."GO GET EM BOYS....AND DON'T BRING BACK ANY PRISONERS."

18 BENGAL TIGERS??????????????????????

I realize there is a sidebar story here regarding Mr. Thompson who had recently served a year in the federal penitentiary for gun possession....but I'm finding a few things hard to believe.

Why the Zoo wasn't involved from the first moment?

And are we really suppose to believe that 18 Bengal Tigers are buried on that compound without being skinned? If that's true, then I think we are going to heard some further news on this incident. Like Butch and Ernie and their cousin Jethro from Boogville Arkansas that have just decided to take a little drive up to Zanesville and snatch them some Tiger pelts.

ALONG WITH 10,00 OTHER HUNTERS AROUND THE COUNTRY.....WHO WOULD KILL TO OWN A BENGAL TIGER RUG!

I see an HBO movie with all of them meeting in Zanesville at the same time and watching the fireworks unfold.

There's so much wrong with this story...including the local animal shelter who's spokesperson is named....Terri Wolfe.

49 of the 56 animals were killed. The other seven are being held for questioning but so far they all seem to be blaming the baboon.

Terry Thompson's wife, whose name is Ele' phant claimed that they didn't even have a baboon so authorities think he might have been an outside agitator recently shunned by the Ohio Tea Party.

Of course silly, I made that last thing up.........but this story could get a lot weirder.

18 Bengal Tigers?

Seriously!

Michael Timothy McAlevey