Lion on the loose

[Mowgli]

First picture of lion on loose in Essex | The Sun |News - The photo that is causing all the fuss!

 

[Hillian1]

The more apposite question to ask the lion hungers...rather than fleeing child/pursuing lion who gets the bullet? Is surely YOU have a gun the Lion is going to eat YOU...who do you shoot?..yourself or the Lion?

I'd shoot the young child, Lion eats child, While Lion is eating child escape.

Ta da.

 

[BHA Swiifty]

I'd shoot the young child, Lion eats child, While Lion is eating child escape.

Ta da.

AND the gunshot could scare the lion away from you aswell as it being distracted by the lion. although i would just shoot in the air so hopefully no-one dies...

 

[Acker79]

First picture of lion on loose in Essex | The Sun |News - The photo that is causing all the fuss!

Sirius Black?!

 

[Hugo Rune]

First picture of lion on loose in Essex | The Sun |News - The photo that is causing all the fuss!

Farm worker Mike Hunt: "It's huge and yellow. I don't want to mess with it"

You could use the same logic on big bird!

 

[perseus]

In America they thought they were going after a Tiger with a tranquilliser dart. The Tiger had other ideas. Anything under 30 metres is a dangerous distance to be in the vicinty of a Lion (without an automatic firing gun). Greater distance for Tigers and Jaguars.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Farm worker Mike Hunt: "It's huge and yellow. I don't want to mess with it"

You could use the same logic on big bird!

Or the Norwich back 4

 

[Hillian1]

Farm worker Mike Hunt: "It's huge and yellow. I don't want to mess with it"

You could use the same logic on big bird!

Mike Hunt?

Made up name shirley?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

If I were the Essex chief of police, I'd order my swat team boyz to arm themselves with some tasers. Although that big pussy would get the shock of it's life, it would live another day and could be returned to it's poor owner whom I imagine is distraught with worry and anguish.

I reckon the Essex chief of police shouldn't lose any sleep knowing you are his rival.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Mike Hunt?

Made up name shirley?

whoops. . . . Wrong GUY

 

[JCL]

First picture of lion on loose in Essex | The Sun |News - The photo that is causing all the fuss!

Wonderful SUN heading under a picture of a lion - "Prowl ... lions usually live in Africa" PMSL!! No Shit Sherlock!...

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

All life is invaluable & should be treasured. I don't really see how me not being here would help the animal kingdom. However if I were confronted with a lion, I would still not want the lion to be shot...

Although I am one of those people who saw that crazy German woman jump into a cage with a polar bear and get severely mauled, with the bear subsequently being shot and my immediate thought was "poor polar bear"

Hopefully the police are planning a strategy how to capture this stunning animal ALIVE in the same way they do armed murderers - and will accept nothing less.

If you had a gun and a lion was trying to chew off your head...you'd shoot it I guarantee. You would shoot it and feel glad about it.

 

[Norman Potting]

Q: What should always accompany you when hiking in Lion/Bear/Honey Badger/other large scary animal of your choice territory.

A: Someone who can't run as fast as you.

 

[glasfryn]

Fine. You go and catch it then.

Seriously: nobody WANTS to shoot an animal, especially not a genuinely magnificent beast like a lion (if this incident does actually turn out to be true). But you have the luxury of being able to sit on a sofa and make that call under no pressure at all. The police (or whoever) don't. They have to protect the public, however fluffy and adorable the threat might be.

this sort of does not equate with most of the police I have met
wonder if the old boy who legally parked and had the tazer used on him in his car or Ian Tomlinson thinks the police are there to protect the public.
the police in this country are becoming like they are in the USA if you have the tools you must somehow justify having them by using them inappropriately
as you intimate I doubt if there is anything in this story nevertheless it turns into a binfest

 

[glasfryn]

All life is invaluable & should be treasured. I don't really see how me not being here would help the animal kingdom. However if I were confronted with a lion, I would still not want the lion to be shot...

Although I am one of those people who saw that crazy German woman jump into a cage with a polar bear and get severely mauled, with the bear subsequently being shot and my immediate thought was "poor polar bear"

Hopefully the police are planning a strategy how to capture this stunning animal ALIVE in the same way they do armed murderers - and will accept nothing less.

anywhere else but on here mate some time ago on here I had a huge binfest about this guy shooting domestic/feral cats and as for your last statement this I doubt although I agree with all your sentiments

 

[WATFORD zero]

Hopefully the police are planning a strategy how to capture this stunning animal ALIVE in the same way they do armed murderers - and will accept nothing less.

Negotiating team armed with Megaphones ?

' Come quietly and we can talk this through ......You're only making it worse for yourself .... etc etc'

 

[Hillian1]

Negotiating team armed with Megaphones ?

' Come quietly and we can talk this through ......You're only making it worse for yourself .... etc etc'

Send in Gaza with a fishing rod, some beer and a chicken curry.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

this sort of does not equate with most of the police I have met
wonder if the old boy who legally parked and had the tazer used on him in his car or Ian Tomlinson thinks the police are there to protect the public.
the police in this country are becoming like they are in the USA if you have the tools you must somehow justify having them by using them inappropriately
as you intimate

That's like me suggesting that because I've seen a few football fans acting like twats, ALL football fans must be turning into twats. I pity you if the only police officers you have ever met were tossers. What are the odds of that eh?

 

[cloud]

if the zoo and circus have denied missing any lions then the options for where it has escaped from must be rather limited.

Apparently 12 people in the UK keep lions as pets
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/30651-twelve-lions-kept-as-pets-in-uk

 

[Hillian1]

That's like me suggesting that because I've seen a few football fans acting like twats, ALL football fans must be turning into twats. I pity you if the only police officers you have ever met were tossers. What are the odds of that eh?

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