{"id":3201,"date":"2012-09-24T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2012-09-24T19:20:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T23:20:15","slug":"to-be-one-with-a-tiger-in-a-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/to-be-one-with-a-tiger-in-a-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"To be one with a tiger in a cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/23\/nyregion\/trespassing-charges-expected-against-man-who-leapt-into-tiger-habitat-at-bronx-zoo.html?nl=nyregion&amp;emc=ura2_20120923\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The police said on Saturday that they issued a desk appearance ticket for criminal trespass to a man who <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/21\/man-critically-injured-by-tiger-at-bronx-zoo\/?ref=nyregion\">leapt from a monorail<\/a> into a tiger enclosure at the <a title=\"More articles about Bronx Zoo Wildlife Conservation Park\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/b\/bronx_zoo_wildlife_conservation_park\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Bronx Zoo<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Paul J. Browne, the chief police spokesman, said in an e-mail that the man, David Villalobos of Mahopac, N.Y., appeared to have a \u201cpassion for cats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Browne, Mr. Villalobos told investigators that the leap into the enclosure was motivated by a desire to be \u201cone with the tiger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, Mr. Villalobos, 25, got on the Wild Asia Monorail, which glides over about 40 acres of open space, then jumped as it passed the tiger habitat. He cleared a 16-foot fence and landed near a 400-pound Siberian tiger named Bachuta.<\/p>\n<p>Bachuta attacked Mr. Villalobos, who suffered a broken pelvis, a broken right shoulder, a broken right rib, a collapsed lung and a broken right ankle, which was also mauled by the tiger.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Browne said that Mr. Villalobos told the police that the jump caused most of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen an <a title=\"More articles about the New York City Police Department.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/new_york_city_police_department\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">N.Y.P.D.<\/a> sergeant asked Villalobos yesterday why he had jumped into the tiger preserve, he replied that \u2018everyone in life makes choices,\u2019\u00a0\u201d Mr. Browne wrote, adding: \u201cHe recalled being dragged by the tiger by the foot, and afterwards being able to pet the tiger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/21\/man-critically-injured-by-tiger-at-bronx-zoo\/?ref=nyregion\" target=\"_blank\">earlier NYT report<\/a> on the incident:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Villalobos\u2019s Facebook page is filled with tributes to nature and images of tigers and other wild animals. One picture of wolves carries the caption: \u201cLove the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don\u2019t trouble it, don\u2019t harass them, don\u2019t deprive them of their happiness.\u201dMr. Villalobos was in stable condition at Jacobi Medical Center on Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times yesterday: The police said on Saturday that they issued a desk appearance ticket for criminal trespass to a man who leapt from a monorail into a tiger enclosure at the Bronx Zoo on Friday. Paul J. Browne, the chief police spokesman, said in an e-mail that the man, David Villalobos of Mahopac, N.Y., &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/to-be-one-with-a-tiger-in-a-cage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To be one with a tiger in a cage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}