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Let this be a lesson to all of us: The police can enter your home without a warrant if there's a tiger living in it. And they can probably enter your home sans warrant if there's an alligator, too. We know this because a judge tossed out Antoine Yates' lawsuit against the city; Yates claimed his constitutional rights were violated when the search warrant-less police entered his Harlem apartment to remove his tiger, Ming, and alligator, Al. Judge Signey Stein said that Yates showed extreme chutzpah in trying to sue the city, especially since tigers and alligators are illegal, plus the fact that Ming had bitten Yates in the leg. And the police were trying to keep the public safe by removing the animals. Yeah, if Ming paced around the apartment a couple times, we're sure he could have had enough of a running start to barrel through a wall or something. No word on whether or not Yates carried a stuffed tiger with him in court the way he did when he was sentenced to five months in prison and five years probation in 2004 (Yates really missed Ming!).
And remember when the NY Post bought a tiger cub to show how easy it was buy exotic animals, only to be slapped by the Daily News? Aw, we miss Boomerang. Heck, we just miss being able to write about tigers in city apartments.
Surveillance photograph taken outside Yates' apartment
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Ming looks like a pussycat. Yes, I know it's a tiger but you would think it would look like one of those neglected animals in a petting zoo with mange and matted fur.
Poor kitty.
My friend J was the D.A. on this case.
I think it would be cool to have a regular cat with the fur of a real tiger. who's up for the bio challenge.
In the future, cops will plant tigers just to allow themselves into anyone's apartment.
"A regular cat with the fur of a real tiger" - hee hee. A tabby cat comes pretty close in terms of markings, does it not?
This:
"We both had our freedom, but now we're both caged," he said of himself and Ming the day he was jailed."
Wow. Just, wow. He puts the entire building in danger and has the brass balls to sue the city? Unreal.
*A tabby cat comes pretty close in terms of markings*
yes they do, but i want an orange striped cat... that would be soooo cooool!
"Guy lives with tiger in apartment for years" "Tiger doing what comes naturally bites owner" What's wrong with this narrative people? This twisted-jackass raised a F@#$$% Tiger in his apartment!!!!! He should have been locked-up for that alone, I think all the people in that project should sue him, & the city for allowing him to keep a tiger in his place. What a collossel butt wipe!! Yes I said sue the city . Housing had to know this guy had a tiger in the apartment, The smell alone should have tipped them off.
Cats are very clean. Get him a litter box the size of a mattress and 300lbs of kitty litter a week, and the tiger would've have been fine, save for his innate instinct to tear people limb from limb.
Guess this proves the exotic pet trade is for those with mental problems. Very cruel and very stupid.
That...is a TIGER...in a KITCHEN. A tiger in a kitchen! You just have to love this city.