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In the wake of the horrific tiger escape resulting in one death and two injuries at the San Francisco Zoo, zoos around the country are examining their tiger exhibit set-ups. Tiger Mountain at the Bronx Zoo has the following set-up, per the Post:

Tiger Mountain is surrounded by a moat about 10 feet wide and is enclosed by a fence that is 15 feet high and has a five-foot overhang. That means that the last five feet slant inward.

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Finally, an update to the story from last year about the tiger that escaped from the Cole Bros. Circus in Queens and tried to run away. When the tiger bounded across the Jackie Robinson Expressway, one car stopped in order not to hit the white Bengal tiger, but that caused a three car pile-up. The drivers of the first car and third cars each filed a $10 million lawsuit against the circus and the city's Parks Department for letting the tiger run rampant. Quisorys Wanda Colon told the Post, "Everything was fine. "It was a nice day out. Suddenly, I saw this tiger a couple of lengths in front of my car, it was right in front of me." Colon's car was rearended, and she required backsurgery, plus a rib removal. And the other lawsuit was filed by an NYPD officer who has been disabled since the accident. Eek - and we thought that that there weren't too many accident from the incident, as it was cute to hear that the tiger was really tired from running around the highways back in the day.

There's a lot going on this weekend, as per usual. While we didn't celebrate Cinco de Mayo last night, nor were we at the New Order show...we are finding ourselves a little bit tired today. We blame the weather and lack of caffeine in our system, so we're hoping the sun will come out and we'll be able to motivate to some of these events: