Saturday, September 6, 2008

Putin Saves TV Crew from Siberian Tiger

I was somewhat disappointed to find out that he had actually used a tranquilizer gun to do it. Perhaps it speaks to the man that I, and I'm sure many others, clicked on the link expecting him to have done it with his bare hands.

Then again, blasting a pouncing tiger when no one else even saw it coming is probably harder than point and click, in the first place.

Too bad he's got such a bad rep in this hemisphere, because, you know, it's his fault that that wonderfully weak, poor and corrupt plutocratic freedom-loving Russia of days yore has been replaced by a country that can do more than wank and cry when their interests are sliding down the shitter.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe just a little staged? What are the odds of a world leader walking around with a tranq gun in a research facility?

Epi said...

pretty good, considering this "research facility" is a tiger preserve where they would be daft not to have someone packing some juice at all times, and Putin is the kind of guy who'd get to carry one for shits. he's well known for acting somewhat out of line from your typical G8 stiffs, though the most recent example before this one for me, ironically, is when he got his ass kicked sparring some Judo kids in Japan.

anyway, that entire line of reasoning is about as idiotic as the conclusion you're trying to reach with it. a kneejerkoff reaction on par with voting repub to keep that damn Muslim out of the whitehouse.

it's a sad commentary on warped perspective when every remotely positive or amusing factoid coming from places that have committed the grave offense of acting on their own, reasoned world view instead of gobbling up the shit we feed everyone are so easily rationalized as being some sort of deception.

...and my taking of the bait ends here. see you under the bridge.