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know, it's his fault that that wonderfully weak, poor and corrupt plutocratic freedom-loving Russia of days yore has been replaced by a country that can do more than wank and cry when their interests are sliding down the shitter.