Indians For Guns

This is big news in the UK (for obvious reasons):

http://www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/tig ... g-1.688569

Russell Brand and Katy Perry spent their first night as man and wife surrounded by armed guards after a man-eating tiger gatecrashed their Indian jungle wedding.

The male predator, which has killed three people in the past two years, scaled two walls at the wedding venue after being attracted by the noise and lights at the £300 000 event.

It was finally beaten off by guards as it tried to jump a third wall just 16m from the newlyweds and their 85 guests.

Rapper P Diddy and comic David Baddiel were among those at the £600-a-night resort beside the Ranthambore National Park, one of the world’s most famous tiger reserves.

Brand, 35, and Perry, who turned 26 on Monday, wore traditional Indian dress as they danced with friends and family when the tiger struck at 11pm.

A guard at the hotel said: “Out of nowhere someone started yelling tiger, tiger, tiger.

“All the guards on duty came running and started hitting it with batons and shining powerful torches at it. Thankfully it got scared and ran off.”

Dharmendar Khandal, an expert at the Ranthambore Tiger Project, said: “This is a male tiger who could easily have killed someone.”

Please dont tell me another hunting permit will be issued.

No shooters. There will be No hunting permit issued for this animal. Simply because this one lives and hunts in the jungles of Ranthambore. The three people he has killed over the past two years were , in most probability , trespassing on the Tigers territory ..... hence the benifit of doubt goes to the Tiger.

, why go in his territory and then blame him for his actions. Same as some one trespassing in your farm house and expecting you not to react to it.

I guess the irony part wasnt too obvious.

Guys the irony here is that no-one take the trouble of finding out it Stripes was a MAN EATER or Killer.As P Singh says it has killed 3 people over the past 2 years, the tiger is really a fitness freak and really on a diet , cause once either Stripes or Spots realises how easy and puny prey humans are, they dont back off,tigers have known to kill humans without feeding on them because of the nature of the encounter between Cat and human,those you dont label as Maneaters .Whatever little i can make out is that this Resort is in the range of the Tiger and all this noise got the guy a little curious as being a Cat they are pretty curious,and having killed people earlier it has lost fear of man.In Sunderbans where Humans are a part of the Tigers diet and all the tigers there are habitual maneaters the loss of human life is pretty high.If it was a maneater the loss of human life in and around Ranthambore would have been pretty high and this time Stripes would have had a Rapper or some Gora for dinner,cause then a couple of batons and torches wouldnt have stopped him,nothing short of a 375 Mag would have done the needful.

Amit357 wrote:Guys the irony here is that no-one take the trouble of finding out it Stripes was a MAN EATER or Killer.As P Singh says it has killed 3 people over the past 2 years, the tiger is really a fitness freak and really on a diet , cause once either Stripes or Spots realises how easy and puny prey humans are, they dont back off,tigers have known to kill humans without feeding on them because of the nature of the encounter between Cat and human,those you dont label as Maneaters .Whatever little i can make out is that this Resort is in the range of the Tiger and all this noise got the guy a little curious as being a Cat they are pretty curious,and having killed people earlier it has lost fear of man.In Sunderbans where Humans are a part of the Tigers diet and all the tigers there are habitual maneaters the loss of human life is pretty high.If it was a maneater the loss of human life in and around Ranthambore would have been pretty high and this time Stripes would have had a Rapper or some Gora for dinner,cause then a couple of batons and torches wouldnt have stopped him,nothing short of a 375 Mag would have done the needful.

Shabash mere sher

Hi Shooter didnt get your quote,its either me or got a Winchester 270 in the Model 70 the pre 64 one and was out at my farm,trying it out,still am pretty happy with the results and still a little high RGDS

Amit357 wrote:In Sunderbans where Humans are a part of the Tigers diet and all the tigers there are habitual maneaters

Amit bhai, I am sure you didnt mean "all the tigers"... yes, there are many tiger attacks on humans reported in the Sunderbans, but ALL?

Rahul Bhai,Sunderbans is still the place in this world where tiger is the apex predator,a Tiger will once feed on any creature it finds, from the mighty Wild Boar to the humble crab and humans do form a part of this food chain,it starts from dead bodies of humans who have perished in Typhoons and other storms ,drifting down the Sunderbans on way to the Bay of Bengal which the Tigers find and they do feed on them,all predators in the jungle have to survive and try to eat with the minimum effort envolved in procurring the meal.All animals have the inborn fear of humans but once they loose that fear then you know what happens-----------------.The wives of the people who collect honey or fish the Tiger infested waters of the Sunderbans dress like widows when the menfolk are out there cause they know some wont return.We guys were trying to start an NGO for trying to help and rehablitate the affected people in Sunderbans but the Red Tapeism took the steam out of us and we guys came back,have a first had account of this.AND I MEAN ALL THE TIGERS IN SUNDERBANS_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Hi Shooter didnt get your quote,its either me or got a Winchester 270 in the Model 70 the pre 64 one and was out at my farm,trying it out,still am pretty happy with the results and still a little high

actually i wanted to use but seeing this was a post about sher and that i wanted to applaud you, i used the old generation encouragement shabash mere sher, meaning well done my tiger.

its actually a positive comment.

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in that order ...

I had no idea about this Sunderbans situation.. One learns new things constantly...

Amit 357 is correct. The tigers in the Sunderbans have from time immemorial been maneaters. All tigers there are maneaters or at least potential maneaters. Here they enjoy the immunity (from Govt appointed hunters) which big cats (who turn maneaters elsewhere in the country) do not. The tiger will surely roar longer in the Sunderbans than in any other part of the country.

shooter wrote:This is big news in the UK (for obvious reasons):

http://www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/tig ... g-1.688569

Russell Brand and Katy Perry spent their first night as man and wife surrounded by armed guards after a man-eating tiger gatecrashed their Indian jungle wedding.

The male predator, which has killed three people in the past two years, scaled two walls at the wedding venue after being attracted by the noise and lights at the £300 000 event.

It was finally beaten off by guards as it tried to jump a third wall just 16m from the newlyweds and their 85 guests.

Rapper P Diddy and comic David Baddiel were among those at the £600-a-night resort beside the Ranthambore National Park, one of the world’s most famous tiger reserves.

Brand, 35, and Perry, who turned 26 on Monday, wore traditional Indian dress as they danced with friends and family when the tiger struck at 11pm.

A guard at the hotel said: “Out of nowhere someone started yelling tiger, tiger, tiger.

“All the guards on duty came running and started hitting it with batons and shining powerful torches at it. Thankfully it got scared and ran off.”

Dharmendar Khandal, an expert at the Ranthambore Tiger Project, said: “This is a male tiger who could easily have killed someone.”

Please dont tell me another hunting permit will be issued.

Its the fault of the people who were partying with the loud music there its not the fault of the tiger who did appeared there as he thinks the humans to be trespasser of his own kingdom.

If the tiger had attacked its a good lesson for those individuals ''if you go some others house your voice should not be more than that of the voice of house owner"
Or "you should not dare to challenge the king always" because king is always a king

Hi Rahul bhai,we are planning a trip to Sunderbans in Jan 2011,if you are here do buzz me will take you their,the most admirable thing i have seen in people living their,they still worship the Tiger,even after so much grief is caused by the Tiger, it is still a diety and the villagers blame the poacher who kill the prey of the Tiger for the Maneating habits pocessed by the Tiger.Though some incidents have proven the villagers wrong but still,its admirable.

-- Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:32 pm --

Hi Shooter got the shabash thanks ,didnt get the exclamation after that,like i said maybe its my 270

prashantsingh wrote:The tigers in the Sunderbans have from time immemorial been maneaters. All tigers there are maneaters or at least potential maneaters.

I think this is the correct way to put the statement!!!
Since the topic has turned towards Sunderbans, I thought of posting few points.

Sunderban is one of the most interesting eco-systems, the most interesting and unique habitat of the great cat. The core area is closed for civilians. The villagers are allowed to collect honey and fish in the buffer area, around the core area. However, they need permit for this. If any valid permit holder is killed inside the buffer area, government is compensating for the loss However, emotional compensation by organizing legal hunt to kill the cat is not yet being done, as Prashant Singh points out. However, many such killings are of people without valid permit, lurking around the area.

Nowhere in the world the tiger kills so many humans! Kalyan Chakrabarthi (ex-field director of Sunderbans) once remarked "If a Tiger really wants to kill you, it can take you. There is nothing you can do. Not even a GUN would help". He also remarked of a case where he investigated the death of a guard, where the corpse was found, with the finger in the trigger of the shotgun.

Another obvious reason, why the cats are being poached "much, much lesser" than any other part of the country.

An interesting read would be -- Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans

Maybe, a mystic understanding of the animal will help us to deduce why so much killing is happening, particularly in the area.

@Prashant Singh,

prashantsingh wrote:The tiger will surely roar longer in the Sunderbans than in any other part of the country.

or probably, may I dare say the world?

@Amit357

Amit357 wrote: We guys were trying to start an NGO for trying to help and rehablitate the affected people in Sunderbans

Amit357 wrote: but the Red Tapeism took the steam out of us and we guys came back,have a first had account of this.

Amit357 wrote: AND I MEAN ALL THE TIGERS IN SUNDERBANS_ _ _ _ _ _ _