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Originally posted by midwesterngirl
It really was just a matter of time before one of their many animals got pissed off and retaliated.I was more surprised to find out that Roy was 59 years old than that he was mauled.
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Yeah, they are both senior citizens. Siegfried was perfroming as a magician in his early 20's in 1959 or the early 60's. You do the math.
Aside from the "obvious" plastic surgery, I would defy any other 60 year old man to run around in tights and wrestle with 700 pound lions and tigers.
All in all, the attack is a shame. I saw the show about 3 years ago, and it was great. The tigers are beautiful, and it was amazing the tricks they got them to do. I didn't see them hitting the tigers, they used verbal commands, so who knows what happened this time.
The unfortunate thing is that Siegfried and Roy are advocates of saving the big cat population, particualarly the tigers. Apparently there are less than 1000 tigers in the wild today due to poaching. They are supposedly working to reintroduce more tigers into the wild. The fact tigers are facing extinction is truly a shame, because I think they are some of the most beautiful creatures in the wild.