This bizarre story from non-bizarre eastern Ohio would appeal to Franz Kafka.
The owner of an animal farm has been found dead (we are not told how he died, and so are free to imagine his own animals attacked him), and many of his animals have escaped. Armed police are driving around in pickup trucks and shooting at “bears, lions, tigers … cheetahs… wolves, giraffes, and camels.”
On Tuesday, commuters reported spotting bears and wolves along I-70.
A surreal tale for Halloween.
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UPDATE: This gets more Kafkaesque by the moment.
The guy opened all the cages and then killed himself.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:10AM
“One of the main problems in keeping a Siberian tiger in an ordinary suburban …”
October 19th, 2011 at 10:38AM
I guess he decided to leave the government entity something to remember him by. 🙁
October 19th, 2011 at 10:44AM
I heard about this from a friend in Ohio who drove her children to school this morning for fear of them getting eaten. Seriously.
October 19th, 2011 at 8:31PM
I think that he was trying to give himself a sort of Viking funeral, only without the burning boat. But he could have torched the house and barn.
I wish that the mountain lions could have escaped to help re-populate the East, but they, like the other animals, were probably zoo-bred and unsure what to do next.