Tigers are interesting critters: Siegfried and Roy demonstrated that they can never truly be tamed. The other thing about them is that they can jump really, really high. Both points make the decision to have the Jiangxi Elite Children Arts Troupe stage a tightrope walk over a Siberian tiger enclosure at the Changzhou Yancheng Zoo a truly terrible idea.
As the picture shows, there are three people on the wire: a guy on a bicycle, a guy on a ladder hanging from the bicycle and three-year-old high-wire prodigy Xiayon. Safety precautions were taken; the safety line connecting Xiayon to the wire is clearly visible. But when there are tigers involved there are always other variables to consider.
Weird Asia News reports that, to the horror of the spectators below, Xiayon was nearly knocked from the high-wire by a gust of wind early in the stunt. As can be seen in the picture the tiger came within a whisker of devouring the guy on the ladder, who may or may not have been hanging around the same height as Xiayon would have been had she taken a tumble.
Zhang Shenwen, the leader of the troupe, apparently expressed no regrets over the stunt, making this is one of those occasions where one sort of hopes for the Chinese government to react in the manner for which it is famous.
[Images: Daily Mail]
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