Tiger rips off woman's arm at Oklahoma animal park

[marmar]

A tiger tore the arm off a woman working at an exotic animal park in Oklahoma on Saturday morning, local officials said.

Witnesses said the woman was trying to either place or remove a lock on a smaller cage that was holding the tiger at the Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park in Wynnewood, Okla., Garvin County Undersheriff Jim Mullett said in a statement.

The woman was airlifted to the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City, where she is undergoing surgery, Mullett said. The incident happened at 10 a.m. Central Time, the zoo said in a statement posted on its Facebook page.

Park owner Joe Schreibvogel posted a statement on Facebook saying the worker "placed her hand inside an adult male tiger cage. She was wearing a large goose down jacket which got bunched up inside the cage wire not allowing her to get her hand back outside the cage wire fast enough and the tiger grabbed her hand pulling her left arm through a 4-inch square hole." ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20131006/NEWS07/310060139/Tiger-rips-off-woman-s-arm-zoo

[xchrom]

1. o my god. i hope she is ok. nt

[magical thyme]

4. she did not lose her arm...the thread (and article) title is wrong

The police initially thought it was ripped off. They were mistaken.

http://www.ky3.com/news/nation/Oklahoma-zoo-tiger-mauls-employee-s-arm/-/21049024/22295854/-/6btbj8/-/index.html

(CNN) -
"Doctors were able to save the arm of an Oklahoma zoo worker after a tiger bit it Saturday, according to the zoo's Facebook page."

[Nine]

2. The zoo says the arm was not ripped off and that docs were able to repair it.

Glad about that. https://www.facebook.com/GWAnimalPark

[MrScorpio]

3. As someone who uses the Detroit Tigers logo as an avatar, you should post a disclaimer

Our favorite baseball team would never rip a woman's arm off.

That's a fact