In Qatar, a young tiger escaped onto a major highway. The animal was filmed strolling through cars stopped in traffic, while occupants hurriedly closed their windows. The animal, thought to be an escaped pet, nonchalantly strolled off the roadway.
June 27, 2016
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In Qatar, a young tiger escaped onto a major highway. The animal was filmed strolling through cars stopped in traffic, while occupants hurriedly closed their windows. The animal, thought to be an escaped pet, nonchalantly strolled off the roadway.
An Australian woman had a lucky escape when a parking error came close to killing her. The woman was manoeuvring her car into a tight space on a multi-storey car park in Melbourne when the vehicle broke through a barrier and fell nearly 20m to the ground. Witnesses described seeing the car bounce off a building to the rear and then bounce off the car park during its descent. The impacts appear to have slowed the vehicle's fall sufficiently for the woman to survive the incident. She was taken to hospital aft
Traffic in the UK’s second city Birmingham faced an unusual hazard when a sheep escaped. The perturbed animal, more used to country areas than a busy city, ran headlong into traffic in the city. A cyclist, a policeman, a motorcyclist and a number of pedestrians joined in the pursuit. The sheep ran across roads without waiting for traffic to pass by, resulting in several close calls. Eventually the terrified animal ran into a park, where it was cornered and captured by its curiously mixed posse of pursuers.
British holidaymarkers were lucky to avoid being killed when an elephant unexpectedly attacked their car. The pair were visiting the Kruger National Park in South Africa when their VW Polo car was first rammed and then flipped onto its roof by the enraged male elephant. One of the elephant’s tusks pierced the door of the car, seriously injuring the woman passenger and she was taken to hospital after the attack. She recovered from the injury however and was later able to leave after treatment.
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