Odd Stories: Big Tigers Cut Loose, Re-penned, in Colorado

Calhan, Colorado - It seems there is no such thing as a perfect security system, even if they involved tigers, one Colorado man found out.

Nick Sculac, the owner of Serenity Springs Wildlife Center, said three of the more than 120 big cats he has were set free. The first of the so-far two break-ins happened near the end of January. In that event the ones responsible climbed a ten-foot high fence lined with barbed wire and cut a hole in three cages big enough to set the tigers free.

“Luckily they were the three tigers we raised and they were nice. We have some other cats that, if they had broken open those cages, that person would have been torn to shreds. He would have been eaten in a heartbeat.”
 

A few days later a man and woman were found sticking their hands into a cougar cage in an attempt to pet the cat. After a short argument with the workers who spotted them, they ran jumped over the fence and escaped in a car.

He said about getting a security system “I never bought one before because I didn’t think I needed it. I didn’t think anyone would be stupid enough to try to come in here.”