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A tiger was on the loose in Detroit after it escaped from a photo shoot that was taking place in an abandoned factory.
Photographers had brought the tiger, along with two wolves and a bobcat to include in the shoot, when the big cat escaped.
The shoot, which included a naked woman in a trench coat, was for a British fashion shoot.
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Video of the crew trying to coax the tiger down a stairwell of a deteriorating Packard auto plant was posted on Instagram, where listeners can distinctly hear a roar from the furry escapee.
"I got a call from a friend who asked me to help them get this tiger out of a staircase. He asked me if I had a leafblower, and I said I had a weedwhacker, so he told me to bring that. ... I stopped what I was doing, grabbed my tools and hopped in my truck, because, you know, tiger," Andy Didorosi, 28, tells the Detroit Free Press.
He continued, "I don't know much about tiger logistics, but we were told to be this huge blue tarp monster with the weedwhacker and try to be scary and make loud noises. That just made him angry. You could say he got tiger rage, so we retreated. He was growling the whole time, but I think he just wanted people to leave him alone."
Unfortunately, the weedwhacker had no effect on the tiger.
To make matters worse, the photographer and the crew then left to get some food.
“Then the photographer and his crew left for lunch,” he explains, “They just said: ‘See ya; you guys want anything?’”
Thankfully the trainer was soon able to lure the cat back into its trailer.
Though the owners of the abdanoned building knew, and had given permission, for the photo shoot to happen inside the factory, they were not aware live, wild, animals were going to be part of the project.
"I thought I was looking at a zoo," security guard Anton Ferrell commented, "It was something else. I got on the phone immediately to call the boss. It went well. They left; no problems."
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