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Any job has its risks, and working with tigers is definitely a risky business. However, an employee losing an arm to a tiger is not something that happens often, and you can’t just file it under “risks of the profession.” There was some fishy business going on at Wynnewood Zoo, and definitely negligence on the management’s side.
As if the tiger bite wasn’t horrifying enough, perhaps the worst part was that following the incident, Joe Exotic offered the visitors at the zoo a discount at the gift shop, as if trying to capitalize on the bite or put a bandaid on it. How do you even react to something like that? Even as viewers at home, people weren’t sure how to react.