Man Pleads Guilty To Keeping Tiger In Apartment

[matcom]

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man who kept a pet tiger in his Harlem apartment pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a charge of reckless endangerment but pledged to try and get the animal back.

Antoine Yates, 31, kept a 400-pound Siberian-Bengal tiger called Ming in his seven-room apartment last October.

"A tiger is a wild animal as a matter of law," Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Budd Goodman said in accepting the plea just as a jury was being chosen in the case.

"If it's not a habitat, if it's not a lab, if it's not a circus, then you can't have a wild animal," Goodman said.

The judge indicated Yates would probably receive a sentence of no more than six months in jail and that probation was possible. Sentencing was set for Sept. 16.

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[jukes]

1. asshole

needs to be executed. 7 rooms is not enough turf for a tiger & he risked this animal's sanity for his own perverse gratification.

i'd like to do 3 3minute rounds w/fuckstick, bare-knuckle.


love your weirdass stories, matty!