It says here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3166010.stm
Tiger found in Harlem flat
A US police sniper has accomplished a daring operation in an urban
housing complex - sedating and removing a 350-pound (160 kg) Bengal
tiger from a New York flat.
Police were alerted to go to the flat - in a 21-storey block in the
Harlem area after the animal's owner, Antoine Yates, checked into
hospital with bites he said were caused by a pit bull.
When they arrived at the scene, they found a three-to-five-foot-long
(1-1.5m) caiman alligator as well.
The animals have been temporarily taken to an animal care centre.
Mr Yates was meanwhile arrested in Philadelphia and police said he
would be charged with "reckless endangerment".
Commando-style
Police spokesman Raymond Kelly said two callers had directed them to
the exact address - and they had confirmed the existence of the
orange-and-white tiger after cutting a hole through the door.
After evacuating the building, they trained a camera to observe the
movement of the animal through a window and policeman Martin Duffy
abseiled to the fifth floor with a tranquiliser gun.
This is an only-in-New-York story
Raymond Kelly
police spokesman
"I saw him eye to eye, to say the least," Mr Duffy was quoted as
saying by the Associated Press news agency. "He charged twice and I
shot him."
Police then went into the five-bedroom flat and tied the sedated tiger
to a stretcher before carrying it away.
It was then they came across the caiman - and carried it away too.
"This is an only-in-New-York story," police spokesman Kelly said.
Police suspected Mr Yates of having kept the tiger in his flat since
it was a cub.
It appears to have been one of an estimated 10,000 tigers kept by
private citizens in America - that is more than remain in the wild.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/3166010.stm
Published: 2003/10/05 15:46:23 GMT
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