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Aug 2023
20m 36s

28: Tiger

Justin Drown
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The subject of today’s episode is a 26-year-old man named River Steven Rosenquist. He worked at the Naples Zoo in Florida. He was hired to clean gift shops and restrooms. River didn’t work directly for the zoo. He worked for a third-party cleaning party. According to later reports he smelled of alcohol. That evening River chose to climb over a safety enclosure. The enclosure covered with signs warning against this exact act. It’s then that River allegedly stuck his arm through a fence that held a tiger. Eko, the eight years old Malayan tiger, did what tigers do.

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