Siberian tiger attacks car, runs over farmer in frightening video
A Siberian Tiger that wandered into a Russian village was videotaped attacking a car and then literally running over a female farmer.
A Siberian tiger that wandered into a Russian village from China was videotaped attacking a car, terrifying its occupants, and then literally running over a female farmer as villagers attempted to scare it away from the area.
The incident occurred in the village of Turiy Rog in the Russian province of Primary on the northwestern shore of Lake Khanka. The video was posted on Facebook by the Amur Tiger Center in Russia.
The footage shows the 200-pound-plus Siberian tiger charging the vehicle and the woman driver turning to flee. You can hear the panic in their voices. You can also hear the collision.
“She crumpled [read: dented] the side of the car, and after that inflicted no serious injuries on the woman that she pounced on,” a spokesperson from the Amur Tiger Center told the Mirror.
The woman farmer was lucky the Siberian tiger simply kept on running.
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“The [people] behaved, to put it mildly, not entirely correctly: they tried to drive the tiger away, chasing him in a car, which only provoked the animal to aggression,” the Amur Tiger Center wrote on its Facebook post, as translated by Google Translate.
“Despite the provocations, the tiger showed restraint and answered as correctly as possible. He crumpled one car a little, and carefully laid the woman, who had come out to block his path, on the ground.”
Wildlife specialists arrived on the scene and captured the runaway Siberian tiger. The Star reported that the animal would go through a medical check-up and if deemed healthy, it would be released back into the wild.
The moral to the story, as reported by the Amur Tiger Center: “Do not provoke a large predator and do not try to solve something [by] yourself, call the specialists.”
Generic photo of a Siberian tiger courtesy of Wikipedia Commons; captured Siberian tiger photo courtesy of the Amur Tiger Center.
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