Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

Mal ,'Safe'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Lee - Feb 23, 2005 1:08:13 pm PST #551 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Ooh, I could rent a house for less than I pay now. [link] . Anyone know if the area is liveable?


Kat - Feb 23, 2005 1:08:39 pm PST #552 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

She's following Kevin Spacey around and working on his stuff.

Oh. I meant, she can't get anything good.


§ ita § - Feb 23, 2005 1:08:49 pm PST #553 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The animal was so big that it would take off and be far, far away after being tranked, before it set in.

Larger animals than that have been brought down by tranquiliser guns, I'm sure. What was different here?

I meant, she can't get anything good.

Snap, as the younguns say.


Kat - Feb 23, 2005 1:11:02 pm PST #554 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Lee, the neighborhood is fine and very residential. Sort of a nicerish version of my neighborhood. It's not super close to where you will be working.


lori - Feb 23, 2005 1:11:04 pm PST #555 of 10002

What was different here?

Those larger animals were probably not near schools and freeways.

Similar thing happened in Palo Alto a year or so ago, although it was just a mountain lion and not a how-cool-is-that tiger.

t eta Not that I'm fully buying the kill-first approach, but how much shit would Fish&Game be in if the drunked-up tiger caused a car crash or nibbled on a kid?


Allyson - Feb 23, 2005 1:13:40 pm PST #556 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

What was different here?

It was in a forest. It's not an instantaneous sleep. The animal had been roaming the forest since February 1st and was spotted near a home. Getting shot would have resulted in a spike in adrenaline. Tigers run fast, anyway. Under the thick cover, the animal could have escaped, hid, and recovered before being found. That was the reasoning given, at any rate.


§ ita § - Feb 23, 2005 1:17:19 pm PST #557 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Those larger animals were probably not near schools and freeways.

I'd be surprised if shooting a semi-tranked tiger before it got that far was that hard, but I don't do big game, so I'm just guessing. It's also possible my scale is off -- but I figure if you can trank a rhino, you can trank the much smaller tiger.

Or kill it if it then gets frisky.

::fumbles for pith helmet::

Under the thick cover, the animal could have escaped, hid, and recovered before being found

Thick cover? I need to look at the pics again. I didn't know we had any of that here.


lori - Feb 23, 2005 1:18:45 pm PST #558 of 10002

But like Allyson said, it was in a forest, or at least dense underbrush - not so easy to be shot at like them rhinos in the savannah.


§ ita § - Feb 23, 2005 1:21:29 pm PST #559 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But like Allyson said, it was in a forest

Not in the pictures.


lori - Feb 23, 2005 1:25:23 pm PST #560 of 10002

Dense underbrush. You try walking through chapparal. A SoCal forest would actually have been easier to track him through.