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- 3gibberish4q57, on 09/01/2008, -20/+457Why does Russia get a superhuman former spy as a leader while we in the US get a guy who nearly choked to death on a pretzel?
- nerddtvg, on 09/01/2008, -15/+183Fake or not, that is bad ass.
- cquinnd, on 09/01/2008, -2/+162Who do you think sent the pretzels?
- rald84, on 09/01/2008, -3/+111but we have a VP who shoots lawyers in the face. i'd call it a wash.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -15/+118I was expecting to see the Onion as the source. I still think this is fake, but I thought that Chad Ocho Cinco was the product of an Onion article too...
- PFCWilliams, on 09/01/2008, -24/+114I'm sorry but I cant help but to think this is a manufactured story to further Vladimir Putin's image as a hero to the Russian public. Until I see concrete proof of the events that took place I will not believe it.
- lazycat, on 09/01/2008, -3/+82Exclusive pictures: http://meignorant.com/putin_kisses_tiger
- wonderchemist, on 09/01/2008, -11/+82Must of been a pro Putin TV crew, otherwise the headline would be "Putin watches in horror as TV crew dies in tiger attack"
- SugarCoatedSalt, on 09/01/2008, -17/+75jesus christ! can he get anymore bad ass?
I am glad the tiger didn't die as well. - inactive, on 09/01/2008, -1/+53ah yes, and has the power to make THEM apologize for it, "thats ballin baby!!"
- fromaworld, on 09/01/2008, -8/+54I love how real news like this takes a day to make it the front page, but 30 anti-Palin stories can show up on the front page in the span of 4 hours.
The usefulness of Digg as some sort of real news aggregate is dropping at an unprecedented rate. - SeventhSon, on 09/01/2008, -3/+45Why did he have a tranquilizer gun?
- NecroSexy, on 09/01/2008, -18/+59Smell that? Propaganda.
- kingofinternet, on 09/01/2008, -0/+40the next thing you know, he'll land on an aircraft carrier and declare mission accomplished in south ossetia.
- dOOBiEx213, on 09/01/2008, -0/+34In United States, pretzel eat you.
- SeventhSon, on 09/01/2008, -1/+35It was actually Castro. He's still a little touchy about the exploding cigar.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -1/+34No Putin wrestled the beast with his bare hands and won. After subdueing the siberian tiger and making a necklace from the creatures teeth he was quoted as saying, "Beat that Dick Cheney."
- geoffg, on 09/01/2008, -3/+35All your breakaway territories are belong to us!
- Stormwern, on 09/01/2008, -3/+35He's a former KGB agent, I'm pretty sure he can take a tiger if he has to.
- secondwheel2, on 09/01/2008, -0/+31It's amazing how 4 times you have replied to comments with
"It's amazing that you're gullible enough to believe that ***** story". - pixarman, on 09/01/2008, -5/+35Fukin A! Capitalist Tigers!
- toomuchfreetime, on 09/01/2008, -1/+29Russia votes for its presidents by how bad-ass they are.
Gorbachev had that bad-ass thing on his head (a mark of the kill), Putin's a bad-ass mofo you shouldn't ***** with, and Medvedev's name means "bear," which is totally bad-ass.
At this rate, our next president is going to be Goro from Mortal Kombat. - alamedaman, on 09/01/2008, -2/+30he later ate the tiger's heart and now wears its pelt as a cape.
- SanFranMan, on 09/01/2008, -4/+31In Soviet Russia the leaders battle for you!
- stonewall123, on 09/01/2008, -8/+34Dammit... you made me shoot milk out of my nose !
- atlquaker, on 09/01/2008, -1/+26Yeah, but immediately after choking he shot the pretzel with a tranquilizer to quell the savage beast!
- bhavinp, on 09/01/2008, -26/+50This is why America should not ***** with Russia.
- Absurdum, on 09/01/2008, -1/+24I think you already have one
- perhapsimcrazy, on 09/01/2008, -5/+28I need my Action Putin action figure. Complete with hammer, sickle accessories.
But in a more serious note, that's a pretty badass story - nobody98, on 09/01/2008, -3/+25Take note Dick Cheney!
- benhunted, on 09/01/2008, -7/+29Comrade Putin has saved millions, let the story of his continued mercy be told to the masses.
- shadeOfGrey, on 09/01/2008, -0/+21Our army of tigers is useless!
- arjie, on 09/01/2008, -0/+21This is how wars should be settled. Put them in an arena, live coverage, president vs. prime minister, king vs. emperor, dictator vs. puppet ruler. It'll be like Unreal Tournament, except more fun.
- norbiu, on 09/01/2008, -4/+24Must HAVE been.
- atlquaker, on 09/01/2008, -3/+21Was it a Georgian tiger?
- IamSunstorm, on 09/01/2008, -1/+18This story isn't what hapened at all. In reality, Putin tore off his shirt, jumped in front of the tiger, and wrestled it bare-handed until its will broke and it became docile. At that point, Putin punched it in the head, knocking it out so that the others can approach it.
Since only Russians can handle that much awesome, the story was redacted for foreign broadcast. - geoffg, on 09/01/2008, -2/+18Apparently neither should Georgia, Ukraine, Poland...
- biffen, on 09/01/2008, -5/+21Godwin's Law wins again.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -34/+50Russian Spam.
- ObamaYouth, on 09/01/2008, -7/+22If Obama doesn't win in Nov, I'm moving to Russia.
- Aerandir, on 09/01/2008, -0/+14Probably Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would kill them all.
- 6donkey9, on 09/01/2008, -1/+15Let's not forget that he was a chearleader....that counts for something....
- Sylenus, on 09/01/2008, -1/+141. He's the most important / powerful person in the group of researcher and he knew they were going to be faffing about with a tiger. = he had the air riffle.
2. The guy has likely killed people; tiger breaks free, he has a projectile weapon, he uses it. Honestly anyone would react that way IMO.
If you want to focus on the negative, that may have been the only air riffle they had, so he was basically being selfish and happened to luck out on it. - 3gibberish4q57, on 09/01/2008, -2/+15Pffft. Yeah right. What's next, Putin doesn't make the trains run on time?
- jimrin, on 09/01/2008, -7/+19This seems like the Twilight Zone. Any ideas on why Putin just happened to have a tranquilizer gun and why the handlers did not? Or when the Tiger broke free, did he rush over, grab the gun from one of the handlers, and save the crew while everyone else was just standing still like deer caught in headlights?
- zephc, on 09/01/2008, -0/+12for the journalists?
- asnaturalasgas, on 09/01/2008, -1/+11why did he have a tranquilizer gun handy, indeed ...
... also, if you've ever watched a wildlife documentry where they tranquilize an animial, it's not exactly stopped in it's tracks ... especially one that is charging... they use real guns for those situations - blacktriangle, on 09/01/2008, -1/+10Even if it is fake, lets compare it to the Fox News propaganda which could not muster a story as entertaining as this.
- SeventhSon, on 09/01/2008, -0/+9It's amazing that I didn't block you after the first two times you said that.
- thetruthisthere, on 09/01/2008, -2/+11***** DICK
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