{"id":13222,"date":"2013-03-30T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=13222"},"modified":"2013-03-30T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T16:34:06","slug":"a-tiger-a-truck-stop-and-a-pitched-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=13222","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Tiger, A Truck Stop and a Pitched Legal Battle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great thanks to Campbell Robertson at the New York Times for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/28\/us\/truck-stop-tiger-in-louisiana-stirs-legal-battle.html?pagewanted=all&amp;amp;_r=0\">an &#8230; enchanting? weird? funny and slightly scary? story about a lawsuit. <\/a>Oh and PS you get a neat photo of a live, real tiger. Named Tony.<\/p>\n<p>Let me offer the first couple of paragraphs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Grosse Tete<\/em> [which BTW means &#8220;fat head&#8221;]<em>, La. \u2014 The American truck stop is a promise of certain reliables: a shower, a warm meal, some small talk at the counter, a 24\/7 source of diesel, beef jerky and cigarettes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The truck stop here just west of Baton Rouge offers all those things, but as most southern Louisianians know, it has another less standard feature: a 550-pound Bengal Siberian tiger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Tony is only the latest in a line of tigers to live here. Thirteen cubs were born at the truck stop, and several adult tigers brought in including a white tiger named Salena who died of pancreatic cancer in the early 2000s and is now stuffed and sitting in the Tiger Cafe atop the salad bar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the part that got me laughing. A stuffed tiger sitting on top of a salad bar?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it all involves a lawsuit\u2014my excuse for posting this. Please read on. You&#8217;ll <em>love<\/em> it. Although I don&#8217;t know whether you&#8217;ll be heading down to Grosse Tete and Tony any time soon. Not even to dip into that salad bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great thanks to Campbell Robertson at the New York Times for an &#8230; enchanting? weird? funny and slightly scary? story about a lawsuit. Oh and PS you get a neat photo of a live, real tiger. Named Tony. 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