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Court orders tiger from truck stop
Tony the Tiger must leave the Louisiana truck stop bearing his name.
November 3, 2011
Channel 19
Channel 19 Monday: Fallen log hauler gets send-off; Court to Tiger Truckstop: āSet Tony freeā
Last ride for Maine log hauler āMackie,ā R.I.P. The Central Maine Morning-Sentinel news site reported late last week on the Skowhegan memorial-service convoy that was reportedly āone last rideā for area log-hauler Maxell C. āMackieā Moore. Around 20 trucks joined the ride, including Mackieās own, piloted by Tim Clements, best friend to Mooreās youngest son, [ā¦]
May 9, 2011
Channel 19
Rhetoric on Tony the Truckstop Tiger boils over into truckstop villification
Itās been a little while since I checked in on the efforts by animal-rights activists and others ā including a large coterie of truck drivers ā to force owners of the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., to give up their caged Bengal tiger, Tony. The latest efforts including a lawsuit filed this week [ā¦]
April 15, 2011
Channel 19
Tony āthe truck stop tigerā ā calls from the driver community to uncage him
Nearly two years have passed since I first wrote about efforts by animal-rights activists (post from January 2009 originally on old Channel 19 blog home on Blogger.com)Ā to require Gross Tete, La., Tiger Truck Stop owner Michael Sandlin to relocate the caged Bengal-Siberian tiger on the site of stop. Itās been there as an attraction to [ā¦]
December 6, 2010
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