This is in my general neck of the woods. I'm in a neighboring county. Information I got is that the animal owner was just released from federal prison where he'd been serving time on weapons charges. Both illegal full-auto weapons and short barrelled weapons. (Long story short, when he was under investigation for violating laws regarding the animals, an investigator spotted a couple of short barrelled weapons. This was used to get a search warrant, and he was found to posses five illegal full auto's and three illegal short barrelled weapons.) Anyways, his wife left him in the last couple of days. Looks like he just lost it, opened all of the animal enclosures, and shot himself.
Our Sheriff's Department and major Police Departments have SWAT guys on stand-by, primarily the snipers and their .308's. As funny as this is to read about, people are concerned about these big cats, wolves, and bears. This is Ohio, where deer hunting is limited to shotguns with slugs, and most farmers deal with varmints using .223. Don't know about you, but I really don't want to face down a pissed off grizzly bear with an AR-15, or try to stop a bengal tiger with a 12 gauge. Your average CCW carrier is going to have a .40 or .45 at most, which ain't going to help you much if your dealing with a scared/hungry/angry lion.
Any suggestions for how I walk the dog tonight??? I mean, I've been preparing for a zombie hoard, not a mass zoo escape...
