Amazing Race tidbit

I think I may have mentioned before that Computer Boy watches the television show, The Amazing Race regularly.

I am a little late on this (busy person syndrome) but we were watching this last Sunday and there was a task where the contestants had to find a zoo somewhere in Thailand and get their picture taken with a (live, unstuffed) tiger among other things. They get to the zoo and find the tiger and this tiger is snarling, baring his teeth etc. and I note that the tiger handler only has a rickety looking stick/pole to poke the tiger's head this way or that way. This did not look to be a state of the art tiger-handling technique to me but this is not my field of expertise so I would naturally defer to any non-maimed tiger handlers on this subject.

Anyway, the contestants were expected to sit next to the tiger, touch it, get comfy and smile for the camera. Most appeared genuinely nervous as I suspect that they were probably fearing being part of an "Animals Gone Wild" or "Faces of Death" video but in the end, all contestants left the zoo intact.

My attention must have been drawn to the tiger because I did not see until the very end of the scene that the makeshift tiger trainer only had.......................one arm.

Priceless.