You v tiger

[Lamp]

A tiger. The tiger wants to eat you
You armed with nothing but a baseball bat (no transport, no backpack, just you)

Big open flat grassland. No trees for miles around. This is the tiger's territory

Could you take down the tiger?

 

[Ch3tan]

No fucking chance, best you might hope for is that you could make it hesitate or feel you were not worth the effort. If you had a light and could turn the bat into a torch, then you'd have a better chance.

 

[Thorwyn]

No chance I´d say.

 

[Dukat]

Lions > Tigers.

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough, stripey!

 

[Thorwyn]

Lions > Tigers.

Sorry, you´re wrong.

q.e.d.

 

[fettoken]

Baseball bat, no. Two handed sharpened sword, perhaps.

 

[Chosen]

You taking a young male lion against a fully grown up sibir tiger? Thats not fair!

 

[ileks]

I think you would need a sharp object of some sort. You would need to use it's momentum against it. If it just ran towards you and all you had was a baseball bat you would be fucked.

 

[Dukat]

Sorry, you´re wrong.

q.e.d.

Sorry, you're wrong.

b.a.c.o.n.

The Lion and the Statue an Aesop's Fable

 

[Thorwyn]

That must be the Paris Hilton of lions. Never change your facial expressions!

 

[leviathane]

too many variables;
gender
subspecies
is it all open field, cos most tigers will only hunt if they're relatively close due to their lack of stamina.
How big is the "area"

etc etc.

 

[ST^]

A tiger. The tiger wants to eat you
You armed with nothing but a baseball bat (no transport, no backpack, just you)

Big open flat grassland. No trees for miles around. This is the tiger's territory

Could you take down the tiger?

Tigers actually don't hang around in open areas, Tiger territory is like trees + water.

Still, I'm sure I'd be dead. For me, Tigers are only behind crocodiles as the ultimate predator. Tigers are far stronger than lions. Lions need to hunt in a pack to bring down big stuff. Tigers don't.

 

[Dukat]

Tigers actually don't hang around in open areas, Tiger territory is like trees + water.

Still, I'm sure I'd be dead. For me, Tigers are only behind crocodiles as the ultimate predator. Tigers are far stronger than lions. Lions need to hunt in a pack to bring down big stuff. Tigers don't.

Dont come in here with your fancy-pants logic and factiods, mr ST^!



Lions are way better than tigers


So there

 

[Access Denied]

You have a baseball bat. Open grassland, nowhere to hide. I win. Tiger charges and jumps at me. I hold the bat above my head, jump off to the side at the last moment and bring the bat down with as much force as I can muster anywhere on the front quadrant of the animal, preferably the back of the neck. I don't care how tough an animal is, the fact is their bones are no stronger than ours and a solid wack from a basbeall bat will break a bone.

 

[Zenith.UK]

No idea. Make a stand, give it a go.

You've no chance if you try to run.

 

[Ctuchik]

You have a baseball bat. Open grassland, nowhere to hide. I win. Tiger charges and jumps at me. I hold the bat above my head, jump off to the side at the last moment and bring the bat down with as much force as I can muster anywhere on the front quadrant of the animal, preferably the back of the neck. I don't care how tough an animal is, the fact is their bones are no stronger than ours and a solid wack from a basbeall bat will break a bone.

you're trying to hit the tiger in the same direction its running, and tigers can run fairly fast, so you have to basically hit twice as fast as normal to make up for it.

best chance in your scenario would be to aim at its face as he jumps to get as much force as possible on your side. but then you have to take into account that its ~700 pounds worth of claws potentially getting REALLY pissed off..

even if the tiger has slowed down i very much doubt you can manage to make up for it if you aim for the back of its head.

besides, i'm not even sure its possible to "jump off to the side" and avoid getting hit, it is a cat after all, and you probably know how fast reactions they have. it really doesn't even need to hit you personally, all it needs is one claw to latch on to your clothes and you my friend is going down.

personally i have no hopes of getting away from a tiger that has me locked on as potential lunch. i might be able to chase if off AFTER it's knocked me down, but i will most likely be seriously or even fatally injured.

 

[yaruar]

Lions > Tigers.

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough, stripey!

Liger > All

 

[Job]

I'd go for running at it, shouting and waving the bat.
Tigers aren't that used to humans and aren't used to pray charging them, most big cats will chose
retreat if they're not sure of anything.
Of course this could go very wrong, very quickly.

 

[kamorrista]

Tigers typically surprise victims from the side or from behind: either approaching upwind or lying in wait downwind. Tigers rarely press an attack if they are seen before their ambush is mounted.

Tigers are typically wary of humans and have shown no preference for human meat. Although humans are relatively easy prey, they are not a desired source of food. Most tigers will only attack a human if they cannot physically satisfy their needs otherwise. Thus, most man-eating tigers are old, infirm or have missing teeth. In one case, a post-mortem examination of a killed tigress revealed two broken canine teeth, four missing incisors and a loose upper molar, handicaps which make capturing more standard prey extremely difficult. Only once reaching this stage did she attack a workman.

“It is extraordinary how very cautious every man-eater becomes by practice, whether a tiger or panther, and cowardly too. Invariably, it will only attack a solitary person, and that too, after prolonged and painstaking stalking, having assured itself that no other human being is in the immediate vicinity... These animals seem also to possess an astute sixth sense and be able to differentiate between an unarmed human being and an armed man deliberately pursuing them, for in most cases, only when cornered will they venture to attack the latter, while they go out of their way to stalk and attack the unarmed man.”

—“The Man-Eater of Segur”, from Nine Man-Eaters and One Rogue, Kenneth Anderson, Allen & Unwin, 1954

I would never turn my back to the tiger, and walk backwards looking at him, I might have a chance, they can "feel" you are armed, therefore they will think twice to attack you, furthermore normally only old tigers may try attack a human pray.

When tigers attack you

 

[R2D3]

No chance, this guy was armed with an elephant and it took 3 fingers off him with 1 swipe! (it was only a female, male tigers have been known to kill the elephant, crocodiles and a male bengal supposedly usually beats a male lion)

YouTube - Tiger Jumping

 

[Thorwyn]

A brunette, a redhead and a blonde are walking through the desert, when a hungry lion (or was it a tiger?) appears. The brunette grabs some sand, throws it into the lions face and the lion runs off.
A few minutes later, two lions show up. So the brunette and the readhead grab some sand, throw it into the lions faces and whooosh... both lions run off.
Few minutes later, an entire pack of lions appear, slowly circling the three women. Brunette says "Look, there´s a tree over there! Let´s get up!"
Brunette and redhead are climbing up the tree, but the blonde just keeps standing on the ground, giggling and smiling. Brunette says "Hey! Get up here! Don´t you see the lions?"
Blonde says "So what? *I* didn´t throw sand in their faces! tehehehe!"

 

[Raven]

You have a baseball bat. Open grassland, nowhere to hide. I win. Tiger charges and jumps at me. I hold the bat above my head, jump off to the side at the last moment and bring the bat down with as much force as I can muster anywhere on the front quadrant of the animal, preferably the back of the neck. I don't care how tough an animal is, the fact is their bones are no stronger than ours and a solid wack from a basbeall bat will break a bone.

Yes, their bones are stronger than ours. You would not be strong enough to do any damage to the tiger, not enough damage to incapacitate it anyway. You might annoy it a bit more though.

 

[pikeh]

I'd happily sacrifice myself if it meant being tore to pieces by cute little tiger cubs!

 

[Lamp]

 

[Lamp]

Chimpanzee earns her stripes as a foster mum by caring for two white tiger cubs | Mail Online

 

[Ezteq]

lol i don't think you'd really have any choice in the matter but to gve it a go at saving yourself...doubt success would follow but some interesting tiger knowledge that might help in this situation that I have just off the top of my head.

In india most tiger attacks occur on humans when they are bending over with their backs to them (no the tigers do not surprise sex them!) so people who live in villages are encouraged to wear masks on the back of their heads to trick the tigers into thinking they are being observed (a bit like the fake eyes on butterflys wings).

Also if you make yourself look big you might stand a bit of a chance, waving the baseball bat about and trying to hit the tiger with it would probably only piss it off, if you hung your shirt on it and held it over your head you might have some form of luck there...but seeing as that tiger in the video just wtfpwnd that dude on the elephant I am not so sure about this approach.

Personally I would favour the morgan grimes school of tiger deflection
YouTube - Chuck - Morgan VS Tiger [HD] 3x15

 

[yaruar]

Yes, their bones are stronger than ours. You would not be strong enough to do any damage to the tiger, not enough damage to incapacitate it anyway. You might annoy it a bit more though.

I wonder if a direct hit on the nose would make it turn tail though, although if it's actually primed for attack, i doubt even a sledgehammer to the bonce would stop it.

 

[mooSe_]

This is how the fight between me and the tiger would look: YouTube - COME AT ME BRO

 

[gohan]

to be fair like most animals its a dominance thing


it u took the bat and jsut charged at it screaming the tiger would probly thing ..... wtf???? that ***** fuckign mental!!!!! and run away

 

[Zenith.UK]

No chance, this guy was armed with an elephant and it took 3 fingers off him with 1 swipe! (it was only a female, male tigers have been known to kill the elephant, crocodiles and a male bengal supposedly usually beats a male lion)

Wow!
Just... Wow!