Detroit police said the tiger escaped from a British film crew Monday while they were shooting footage inside the old Packard Plant and the crew was unable to recapture the big cat.
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A tiger got loose in Detroit’s famously decrepit Packard Plant on August 17, and it wasn’t one of the city’s baseball players, either.
But Karl Smith, project manager of the Packard Plant Project, said it arranged for a photography group of humans to be on the site for two days and never approved for animals on the site.
A trainer who was on hand for the photoshoot eventually coaxed the tiger back into its trailer, The Detroit Free Press reported.
“I don’t know much about tiger logistics, but we were told to be this huge blue tarp monster with the weed whacker and try to be scary and make loud noises”.
Police were notified and called to the situation after several Instagram photos of the animal in the rubble of defunct facility were posted.
“This feels like the dumbest thing we’ve ever done”, one of the men says in the footage. And she’s not refunding the site rental fee, either. “This is not something that we condone in any way”. Detroit isn’t remote like South Sudan is, where Yarrow took a picture of Dinka cattle herders that sold for $60,000 per print.
“People think it’s OK to bring super unsafe animals into the city without alerting the authorities because they think people don’t care, because they think it’s a cesspool and that they can do whatever (they) want”, Didorosi told the Free Press.
Smith says the photo “shoot was authorized… the animals were not authorized”. It is unclear yet whether charges will be sought. Nikon describes their ambassadors as “some of the most talented visual artists in the business today”.
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The Detroit Free Press, David Yarrow, a British photographer, booked a two-day shoot at the plant which is part of a complex made up of nine buildings.
