Wild Night

Zoo Boise in Idaho needed funds, so manager David Wayne set up a publicity and fund-raising event, a “Feast for the Beast” dinner, set among several of the zoo's animals. The food must have smelled good: a 600-pound Amur tiger pushed through the door of its unlocked cage and attacked diner Janet Gold, 40. A police officer in the crowd pulled his gun and started shooting over the tiger's head to scare it. “He couldn't shoot at the tiger because he was afraid he would hit the woman,” a police spokesman said. Eventually the tiger was corralled, and the woman was rushed to the hospital with neck injuries — and a gunshot wound to her leg. (AP) ...At least the zoo got a lot of publicity out of the event.