A Tiger ate Joe Exotic's buddy

[Reiwa]

Tiger kills and eats Oklahoma trainer linked to ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic (https://lite.cnn.com/2025/09/21/us/ryan-easley-tiger-trainer-joe-exotic-killed)

My thoughts are prayers go out the whole Exotic family at the time.

[sammoHung]

"This is the c**p I am sick of. CNN drags me into this story to make a headline worth reading, and I had nothing to do with this dude other than 18 years ago I let him keep his tigers at my zoo for one winter," Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Allen Maldonado, wrote on X.

"Sick of being exploited for headlines," he said, adding, "President Trump let's sue CNN."

Ok, so Joe Exotic is a nutjob - but he's got a point. There is dubious (at best) linking this to him at all. But the dumbass news sites put his name in the headline to get people to click and view their ad banners.