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The 7 top social media jokes about the Packard Plant's tiger shoot

By Michael Jackman on Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:16 pm

Talk about lighting up social networking! The magic combination of a tiger, the Packard Plant, and a weed trimmer was enough to set Facebook and Twitter on their head today. Here is our entirely unscientific collection of some of the best posts riffing on today's weirdness.

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Michael Jackman

Born in 1969 at Mount Carmel hospital in Detroit, Jackman grew up just 100 yards from the Detroit city line in east Dearborn. Jackman has attended New York University, the School of Visual Arts, Northwestern University and Wayne State University, though he never got a degree. He has worked as a bar back, busboy,...

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