Naked Woman, Tiger In Photo Shoot At Detroit Packard Plant

A naked woman in trenchcoat, a tiger, two wolves and a bobcat were spotted by people who were in the vicinity of the Detroit Packard Plant, according to Detroit resident Andy Didorosi. He got a call on Monday from a friend requesting help to contain the tiger.

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. The site, though, has been abandoned mostly since 2010 after it was sold during an auction in 2013 to Arte Express Detroit which would renovate the area.

According to Didorosi, founder of the Detroit bus company, his friend asked for "something with a loud noise" to scare the big cat into going down a building into a crate attached to a trailer. Since Didorosi did not have a leaf blower, he instead brought a weed whacker.

Wes Siler, Didorosi's friend, in an article in Gizmondo, wrote that the tiger left the photo shoot inside an abandoned factory and entered a staircase but got terrified while on its way to the 4^th floor. Siler recalls, "We did that tarp, that didn't work. So then we tried a battery-powered hedge trimmer, because that's kinda loud. That didn't work. And then we went down with a weed whip, the loudest thing we've got, and the tiger swiped at it! That didn't work. I was scared shitless."

The attempts angered the tiger, so the handlers advised Siler and Didorosi to back away real slow. Siler believes the handler used tranquilizer shots to bring back the big cat to the cage. The commotion caused by the loose tiger led to cancellation of the photo shoot, recalls Didorosi.

Animals of Montana provided the tiger, which it insisted did not escape and was not loose. The group's spokesman said he photo shoot aimed to show "the beauty of the beast and the beauty of Detroit." The spokesperson blamed social media overblow why the photo shoot did not push through.

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. It cancelled the photo shoot because it does not condone animals being on the site.