Man Fends Off Tiger with Weed Wacker in Abandoned Detroit Building

The tiger was captured and there were no injuries reported.

Didorosi posted on Facebook with images and video from the day, “When your friend calls and says he needs help getting a tiger out of a staircase, you listen”.

Smith told MLive.com that Yarrow’s crew claimed they had received a permit from the city of Detroit to have animals on site, but that doesn’t matter. Since Didorosi did not have a leaf blower, he instead brought a weed whacker.

In an unbelievable series of Facebook posts, Andy Didorosi, a Detroiter who runs The Detroit Bus Company, unraveled he and Tony Barchock’s efforts to rid the abandoned plant of a stray tiger.

The plant has long been a symbol of Detroit’s decline.

Didorosi said that the local crew helping with the shoot was told only that “models” were being used, not wild animals, and then “this big “Jurassic Park”-like trailer shows up with all these wild animals”.

“I’m going to help a friend scare a tiger out of hiding in a staircase”.

An e-mail to Yarrow’s photography website seeking comment was not returned. I just happened to be the closest dumb person to the scene.

The trainers were apparently able to get the tiger safely back into its cage.

A spokesman for Animals of Montana, which provided the animals, told ABC News that “no tiger escaped and no tiger was on the loose”.

In the process it hunkered down in a fourth story stairwell in a video shot by Andy Didorsi and posted on Instagram (@thatdetroitandy).

Kari Smith, director of development for the Packard Plant, confirmed the tiger was inside the plant as part of a photo shoot along with two other large cats.

The unscripted wildlife moment in the D had social media roaring with laughter. “We never approved any animals being on the site, and we had the matter taken care of in the first hour”. It cancelled the photo shoot because it does not condone animals being on the site.