In Case You Missed This

Because this hasn't been getting a lot of play, what with Hurricane Gustave and Hurricane RNC going on. 

Vladimir Putin took some time out of his busy plotting the invasion of all of Russia's past colonial possessions to save a tee vee crew from a Siberian tiger. 

Putin, taking a break from lambasting the West over Georgia, apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild.

Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.

"Vladimir Putin not only managed to see the giant predator up close but also saved our television crew too," a presenter on Rossiya television said at the start of the main evening news.

Just one word to describe this situation: STAGED!

Where the hell did Vlad the Impaler get a tranquilizer gun?  Does he carry one with him, in case he needs to sedate Medvedev?