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Do you guys have a specific guide line or Check list to what makes a person a "LOLCOW"? I am thinking of making one and posting it if anyone is interested
 
I have two that come to mind for Community Watch:
  • The Loud House fandom. I've seen the horrors of this fandom in other threads on here, and it's so insane that I think it deserves its' own thread.
  • Unironic preschool show fans. Mostly it's people who didn't outgrow the shows they grew up watching (the two most notable being Barney and Thomas), but this occasionally happens with modern shows like PAW Patrol and most of what Disney Junior shows.
 
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RavenSykes.Light said:
Do you guys have a specific guide line or Check list to what makes a person a "LOLCOW"? I am thinking of making one and posting it if anyone is interested
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There's a "man" called Shane Brannigan. I call him a "man" loosely as he still behaves like he's 10, due to the fact he was a rent boy when he was 12.

What makes him special? Well he's one of those nonce hunters (hint: he rarely busts actual nonces, just those who are into 14 or 15 year olds) and his reactions when he finds them is so funny that he's become a well known meme here in the UK.

He's quite difficult to find as his accounts on social media are constantly getting taken down or he removes them. Here's a picture of the sex beast:

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Here's the social media I've found on him:
https://www.youtube.com/user/thegreatbigblue (YouTube Channel)
https://www.facebook.com/noncehater/ (Facebook Page)
https://twitter.com/hatesnonces (Twitter - Suspended)
http://www.shanebrannigan.co.uk/ (Website - also taken down)
 
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JOHN INGLE (Adult Baby Jackie): SEXUAL DEVIANCY INCARNATE *Gross*
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Greetings. First and probably only time I'll be suggesting a cow as I posses a wealth of knowledge regarding the sins of this man. It's honestly quite perplexing to me that there isn't already a forum dedicated to a freak show of this caliber considering the nearly CWC amount of documentation and cringe-worthy material, and the best part is he is still uploading content to this day, as I type this he has already released 4 new Tik Tok duets on his channel. but at the same time I envy those who are unfamiliar with his disgusting antics. Anyways, here's some fucked shit I know about him from simply skimming through an incredibly small portion of videos and information available about him online. Obviously what I am aware of is only a fraction of the potential degeneracy that can be found on his channels, which is a part of the reason I am giving him exposure on Kiwi, as I want others to do the dirty work of looking through his dirty laundry. I have had my fucking fill of John Ingle for one lifetime.

My history with Mr. Ingle begins on a boring summers day in my eight grade year of 2014. As per usual, I was chatting with my best friend over Skype and discussing recent cringe videos I had seen. We were both fans of the SleepyCabin Podcast at the time and took inspiration from their conversations about disgusting adult baby videos they had had forced each other to watch. I'm not exactly sure how my rabbit hole of recommended video clicks led me to his channel, but to this day I will never forget the pure shock of seeing a 60+ year old man talk about shitting in his nappy for the first time.

Let me just try and explain who (or what) Mr. Ingle is. See, Johnny Boy here has a little bit of an identity disorder. Similar to trans-pop culture icons such as Caitlyn Jenner and Buffalo Bill, J-Man just isn't comfortable in his own skin. To alleviate this crushing mental game of 'Guess Who?' that constantly rages inside his head, John often recedes into his "true self". This persona is known as "Baby Jackie". Now, if there's one thing you need to know about John its this; He LOVES to sing. Some would probably say it's his favorite hobby (other than a completely non-sexual interest in children's clothing and toys ((more on that later ;)) Anyways, John loves singing more than anything in the world, which is self evident by the fact that he has uploaded more cover songs than any YouTuber on the platform I am aware of. Unless there is a content creator who is specifically dedicated to covering every song in existence, I'm pretty sure this fucking weirdo holds the world record. Also he is a text book example of a hoarder, his room is always filled with useless shit, baby clothes, garbage, etc.

At this point I will take the opportunity to post a link to his primary channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/JohnJulieKARAOKEUK/videos

Now at this point you might be thinking to yourself; "Yeah ok, another Adult Baby... They're a dime a dozen, who gives a shit?" And under normal circumstances you would be right, however, we aren't dealing with just any man child here. I've decided at this point, it's best to just go with the Show don't Tell method and assault your senses. Click at your own discretion.

Adult Baby Gangnam Style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7OZAaRqS80

Here he is in Black Face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whAY3bV3_z8

Here he is in Nazi attire surrounded by swastikas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69w_hu1pGuM

This is one of the first videos he ever posted. Appears to feature a younger version of himself dancing like a naked sperg with an assumed former spouse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JP1iW0gxOg

I think you've all seen enough. Feel free to do some digging if you're interested. But as I stated earlier I do feel inclined to share some of the sexually degenerate things this guy has partaken in. Unfortunately I don't have any links because I don't feel like subjecting myself to his naked smeagol body again, but try searching this guys name on porn sites and see what comes up. I can personally say I've seen him get his ass pounded by an obese man, and have oral sex with another homosexual male. For obvious reasons I didn't feel like searching for them but I swear to Space God they exist.

Enjoy the lulz.
 
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We need an forum on Andy Tucker the head of O-tako Studios this guy has a lulzy history and may be a pedophile (he had minors draw porn because he finds them quote "easier to work with." He has tried to shut down anything made against him. We need a thread against him now!
 
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We need an forum on Andy Tucker the head of O-tako Studios this guy has a lulzy history and may be a pedophile (he had minors draw porn because he finds them quote "easier to work with." He has tried to shut down anything made against him. We need a thread against him now!
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I agree, he has been a copyright Striking videos on him, there are 2 he has his eyes on, one of Daftpina and a other of him admiting to 800$ for a underage girl nuds.

The copyright Strikes have been happen a around a hour and or 30 mins when I post this message.
 
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Tommy C. is currently streaming a "review" of this interview thing Keem did. This fucking guy whined for a year over being kicked off Baited or whatever happened, and he's still using his name for clickbait.

Someone, anyone out there, make a fucking thread on this guy. By far, he is the most annoying person on YouTube. He tries so hard to be a part of Internet Bloodsports, but he just doesn't get that he is not entertaining. Entertainment value is not in his blood.
 
Shin Christzilla also known as Crow, DarkRoar360, & SnorlaxX420Xx because holy shit, there is so little information about him now but he is a huge treasure trove. All of his videos on his YouTube channel (Snorlax) are all gone and nearly every single thread made by him on reddit (DarkRoar360) was deleted by him.

He tried to make a mod of Persona 3 Portable but what he done from what was said was that he used from many prexisting images which anyone could take legal for and was trying to ask Atlus if he could do that.

Later ShrineFox, the guy who made all these tools to mod the Persona series, decided to troll him and decided that he and his friends would try to gain his trust and ban him from his discord server that he had operating for this mod project.

The way you had to be part of this project was to send him necrophilia of Persona 3 characters. There were also rumors of sexual assaulting one of ShrineFox’s goons, as he puts it.

Eventually ShrineFox succeeded and uploaded a video mocking the entire project by the power of modding. Which when crow finally had this news, Crow thought that ShrineFox completely stole his project and posted a rant on the Megami Tensei Subreddit. It’s somewhere archived on Dramatica probably.


You may need to interview ShrineFox, TGE, & other people were involved in the situation and also try to gain trust for Crow. He could be on KiwiFarms & Assemblergames but I have no idea what he goes as.
 
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Texas Monthly

Joe Exotic was done. For the previous two decades, 55-year-old Joe had been the heart, soul, and ubiquitous public face of a massive private zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, an hour north of the Texas line. He had boasted of owning the largest tiger collection in America. His sixteen-acre park was lined with metal cages, each filled with majestic tigers, lions, bears, alligators, and even tiger-lion hybrids called tiligers.
His sun-leathered visage, horseshoe mustache, and blond mullet adorned signs all over the zoo and all along I-35 between Dallas and Oklahoma City. His image covered the side of a tour bus as well as packages of condoms for sale in the zoo’s eclectic gift shop. His face had been on CNN, BBC, and CBS This Morning, and he had drawn millions of views on his YouTube channels and website, which hosted his shows, Joe Exotic TV and Joe Gone Wild.
Most of Joe’s life—many of his best moments and many of his worst—could be traced back to that zoo. He had for years both worked and lived on the property. But by August 2018, his kingdom had all but turned to dust. The zoo’s new owner, a flashy exotic animal breeder named Jeff Lowe, had squeezed Joe out of the business two months earlier and was in the process of dismantling much of the zoo, piece by piece, before taking its animals to another facility.
Joe had his issues with Lowe, but he blamed his troubles mostly on someone else: Carole Baskin, the owner of a big-cat sanctuary in Tampa, Florida. To those outside the exotic animal industry, Baskin and Joe appeared to operate similar facilities. But their philosophies diverged sharply on nearly every animal rights issue, notably the ethics of breeding big cats and allowing visitors to pet cubs, both of which had been fundamental parts of Joe’s business. Today there are more tigers in captivity than in the wild, and breeding remains a major point of contention between conservationists and private zoo owners like Joe. Baskin was Joe’s most vocal and effective critic, and in 2013 she had won a $1 million civil suit against him. He became consumed with revenge and repeatedly vowed to bring Baskin down.
But he had failed to do so, after years of trying, and lost everything in the process. Now all he wanted was to shed his identity and leave behind the swollen persona that had become the most recognizable—and controversial—the exotic animal industry had ever seen. So, along with his then 22-year-old husband and four dogs, he had split for Florida. They ended up at a Motel 6 in Pensacola, and soon discovered a bedroom community named Gulf Breeze. The sand was white, the water clear. He found work washing dishes at Peg Leg Pete’s, a pirate-themed seafood joint, and bartending for a catering company at night. He had found his new home.

On the morning of September 7, 2018, 81 days after Joe had left the zoo, he went to a local hospital to apply for a third job. It was a sunny Florida day—there was dew on the grass; the temperature was just right. Joe parked near the hospital and stepped down from his blue Ford F-150 with his résumé in hand. Suddenly, four unmarked cars skidded to a stop around him. In a flash he was surrounded by plainclothes law enforcement officers. Joe watched as they pointed their weapons at him and shouted, “Get on the ground! Get on the ground!”
He dropped and felt a knee drive into his back. He was cuffed and taken to the federal courthouse for an arraignment hearing. Joe learned that he was being accused of attempting to hire two hit men to kill Carole Baskin.
Suddenly he was famous again, his mulleted mug all over the national news. The story of how it had come to this would strain even the darkest imagination.
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Joe and one of his tigers, Sarge, in December 2016, as the zoo descended into chaos.
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Before he was Joe Exotic, he was Joe Schreibvogel, born on a farm in rural Kansas. Though his parents had come from wealthy farming families, they did not pamper their children, and Joe always felt that he and his four siblings were born to work as farmhands. It was not an affectionate household. Joe’s parents rarely, if ever, told him they loved him.
His father, a Korean War vet, moved the family from Kansas when Joe was fourteen. First they went to Wyoming, where the property they owned seemed to Joe like an entire mountainside. Then they moved to Pilot Point, Texas, north of Dallas, where they lived in an eight-bedroom house on a large ranch.
Joe was not close with his siblings, except for his older brother, Garold. Joe and Garold shared a deep love of animals. Joe participated in Future Farmers of America and often brought home raccoons, ferrets, and other creatures to care for. He and Garold liked to watch nature shows on TV, and Garold confided in Joe that he hoped one day to live in the wild in Africa so he could see the beautiful beasts there running free.
When Joe graduated from high school, in 1982, he became a police officer in nearby Eastvale. At age nineteen, he was promoted to chief of police. It was a small department. Only a few officers worked under him, and serious crimes were rare.
Joe felt accepted by his colleagues, but he was only beginning to come to terms with his sexuality. Joe hadn’t yet told his parents that he was gay when one of his siblings outed him to his father, who made Joe shake his hand and promise not to attend his funeral. Joe was devastated. One day not long after, he was approaching a bridge in his police cruiser and decided he wanted to die. He veered into a concrete barrier, nearly plummeting over the edge of the bridge. He survived, but he was severely injured. He moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, and underwent months of difficult physical therapy.

There, he lived with a boyfriend and got a job working at a pet store. His neighbor worked at an exotic animal park nearby and would often come home with baby lions and monkeys that he’d let Joe bottle-feed. Joe was hooked. He moved back to Texas and began his career in the exotic animal industry.
In 1986 Joe, Garold, and Joe’s first husband—Brian Rhyne, whom he’d met at a bar in Dallas and married in an unofficial ceremony—bought a pet store together in Arlington. For the first few years they sold reptiles, birds, and small fish. Joe and Garold were both clever about finding ways to make money. Garold would dumpster dive behind furniture and carpet stores and turn the trash into cat playgrounds and doghouses, which he would sell. They used the money to expand their store, buying bigger cages for small exotic pets, like three-banded armadillos and four-eyed opossums. It was a nice little business that suited the brothers’ passions. But then, in October 1997, disaster struck. Garold was hit by a drunk driver outside Dallas. He died within a week.
Two of the darkest moments in Joe’s life—his attempted suicide and the death of his brother—had happened in Texas. Joe needed a change. The pet store was not the same without Garold, so Joe decided to sell it. He never forgot his brother’s love of wild animals, though, and with the help of $140,000 his family had won in a lawsuit related to Garold’s death, he bought sixteen acres of land about an hour south of Oklahoma City. Joe poured cement for sidewalks and built a row of nine cages. The Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park opened two years to the day after Garold’s death.
Word spread quickly that Joe had opened an animal sanctuary, and people began dropping off exotic animals that they no longer wanted. Two of Garold’s pets, a deer and a buffalo, were the zoo’s first inhabitants. Then came a mountain lion. Then a bear. In 2000 Joe got a call from a game warden telling him that someone had abandoned two tigers in a backyard near Ardmore. Joe brought them back to the animal park. They were his very first tigers. He named them Tess and Tickles. They bred, and Joe raised their cubs. The beautiful beasts were hardly running free, but here they were up close. Garold would have loved it, Joe thought.

Joe frequently took the stage with his animals. His traveling animal and magic show criss-crossed the country.
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Trouble started early. In 1999, when the park was still under construction, Joe agreed to transport a flock of emaciated emus that had been rescued from a large pen in Red Oak, just south of Dallas. Some of the emus escaped while he was loading them up and headed for the freeway. Joe shot at least six of them, and they flailed around like chickens that had just been beheaded before they died. Local law enforcement and the SPCA blasted Joe for his recklessness, but a grand jury declined to indict him on animal cruelty charges.
Tragedy struck again in December 2001, when Rhyne passed away from a deadly infection. His funeral was held at the zoo. Within a year, Joe had a new lover and life partner, a 24-year-old named J. C. Hartpence. Aided by Hartpence’s experience as an event producer, Joe developed a traveling animal and magic show where kids could pet tiger cubs while learning about conservation. He used stage names like “Aarron Alex,” “Cody Ryan,” and “Joe Exotic,” performing in malls and at fairs across Texas and Oklahoma and as far north as Green Bay, Wisconsin, where a newspaper ad described him as “Master Illusionist Joe Exotic.”
Soon Joe needed more employees to help run the zoo and the road show. In the summer of 2003, he hired a nineteen-year-old named John Finlay. He moved in with Joe, and within a month they were in a relationship.
By this point, Joe’s relationship with Hartpence was already breaking apart. Hartpence was addicted to drugs and alcohol and had become disillusioned with Joe’s intentions for the zoo. Hartpence wanted to see it become a rehab-and-release sanctuary, with large enclosures where the animals had room to roam. Joe, on the other hand, was increasingly buying new animals from breeders and breeding animals of his own for profit. In mid-2003, Hartpence walked into the office and found a piece of paper on his desk. It was a printed color photograph of the zoo’s largest tiger, Goliath, menacingly baring his teeth over a big slab of meat. “J. C.’s remains” was typed in white letters over the picture. Attached was a Post-it note that read: “If you don’t get your shit together, this is gonna be your reality.” Hartpence recognized the handwriting as Joe’s.
One night, Hartpence waited until Joe fell asleep, then pointed a loaded .45 and a .357 Magnum at his partner’s head. Joe woke up to the click of the guns cocking. “I want out,” Hartpence told him. “Are we clear?” Joe talked Hartpence into putting down his guns, then he called the police. Hartpence was arrested at the zoo and never returned.
As Joe’s zoo grew and his traveling show booked more events, he began to attract more scrutiny from animal rights groups and federal regulators. In July 2004, the Oklahoman published an article about a crippled lion cub named Angel that had been born at the zoo, a possible result of inbreeding. “No legitimate animal sanctuary would allow that to happen,” said one activist quoted in the piece. It was Carole Baskin.

In 2006 the U. S. Department of Agriculture suspended Joe’s license for two weeks and fined him $25,000 for a long list of violations, including failing to provide adequate veterinary care and failing to remove feces from animal enclosures. Later that year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals published a video showing what they alleged was mistreatment of the animals at Joe’s zoo and the animals that he used in the road show. PETA’s footage showed employees discussing irregular feeding schedules, swatting animals, and, in one case, striking a tiger with the butt of a rifle. The organization criticized the zoo for allegedly “churning out litters of tigers, lions, bears, and other exotic animals,” claiming that “some are deformed, likely because of inbreeding or inadequate nutrition for the mother during pregnancy.” Local and federal investigators arrived at the zoo to investigate the allegations, but ultimately no charges were filed.
By then the little 16-acre zoo had ballooned to hold more than one thousand animals (for comparison, the Dallas Zoo sits on 106 acres). There were more than a hundred tigers, plus lions, chimpanzees, leopards, baboons, alligators, and smaller reptiles. In 2001 the zoo reported total revenue of $117,022. By 2006 that number had grown to $539,320, the vast majority from donations. Alongside the growth of his nonprofit zoo, Joe expanded his for-profit ventures. In the zoo’s gift shop, he sold Joe Exotic–branded skin care products, alcohol, and condoms. Later, he opened a bar two miles down the road from the zoo called Safari Bar and then a pizza joint named Zooters. He was building a brand.

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More than a thousand miles from Joe’s zoo, in Tampa, Florida, animal rights activist Carole Baskin was increasingly paying attention to Joe’s exploits. Baskin was born at Lackland Air Force Base, in San Antonio. Raised in Florida, she had hoped to be a veterinarian someday. In 1991 she married Don Lewis, a wealthy real estate investor. The next year, Lewis bought her a bobcat named Windsong. Baskin and her husband had saved it from an animal auction, where one bidder told Baskin he planned to club the cat over the head and stuff it. Baskin and her husband quickly realized Windsong needed a playmate or else she would tear apart their home. They found a man in Minnesota who agreed to sell them a second bobcat. Baskin was horrified when they arrived and discovered a metal shed full of bobcats being bred and slaughtered for their fur. She and Lewis bought every cat they could take back with them, 56 in all.
Baskin and Lewis continued to buy exotic cats that were destined for death at the hands of fur traders—28 more in 1994, 22 in 1995. They acquired forty acres of land and built Big Cat Rescue, a sanctuary that, much like Joe’s zoo, continued to grow as people who owned big cats became disenchanted with the animals they had bought. As Baskin’s reputation grew, she became inundated with calls and emails from people asking if certain sanctuaries were legitimate or not and wondering where they should donate their animals. She eventually started a website where she compiled detailed reports on private zoos and sanctuaries. She called it 911AnimalAbuse.com. Its tagline: “Find out who the bad guys really are.”
Baskin had a controversial background of her own. Lewis, her husband, disappeared in 1997 and was never found. Baskin was not a suspect in Lewis’s disappearance, but she was accused in the media by Lewis’s children, amid a dispute over his estate. An article in People suggested she might have fed Lewis’s remains to the tigers—an unfounded theory that would repeatedly be propagated by Baskin’s growing list of enemies.
Many exotic animal owners and private zoo operators despised Baskin for tracking their USDA violations and alleged mistreatment of animals. She frequently faced retaliation. She once opened her mailbox to find it teeming with snakes. On another occasion, after a tense Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission hearing about feral cats, she was physically attacked in the parking lot.

Carole and Howard Baskin at Big Cat Rescue.
Courtesy of Big Cat Rescue
Nevertheless, she regularly searched for online news articles about traveling exotic animal acts and private roadside zoos like Joe’s and would write in the comment sections about why she believed what they were doing—breeding animals so that people could pay to pet the cubs—was wrong. In 2010 she realized she was often reading about the same traveling act—Joe Exotic’s, under his various stage names. She mobilized her growing list of followers to email the malls Joe had booked, to warn them about what she believed was his unethical behavior.
Then she began to receive concerning phone calls and emails. People were asking her why her sanctuary was sponsoring traveling road shows that allowed cub petting—something it didn’t do. Baskin soon realized what was happening: Joe had begun using the Big Cat Rescue name and logo to advertise his shows. In January 2011 she sued him in federal court for trademark infringement.
“IF YOU THINK FOR ONE MINUTE I WAS NUTS BEFORE, I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS EXOTIC ANIMAL OWNER ON THIS PLANET RIGHT NOW.”
As the court battle dragged on that year, Joe—who had begun to refer to himself as the Tiger King—started posting frequent tirades about Baskin online. Joe had built a television studio at his zoo and had been regularly broadcasting episodes of Joe Exotic TV on a website he created. On Christmas Day in 2011, Joe left a comment beneath an article about the zoo by a local news station in Oklahoma: “Dear Carole Baskin,” he began, “You should watch my show this tuesday as it is going to be about your back yard zoo, [and] why you have not found your husbands body . . . The next time you step foot in my business, you better run and hide real far and fast, and this is a promise to you for Christmas. You want to take this BS to the next level, lets play. See if your up to it . . . You dont know just how crazy I can be.”
Travis Maldonado arrived at Joe’s zoo in December 2013. He had struggled with meth addiction back home in California, and one of Joe’s employees suggested he take Maldonado in, thinking that working around animals would help him recover. Joe took a liking to Maldonado right away, and less than a month later, he, Maldonado, and Finlay were wedded in a three-way ceremony in a dance hall across the street from the zoo.
The ceremony was zoo-themed. The cake was orange with black tiger stripes, decorated with miniature chocolate cowboy boots and crocodiles made out of butterscotch. Some of the “flower girls” were monkeys. The ring bearer was a Celebes crested macaque. The three men wore pink button-down shirts and black pants. A candle near the altar was lit in memory of Garold.

In early 2014, Joe wed Travis Maldonado, left, and John Finlay, right, in an unofficial three-way ceremony across the street from the zoo.
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The wedding was a high point in what otherwise turned out to be a tough year for Joe. For one thing, his relationship with Finlay soon began to fall apart. Finlay felt that Joe had become manipulative and controlling. And the park dominated their lives; they rarely left it for anything that wasn’t work-related. Joe had also become obsessed with his web TV episodes gaining more views, and he relied on increasingly wild stunts to drum up excitement. Finlay had seen enough and was ready to leave. It was a messy breakup. On August 18, 2014, Finlay attacked Joe in the back parking lot. He was arrested and charged with assault and battery.
Worse than losing another lover, Joe had lost the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Baskin, and as a result he owed her $1 million. He filed for bankruptcy, dissolved the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Foundation Memorial Park, which was registered under his name, and had his associates form a new entity, called the G. W. Interactive Zoological Foundation, which temporarily kept the park safe from Baskin’s collection efforts.
Meanwhile, Joe had become increasingly paranoid that animal rights groups were sending spies to the zoo. He repeatedly posted social media photos and videos of himself firing weapons and toying with explosives, warning animal rights activists, “Don’t fuck with me.”
He also frequently addressed Baskin from his TV studio at the zoo. “For Carole and all of her friends that are watching out there, if you think for one minute I was nuts before, I am the most dangerous exotic animal owner on this planet right now,” Joe had said in 2012. “And before you bring me down, it is my belief that you will stop breathing. Got that?”
During another episode, in February 2014, Joe brought out a blow-up doll with a blond wig, apparently a crude rendering of Baskin. “You wanna know why Carole Baskin better never, ever, ever see me face-to-face ever, ever, ever again?” Joe asked, before suddenly raising a pistol to the doll’s head and pulling the trigger. There was a loud bang, and the doll keeled over. “That is how sick and tired of this shit I am,” Joe said. “Have a great night, ladies and gentlemen, and I will see you tomorrow night.”
On March 26, 2015, the alligator compound at the zoo exploded in fire. All of the alligators but one were boiled alive. Also lost in the blaze, according to Joe, was his TV studio. Local investigators speculated that the fire was the result of arson. No one was ever arrested, but Joe claimed animal rights activists “targeted the studio to shut me up.”
By then, Joe had been moving toward a settlement that would have ended Baskin’s continuing litigation to collect the $1 million judgment. After a ten-hour-long mediation hearing in downtown Oklahoma City, the parties reached an agreement: Joe would pay modest monthly payments toward the $1 million judgment. He would keep the zoo but could no longer offer cub petting and would stop breeding big cats. Baskin’s lawyers sent a draft of the agreement to Joe’s attorneys, thinking their legal saga was nearly over.
Days went by, and they heard no response from Joe or his attorneys. The mediator set up a conference call with Joe and his legal team on November 12, 2015, to see what was holding things up. An unfamiliar voice came over the line: “There is no deal. We’re not doing this deal.” Someone asked who was speaking. “Jeff Lowe,” the voice said.
Joe first met Lowe around June 2015, when Lowe stopped by the zoo to buy a baby tiliger cub. Joe had marveled as Lowe pulled up in a Hummer towing a trailer that had once been owned by Evel Knievel; Lowe had once managed Evel’s son Robbie. He paid $7,500 cash for the tiliger and told Joe that he planned to open a sanctuary in Colorado. Lowe invited Joe and Maldonado to his house there in September of that year. (The law had changed and they’d legally wed; the trip was their honeymoon.) They went skydiving and hung around the pool. Joe was having health problems, and he had become increasingly worried about what would happen to the zoo if he died or could no longer manage it. According to Joe, Lowe offered to put the zoo in his name, to ensure it never went to Baskin.
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Jeff and Lauren Lowe at the zoo late last year, with a tiger-lion hybrid named Faith.
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Joe agreed, believing he had found a wealthy benefactor. Lowe had his own shady history, though. In 2007 he was sued by the musician Prince for allegedly selling clothes with Prince’s trademarked symbol on them. The next year, Lowe pleaded guilty to federal mail-fraud charges after he posed as an employee of a charity for domestic abuse victims to obtain $1 million worth of merchandise that he later resold.
Lowe moved to the zoo in Oklahoma and lived with Joe in the main house while waiting for his own residence to be built on the property. Within a few months, however, the relationship between the two men soured. Both men had strong personalities, and tensions were high now that they shared the same space and essentially co-owned the zoo. Meanwhile, Baskin’s continued attempts to collect on the $1 million judgment only agitated Joe more.
Around the same time, a former Dallas strip club owner named James Garretson started spending time around the zoo. He had decided he wanted to open an exotic animal–themed bed-and-breakfast, so he purchased several tigers. According to Garretson, Joe asked him if he knew any hit men. (Garretson figured Joe thought he was connected to the crime world because he sometimes brought around people with lots of tattoos.) Joe told him he wanted to have Baskin killed and said he could offer $10,000 for the job. Garretson dismissively told Joe that he’d look around, but he never did.
In February 2017, a new employee at the zoo, Ashley Webster, walked up to say hello to Joe and Lowe and overheard them talking about Baskin. Joe turned to Webster and asked if she’d travel to Florida and put a bullet in Baskin’s head for a few thousand dollars. Webster became uncomfortable, and she laughed it off to get out of the conversation. But she believed Joe was serious.
About two weeks later, Webster quit her job and left a voicemail for Baskin, warning her of Joe’s latest threats. “I just wanted to apologize to you because I have believed the bullshit that Joe Exotic has said,” Webster declared. “I am currently here at his place right now, and I’m leaving . . . He was actually talking about paying someone to kill you. He tried to get me to do it. I’m not going to fucking do that . . . He was offering, like, a couple of thousand dollars. I feel like your life is in danger.”
Baskin turned the voice mail over to her attorney, and it made its way to Special Agent Matthew Bryant with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which had been investigating Joe and the zoo for potential wildlife crimes. Murder for hire was not a crime he typically saw. After hearing Webster’s voice mail, he met with FBI agent Andrew Fairbow and some federal prosecutors.
In late August, Garretson stopped by Joe’s office, where Lowe pulled up a map on a computer that detailed Baskin’s property in Tampa. “He started showing me easy ways to kill her,” Garretson said later. Lowe noted Baskin’s favored bike paths, pointed out the location of the gift shop at her sanctuary, and showed images of her house, which sat isolated at the edge of an inlet. Joe then came in and placed a thick manila folder on the desk. He said it contained detailed information on Baskin.
It’s unclear whether Lowe was seriously plotting to end Baskin’s life. If he was, Garretson learned, he was also working other angles. Later that same month, according to Garretson, Lowe suggested he call Baskin behind Joe’s back and ask if she wanted to purchase the zoo. Lowe said that if the zoo sold, he’d give Garretson $100,000. He told Garretson to let Baskin know that all of Joe’s files and computers would be included in the sale. Lowe told Garretson he was offering Joe up to Baskin on a silver platter.
Garretson never heard back from Baskin. But he did receive a phone call from Bryant, the USFWS agent. They set up a meeting for September. By this point, Garretson had come to dislike Joe. He believed Joe had been mistreating the animals, and he had become unnerved by the constant threats against Baskin and drama at the zoo.
JOE SELECTED FIVE AGING TIGERS AND KILLED THEM ONE BY ONE, FIRING A SHOTGUN INTO THEIR SKULLS.
When Bryant asked Garretson to be a confidential informant, he agreed. Bryant showed Garretson how to work a concealed recording device so he could capture his conversations on video, and an audio recorder so he could tape phone calls.
Bryant had a plan to set Joe up with an undercover agent posing as a hit man. If Garretson could convince Joe to hire the undercover agent, they would gain control over the situation, rather than having to discover and try to stop any plot that Joe may have been working on in secret.
On September 29, 2017, Garretson recorded his first conversation with Joe since signing on as a confidential informant. He met Joe outside his office at the zoo.
“When is she ever gonna fucking stop?” Garretson said, referring to Baskin.
“She won’t until somebody shoots her,” Joe replied. “Her day is coming, man.”
On October 6, 2017, Joe’s phone rang with news of another disaster at the zoo. His husband, Travis Maldonado, was dead. “My entire soul died,” Joe said later.
According to Joe, Maldonado had been joking around with the staff of the zoo’s gift shop. He was showing off his Ruger pistol. In an effort to prove something he thought he had read on the internet, he took the magazine out of the gun and, knowing there was a bullet in the chamber, held it up to his head, believing that if he pulled the trigger it would not fire. He was wrong. Maldonado died before the first responders arrived. He was 23 years old.
Local news reporters descended on the park, and Joe held a press conference at the zoo the next day. Standing in front of a backdrop covered in Joe Exotic TV logos, he wore a pink button-down shirt, similar to the one he wore on the day he and Maldonado were married. He was inconsolable as he explained that the shooting was accidental, not a suicide.
Late one night, not long after Maldonado’s death, John Finlay got a phone call from Joe. Finlay, the estranged third member of Joe’s three-way union, had come back into Joe’s orbit eventually and now managed the Safari Bar. He couldn’t understand what Joe was saying, but he could hear that Joe was crying uncontrollably. Finlay drove over to Joe’s house. He searched the living room, the kitchen, and two bedrooms but found no sign of Joe. Finlay finally discovered Joe sitting in the converted garage. He was sobbing, and he held a cellphone in one hand and a gun in the other. He had shot at a television screen nearby.
After that, Joe began to lose his drive to run the zoo. The man he had believed to be his fiscal savior, Jeff Lowe, had turned out to be a far more combative associate than he had expected, and the zoo had fallen into a state of constant crisis. It was hard for Joe to find peace. He would often walk the grounds in the early morning, gazing up into the clouds, hoping to see Maldonado’s face. Then he’d look around and see the rows of cages filled with tigers. Joe came to believe that the zoo no longer represented what he’d wanted it to be when he first opened it in his brother’s memory. “I have all these animals on display, suffering, so I can suck donations out of people,” he later testified.

Joe created a TV studio at the zoo and regularly broadcast his shows, ‘Joe Exotic TV’ and ‘Joe Gone Wild,’ on the internet.
Courtesy of Joe Exotic
One evening in October 2017, Joe was expecting a shipment of animals from a circus manager who had been paying Joe to board his cats in the off-season. According to Erik Cowie, a longtime zoo employee, Joe needed to make cage space for the incoming animals. There were some new employees on hand, and Joe told Cowie to lead them away from the tiger cages. Joe then selected five aging tigers and killed them one by one, firing a shotgun into their skulls.
Cowie had been in charge of caring for the tigers—Samson, Delilah, Lauren, Trinity, and Cuddles—and he thought they were perfectly healthy. Once the gunshots ended, Joe emerged from the tiger cages. “Jesus,” he said, “if I knew it was this easy, I’d just blast them all.”
If Joe was beginning to let go of the zoo and its animals, he wasn’t yet letting go of his war with Carole Baskin. One of the zoo’s new employees at the time was a maintenance man named Allen Glover who had worked for Lowe before. A sixth grade dropout with a long list of felony convictions, he had a teardrop tattoo under his eye that he got while serving time in Louisiana. According to Glover, one night at around 11 p.m., he had just gotten off of work and was returning to his trailer on the property, when he found Joe on the front porch of the gift shop. Glover had often heard Joe talk about Baskin, and now his new boss was asking him to kill her. Glover figured his tattoo—sometimes interpreted as a symbol of having killed before—gave Joe the idea. According to Glover, Joe offered $5,000 up front for the job. Glover said yes. Joe strategized about how it should be done, suggesting Glover use a crossbow or a long-range rifle and target her while she took one of her long walks on the trail outside her house.
When Garretson caught wind of the plot, he wasn’t sure what to make of it. He called Lowe to get some more information about Glover and again recorded the conversation. “He’s serious, but I don’t think he’s capable without fucking it up,” Lowe told Garretson. “He’s reckless. He’s careless . . . This whole fucking crew is like a clown assassin.”
That same day, Garretson recorded a phone call with Joe. They discussed the Glover plot. “As long as we don’t get caught red-handed, we got this,” Joe told Garretson. “But if they bust him red-handed, me and Jeff got our story down to where we fired him and he just went off the deep end.”
According to Glover, one day in mid-November Joe handed him an envelope stuffed with cash. Glover went back to his trailer to count it. It was $3,000, not the $5,000 they had agreed on, but Glover didn’t care. He didn’t trust Joe, and he just wanted to leave.
The plan, as far as Garretson knew, had been for Glover to buy a bus ticket, travel to Tampa, and kill Baskin. Garretson had relayed that information to Bryant. They planned to stake out the zoo and several local bus stations on the day Glover had said he was going to leave. When Glover got on the bus, they’d arrest him and Joe.
But Glover had a bad back, and he wasn’t about to travel across the country by bus. When he departed from the airport in Oklahoma City on November 25, 2017, bound for South Carolina, Garretson and the feds were out of the loop.
Without knowing Glover’s whereabouts, agents Bryant and Fairbow decided to call Baskin and warn her. They informed her there was an “imminent threat,” but they couldn’t tell her much more. Baskin began to take precautions. She installed blinds in her house so potential snipers couldn’t see inside. She installed security cameras on the property. She used to ride her bike to work every day along the trail. Now she avoided it.
She worried her mailbox could be rigged with explosives. She steered clear of vans entirely, afraid she might be kidnapped. If she walked out of the grocery store and saw someone had parked next to her, she went back inside and waited until the car left. She began carrying a gun, and she kept it by her bedside every night. No place felt safe. One night Baskin heard what sounded like someone tearing through the screen on her back porch. There’s somebody here to kill me, she thought. It turned out to be neighborhood dogs. Weeks passed without incident. Joe, meanwhile, hadn’t heard from Glover.
Glover later testified that he never even made it to Tampa. He said he had no intention to kill Baskin and only wanted to rip Joe off. After arriving in South Carolina, however, he figured he should probably warn Baskin—in person. He drove down to Florida. He was drunk and high the entire way. He pulled off somewhere, blew a bunch of the money Joe gave him partying on the beach, woke up the next morning in an unfamiliar hotel room, and drove back to South Carolina. He never contacted Baskin.
It became clear to Joe that Glover was not going to carry out the hit, and Garretson finally arranged a meeting between Joe and the undercover agent posing as a hit man.
The fake hit man, “Mark,” arrived at the zoo on December 8, 2017. Garretson recorded their conversation. Joe explained that he needed time to raise enough money. It was the winter season, and attendance was typically low, but he was waiting on a litter of cubs. He offered Mark $10,000 total, $5,000 of it up front. “That bitch has just got to go away,” he said. “Just follow her into a mall parking lot, cap her, and drive off.”
Joe didn’t have the money to pay Mark yet, and no money exchanged hands. Garretson tried to set up another meeting, hoping to capture Joe exchanging money with Mark, but Joe was preoccupied. Three days after the meeting with Mark, Joe was getting married again, this time to Dillon Passage, a young man from Austin. Over the next few months, Garretson recorded several more conversations with Joe, but Joe repeatedly said that he had not yet come up with the money.
Then, in April, Jeff Lowe returned to the zoo after spending some time in Las Vegas. He and Joe quickly had a falling-out. Joe stopped talking to Garretson too. By summer, everything had come to a head for Joe: the legal battering by Baskin, his contentious business partnership with Lowe, the death of Maldonado, and his failing faith in the mission of his own zoo. Then an employee alerted him to a physical altercation between Lowe and Dillon in the parking lot. That was the last straw.
One day in June, he packed up everything he could fit into a trailer, left the zoo, and rented a house with Dillon in nearby Yukon, Oklahoma. Everywhere he went in search of a job, people recognized him as Joe Exotic. He couldn’t buy gas, and he couldn’t even go to Walmart without people hounding him for selfies and autographs. It was hardly a clean break. He asked Dillon where he would want to live if they could go anywhere. Dillon said he wanted to live on the beach. So in August they packed up again and this time left for Florida.
Joe Exotic arrived in the courtroom at the federal courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City for the first day of his trial in March 2019 wearing a gray suit with a tie and dress shoes. It was odd to see him dressed like that—he typically wore a flashy button-down shirt and a baseball cap or a fringed jacket. He still had his blond mullet.
He stood accused of attempted murder for hire and of violating federal regulations that protected exotic animals. Erik Cowie testified on the first day of the trial. He told the jury about the five tigers that Joe had killed. He talked briefly about caring for Cuddles, who he called “a clown.” He said he watched as a new tiger filled Cuddles’ s empty cage. Prosecutors showed photos of tiger carcasses that federal agents dug up in the back of the zoo. One Fish and Wildlife Service agent testified that they were stuffed in their graves like “hot dogs in a pack.” It was a devastating beginning to Joe’s trial.
Baskin sat in the back row. She was still afraid for her life; federal agents escorted her between her hotel and the courthouse. She testified as the prosecutors exhibited dozens of Joe’s graphic threats. She was composed on the stand and pointed out that what had been shown in court was just a “very, very small sampling” of what he had said about her over the years. “I believe he blames me for everything that goes wrong in his life.”
The prosecutors called a string of Joe’s former compatriots from the exotic animal industry, who testified that they had bought and sold exotic animals in transactions with Joe, often by fudging USDA paperwork. James Garretson testified, and his recorded conversations with Joe were played in court. The jury repeatedly heard Joe say that he wanted Baskin dead. “Just roll that fat bitch into the ocean,” Joe said on one of those recordings.
When Allen Glover, the would-be hit man who ran off with the money, took the stand, he was gruff and rude and easily confused. He explained that he wanted all along to take Joe’s money and run. He said he let Joe believe his teardrop tattoo meant he had killed before, when really it was meant to memorialize his late grandmother. “To get that money from Joe, I’d let him believe anything he wanted,” Glover said.
Joe took the stand on the trial’s sixth day. He gave rambling testimony, claiming he’d been set up by Jeff Lowe, who wanted to kick him out of the zoo behind his back. He accused Lowe, Garretson, and Glover of conspiring against him and of running various criminal schemes from the zoo. He said Lowe told him to give Glover $3,000 so that Glover could travel to South Carolina, and that he did it because he thought it would get Glover out of his hair.
Joe admitted to shooting the five tigers. He said it was because they were old and in poor health. Euthanasia by gunshot, he noted, is legal. “In twenty years I’ve had fifty plus tigers buried in that back pasture, and nobody gives a damn. Nobody.”
When confronted with his own recorded statements—the many threats against Baskin, his discussions about the Glover murder plot, and his discussions with the undercover hit man—he said he knew that Lowe and Garretson had been up to something and that he was playing along only to gather evidence. He accused Lowe of everything from drug use to sex trafficking. Lowe’s name was mentioned repeatedly during the trial, but he was never called to testify. Lowe declined to comment for this story, claiming he had sold his exclusive life rights to Netflix. (He hadn’t.)
In her closing statements, the lead prosecutor, Amanda Green, urged the jury not to believe Joe’s story. “The Tiger King: that’s how [Joe] has marketed himself and lived his life,” she said. “But here’s the thing with kings—they start to believe they’re above the law.” The jury wasn’t swayed by Joe, and on April 2 he was convicted on all counts. He may go to prison for twenty years. He accepted the verdict silently, staring straight ahead into the distance.
Baskin wasn’t in the courtroom to see it. She left after three days of the trial. Back at her sanctuary, in Tampa, she was relieved when the verdict came in. We spoke a week after the trial, in the living room of a small ranch house at Big Cat Rescue, surrounded by wall art depicting exotic cats. She hoped that if Joe were handed a strict sentence, it might deter others in the exotic animal industry from operating zoos like his. Yet it troubled her that Joe, even from jail, had remained involved in the exotic animal business. In a recording that was played during the trial, he appeared to be brokering the sale of some lion cubs through Dillon.

Courtesy of Big Cat Rescue
I spoke to Joe’s ex John Finlay too, in late March. He was living in a Motel 6 off I-35 in Oklahoma. He’d found work as a welder, and he lay underneath the covers on his bed as he spoke to me. He had the name of his favorite tiger from the zoo, Ledoux, tattooed on his stomach. He told me Joe had ruined his life, but he was hopeful about having the chance to start over. “This is going to be the beginning of my life without him in it,” he said.
J. C. Hartpence, Joe’s second partner, was not so fortunate. He spoke to me after the trial by phone from the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility, in Kansas. After he left the zoo, his life continued on a downward spiral. He was convicted in 2006 of molesting a child younger than fourteen, and he murdered a man in Kansas in 2014. He could spend the rest of his life in prison.
A week after the trial, I began talking to Joe on the phone from the Grady County Jail, where he was awaiting sentencing. At first he was reserved. He hardly resembled the bombastic man I had watched on the witness stand and in his many videos. He told me of his childhood, about his loveless family. He told me he was sexually abused when he was five. He spoke fondly of the early days of the zoo and seemed proud of the animals he had rescued.
I asked him if he regretted posting any of the things he had about Baskin. He said no, explaining that he had to act tough online in the face of hostile animal rights activists. He reiterated his claims that he was framed, and he questioned the motives of the prosecutors. “Am I in jail until they can shut down this industry, or am I taking the rap for all these other people?” His voice rose, and his tone grew darker. “Come hell or high water, at some point, I’m gonna make world news, okay? Something’s gonna change in the name of Joe Exotic.” I asked him what he meant. “This is a recorded telephone, so I’m not gonna tell you that,” Joe said. “But at some point, bet your ass, I’m gonna make world news.”
I visited the zoo the day after Joe was convicted. It was 11:30 in the morning on a Wednesday, and I was the only visitor there. Signs warned every few feet of surveillance cameras and armed guards. Many of the cages were empty, and the ones that weren’t held cats that paced aimlessly inside their small enclosures. There were piles of dried feces in some of the cages. It took me about twenty minutes to walk slowly through the zoo.
Tacked onto many of the enclosures were faded placards from donors, often memorializing the dead. “This compound is in loving memory of Grace Maples. We loved you best. Robbie, Tena and Cameron Wilson, Ft. Worth, TX,” read one. “This Tiger Complex was Built in Loving Memory of Jarrod ‘Willis’ Hurley,” read another. “May your spirit be free.”
It was a reminder of what the zoo could have been and of what Joe once supposedly wanted it to be: a living memorial, a sanctuary from the tragedies in life, both animal and human. One person not memorialized anywhere at the zoo was the Tiger King. Joe’s face had been scrubbed from the property. Even the billboards on I-35 had been taken down. Somewhere in the back pasture, there were more than fifty dead tigers. There was no memorial for them either.
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Meet Joe Exotic. He is the former owner of the G.W. Exotic Animal Memorial Foundation (Now the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park), former magician, former gubernatorial/presidential candidate, and current inmate awaiting trial after being indicted by a grand jury for attempting to hire a hitman to murder an animal activist in Florida. The story of the events leading to where he is today is a tragic one that would almost make you feel sorry for him.

Keyword: Almost

Joe Running the Park

Joe's story begins in the late 90s when he founded an exotic animal park named after his late brother, Gerald Wayne Schreibvogel, who was killed by a drunk driver. Since its founding, his park has taken in numerous exotic animals such as lions, tigers, and bears
WYNNEWOOD, Oklahoma - A group from GW Zoo took in several tigers and bears on Saturday afternoon after the animals' owners decided they could no longer provide adequate care.


The group led by Kelci Saffery, who lost part of her arm when a tiger bit her at the zoo, took in two tigers, two bears and two bear cubs. Saffery said the owner of the animals contacted GW Zoo and asked for help.


"He was responsible enough to admit that he just can't do it on his own anymore," she explained. "It's all about giving the animal a better option."


The zoo has come under fire in the past from some animal rights groups, but Saffery told News 9 that the work she does at the park is important because they take in many animals from private owners who cannot properly care for them.


10/7/2013 Related Story: GW Exotic Animal Park Identifies Employee Injured In Tiger Mauling


"I'm doing what's best for them," said Saffery. "They can't return to the wild because of something we did, because we put them in captivity at one point and when I say we, I mean the human populations in general."


The group took a look at the animals when they first arrived at the proper near Luther, Okla. Saffery said the tigers are very thin. That was a sign the big cats needed more care than they were getting.


The retrieval effort gets underway once the group devised a plan to safely remove the animals from their small pens and into holding crates for transportation. After an hour and a half, with a lot of improvising, all of the animals were safely in the trailers and ready to head to their new home. Final paperwork sealed the deal.


Saffery said that the animals would visit with a veterinarian once they got to GW Zoo in Wynnewood. A vet there would examine the animals and make a plan to ensure there are not major health concerns. Saffery was confident that the animals would all return to full health with proper nutrition and vet care.


12/25/2013 Related Story: Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park Breeds Nation's First 'Liligers'


As the group prepared to leave, there was one young bear that was not loaded up. Saffery advised the owners to move the bear to the largest pen on the property and said they would be back to retrieve the bear down the road.


"Unfortunately we are unable to take this one. We would love to give her a home, it's just right now it's not in our budget. But as soon as we raise the money and we can get her enclosure, then we'll come back for her because we hate leaving her."


The owner of the animals told News 9 that he knew he could not properly care for the animals for some time, but it was hard to make that call for help.

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which were originally purchased by dumb shits thinking it'd be cool to have a four hundred pound animal that eats a metric fuckton of meat every day.

Edit: While doing research for this thread, I stumbled upon a post from a site called zoochat.com (as far as I can tell, they're not zoosadists). One article a member discusses is called The Tiger King Untamed. The article itself does a great job chronicling a typical day at Joe's park. But the forum user made a list of things they observed from that article.

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There are two things in that list which stand out. One is that would sell "premium condoms." Here's a video of Joe promoting his Tiger Cub condoms, which he made "for the little guys." This is immediately followed by an ad for his own special male enhancement gel.



The second thing to note is his gay three way wedding. In addition to the visibly uncomfortable guests, they feature flamboyantly dressed monkeys.


In addition to his condoms, he also had other "specialty" products for sale. They include the following.

Tiger King Adult Diapers


Tiger King Underwear


And he made a video of animals fucking in his park because why not.


But since its founding, he and his park has had numerous problems with the USDA and several animal rights groups trying to shut his park down. A website called 911animalabuse.com has compiled a list of violations the USDA has filed against the park as well as allegations raised by said animal rights groups.

In July 25, 2017 USDA licensees (We believe Beth Corley is just another alias for Joe because she hasn’t been reported at this facility since about 2011) at this facility were cited for failure to keep accurate acquisition and disposal records on the animals, including a lack of reporting who and where animals came from or went, and failure to keep an accurate census. Read the USDA violation.

On May 15, 2017 a tiger escaped her enclosure and was noticed wandering the grounds at feeding time. The tiger was reportedly shot to death by Joe. Read the USDA violation.

On October 19, 2016 licensees were cited for injury to a tiger due to feeding a large group of tigers in a single pen by throwing meat into the frenzy. They were also cited for rancid meat left to rot on top of the shade stands from the same practice. Reach the USDA violation.

On May 19, 2016 licensees were cited for failing to throw out medication that was two years passed the expiry date. A live mouse was seen on the floor of the lemur cage and a half eaten mouse was in the capuchin cage in the medical building. The report states there is no professional vermin control measure in practice. Instead they said they put out poison…poison that could be consumed by the rats and then by the primates. Read the USDA violations.

On February 1, 2016 Joe Maldonado was cited for failure to provide sufficient barriers between the public and adult lions and tigers. He was also cited for rusting metal panels in the baboon enclosure that had sharp edges around the hole that could harm the primates. Read his USDA violations.

On the same day, Feb. 1, 2016 Beth Corley (We believe Beth Corley is just another alias for Joe because she hasn’t been reported at this facility since about 2011) was blamed for not including 14 tigers in the census that came from Serenity Springs on 12/18/15. Read that USDA violation.

In November 2015 Schreibvogel / Maldonado was cited for dangerous conditions for his cubs who were being raised in a room with “live, bare electrical wires” and glass window panes within reach of the cubs that could provide both injury or a way of escape. He was also cited for improper handling of food for the animals. Records indicate 99 tigers at this time. Read the USDA violation.

In August 2015 Schreibvogel / Maldonado was cited for displaying a 19 day old liger cub at the Mississippi State Fair. Read the USDA violation.

In July 2015 Schreibvogel / Maldonado was cited for fly infestation, filthy food bowls, inadequate methods of temperature control for primates, unsafe fencing and more. Read the USDA violations.

In March 2015 Schreibvogel / Maldonado was cited for a “trail of rodent droppings” on the rails between cages, food stored on the floors, dirty food receptacles, rotting meat on top of the cages, where keepers had apparently tried to throw it into the cages and failed, a decomposing rat that was intended as food, no shade for a tiger named Batista and more. Read the USDA violations.

In August 2014 Schreibvogel was cited for standing water, food and waste in an open ditch next to the primates, described by the inspector as “an open sewer,” unsafe caging, “numerous wasps” in the primate shed, tigers being kept in a cage where the gate hinge had “rusted through”, “significant” rust in a support pole, no water and no water bowls in the grizzly cage, rancid meat on the floor of the tiger cage that was covered in maggots, numerous ants and food stuck in the feed chutes that was covered in ants. At this time records show 100 tigers. Twenty one more tigers than just 5 months ago. Read the USDA violations.

In April 2014 Schreibvogel was cited because a bear, named Crybaby, had been injured on April 2, resulting in a 4-8 inch long laceration. The vet was said to have stitched up the bear, but the wound was reopened 3 days later. Apparently Joe re stitched the bear, without the vet, but on April 14 workers reported that the wound was open. The vet came on April 15 and euthanized the bear. He was cited for failing to have the vet care for the injured bear between April 5 and April 15.

In March 2014 Schreibvogel was cited for inadequate vet care, rusty cages with sharp, protruding edges, a missing plank in the tiger’s walkway and exposed screw. At this time Joe claimed to own 79 tigers, which is 15 fewer tigers than this same time last year. Read the USDA violations.

In March 2013 Schreibvogel was cited for fencing and a gate that was leaning and sagging and could provide a means of escape, a broken roof in a tiger’s enclosure, inadequate shade. At this time records indicated 94 tigers. Read the USDA violations.

In January 2006 Schreibvogel consented to a $25,000 fine and a probation period. Based on inspections since, hopefully conditions have improved. But, for over five years before USDA forced changes, the animals Joe “rescued” were subjected to the horrible conditions USDA cited.

In September 2009 USDA issued a warning notice for alleged violations of the AWA handling requirements stemming from separate incidents that occurred in 2007 and 2008, one involving a customer injured by a lion cub.

On September 13, 2011 Schreibvogel was cited by USDA for failing to provide veterinary care to two animals.

On December 1, 2011 Schreibvogel was cited by USDA for improper handling related to an incident in September 2011 at GW Park where young boy was injured by a tiger cub.

23 CUBS DIED AT GW PARK

Schreibvogel is currently under investigation by USDA for the deaths of 23 tiger cubs and separately for other possible violations of the AWA. The cubs died between April 2009 and May 2010 according to what Joe’s people reported to the FDA. Any responsible facility would have done necropsies on the initial deaths. Joe finally did necropsies on one or two of the last cubs to die and called in FDA to test the formula. The necropsies indicated curdled milk formula in the stomachs of the cubs. So, Joe insists that the cubs were killed by “bad formula.” But, the FDA testing of the samples Joe provided and of samples from the manufacturer found nothing wrong with the formula. This formula must be stored, handled, mixed and administered properly. Since FDA found nothing wrong with the formula itself, if the cubs did die from the formula, the most logical conclusion is that it was because Joe’s staff did not do one or more of these activities properly.

PETAphiles:

Between February and June 2006, a PETA investigator working at GW Exotics kept a log documenting a pattern of abuse. These included animals seriously injured from fighting, food dishes teeming with maggots, hungry animals who went without food, animals who were abused and beaten by staff. For instance, here are two examples from http://www.peta.org/features/gw-the-animals.aspx:



JULIE, THE THREE-LEGGED LION
On his first day on the job, PETA’s investigator met Julie, a three-legged lioness, who had a bloody, raw, and gaping hole where her right front leg used to be. Julie had been attacked by two tigers who literally chewed and tore her leg off and then ate it. The remaining stump of her leg had to be amputated and when she pulled out the stitches, Julie’s open wound went untreated.Though she moaned and whimpered for days, she was given nothing for pain. Julie languished in a small and barren indoor cage on a concrete floor with nothing more than a small towel for comfort. Although she was bred and born at the zoo, [J1] tells people that he “rescued” Julie and that she was injured before coming to the zoo.



‘THE VEGAS TIGERS’
GW’s Holiday 2005 newsletter reported that the Fercos Bros., a Siegfried & Roy wannabe magic act in Las Vegas, gave the park two male tigers who had “outgrown” the stage. Two days after PETA’s investigator started working at the park, the “Vegas tigers,” as they were called, were killed by lethal injection because staff decided they were “mean.”

Reportedly, the tigers’ teeth were cut out, and one was decapitated and his head given to the veterinarian’s husband to be mounted. When the Fercos came to visit the tigers in June, they were told that the cats were killed when lightning struck their cage during a storm.

Below is a video by the investigator showing a dying horse left suffering, workers beating animals with tools, and a worker explaining how they forge the feeding log to say animals were fed that were not because USDA had no way to prove otherwise.

According to one report “PETA activists took their recordings to law enforcement, but no charges were filed after authorities said no criminal activity occurred in the videos they viewed. Federal agents inspected the park twice after the videos were released and found no violations. Schreibvogel claimed the PETA videos took out of context what was going on, but did admit he had fired four of the employees featured in the investigation.” Although authorities decided not to file criminal charges, it is hard to imagine the behavior in this video not being animal abuse no matter what the “context.”

OP's Note: PETA's commitment to animal welfare is questionable at best. Not only was the activist PETA sent to investigate GW in turn investigated for crimes he allegedly committed at the park, they are the only organization I can think of that has killed far more animals than they have saved. So take any accusation they make with a grain of salt.

Humane Society:

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WYNNEWOOD, Okla. -- Allegations of abuse and injuries are made against an Oklahoma exotic animal park.

This week the GW Animal Park in Wynnewood is under scrutiny by the Humane Society of the United States.

The undercover investigation claims the park is abusing animals, providing improper care and engaging in reckless breeding.

The outspoken park owner argues the Humane Society simply has a political agenda to close his zoo and others like it.

"The Humane Society doesn't want you to own these animals. Plain and simple," park owner Joe Schreibvogel said.

Getting up close with 170 big cats; that's the appeal of the GW Exotic Animal Park.

The owner said he'll die before anyone takes away those animals.

"Am I scared? Hell no. Is this worth dying over? Yeah," Schreibvogel said.

Joe can be seen in one undercover video smacking one tiger.

Another video shows a park employee punching a big cat.

A third shows a young boy scratched by a tiger cub.

"The video of the boy being scratched is the only incident this park has ever had of anybody getting scratched," Schreibvogel said.

Joe believes the videos are a set up by the Humane Society to discredit his park and pass tougher laws regulating ownership of exotic animals.

"Joe likes to say those things because he can't defend his bad practices, so he tries to divert attention," Cynthia Armstrong said, with the Humane Society of the United States. "I mean, what's going on there is not good."

Armstrong points out the animal park his a history of alleged problems.

It's currently under investigation by the USDA after the deaths of 23 tiger cubs and has been fined in the past for safety violations.

For now, the park is legal and licensed by the federal government.

"I'm inspected by five agencies, anytime they want. Nothing wrong is going on here," Schreibvogel said.

The Human Society of the United States is different from the Humane Society of Oklahoma.

Joe said he believes the national society is little more than a lobbying organization that doesn't actually shelter animals.

Despite these allegations, Joe persisted in running his park. Early on, he discovered first hand the expenses involved in running such a park. To cover these expenses, Joe toured the country as a magician putting on magic shows with his animals. One of the shows can be seen below.


His efforts didn't go unnoticed and he managed to attract celebrity attention. Below is a video of Shaq visiting his park.


However his day to day operations were affected by his behavior. In March of 2016, an Oklahoma news outlet reported that Joe would distribute condoms to crowds with kids at his park.

WYNNEWOOD, Okla. - A grandmother is concerned after condoms were reportedly handed out at a local zoo.

Now, she claims the self proclaimed 'Tiger King', better known as Joe Exotic, has some explaining to do.

Joseph Maldonado is no stranger to the news.

The Oklahoma presidential candidate is the operator of the Garold Wayne Interactive Zoo, located near Wynnewood.

The exotic animal park is a pristine spot for a child's spring break.

"Just spring break, we're getting them out of the house, take them out there," said Casey Harris.

Harris's 7-year-old daughter and a friend were taken to the zoo by their grandmothers, where they said Maldonado stopped by for a quick speech.

"He comes out to give his little spiel, and he used a little off color language," said one of the grandmothers, who wished to remain anonymous.

But, on the topic of his presidential run, she said the speech took a suggestive turn.

"Says that we need some of these buttons, and starts pitching them up in the crowd, to all ages of the children," she said. "A friend of mine, her granddaughter picks one up off the ground, and it's a condom."

It wasn't just any condom.

It was a 'Tiger King' condom, complete with directions of use on the back.

"They wanted to know ‘Why can’t we have it?'" she said. "All we could think of was, 'It's for little boys.'"

The Harris's said they will likely never go back to the GW Zoo.

For the family, the zoo is a place to learn about animals - not the birds and bees.

"We'll talk to her when it's time, but that's just not the place and time," Harris said.

Maldonado told NewsChannel 4 the condom tossing has been part of his zoo presentations for years.

It's used as an ice breaker between he and the crowd, which includes people of all ages.

He said he doesn't plan to stop the presentation any time soon.

JOE VS. FLORIDA ACTIVIST PT. 1

On March 4th, 2013, Oklahoma newspaper NewsOK reported that Joe was ordered by a court to pay Florida-based animal sanctuary Big Cat Rescue a million dollars in restitution after it was determined that his "logos and images were very similar to those created and owned by the Florida animal park."

The article also mentions that Joe simply planned to file bankruptcy and restart the park under a new name. True to his word, the G.W. Exotic Animal Park folded and was started anew as the Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park.

As the OP, I can only speculate how being forced to rebrand the park Joe started in his late brother's memory affected him. But we will later see the limits he was willing to go to in order to settle the score.

JOE EXOTIC'S POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS

In November of 2015, Joe announced he was running for president of the United States.
OKLAHOMA CITY - He’s the latest Oklahoman to announce his candidacy for president of the United States.

“Joe Exotic” as many people know him mailed his statement of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission late last week.

You may have seen him in the news before.

His name used to be Joe Schreibvogel, but he recently got married and took his husband’s name.

He is now Joseph Maldonado, running as an independent candidate for president of the US.

He runs GW’s Exotic Animal Park in Wynnewood.

We caught up with Maldonado and his husband at Will Rogers World Airport as they were flying out to Ohio Sunday afternoon.

Maldonado says he is having a press conference there on Monday afternoon and has tickets to attend Donald Trump’s rally there.

“What’s my chances of winning? Who knows, you know? Pretty slim. But I’m going to give them a run for their money,” he said.

Maldonado has been under fire by animal rights groups and has been fined in the past by the USDA.

But he says he’s already put all that out there and even addresses that in his 47th video he’s put out since deciding to run for president.

“You know all you people that are friends with Carol and the animal rights people and the people who don’t like me. Ya’ll go play somewhere else because right now we don’t even have time to respond to your bull----,” Maldonado said in his video posted to his Facebook page.

Maldonado says he has 17 million viewers on You Tube and that more than 38,000 all over the world watched his show last night on JoeExotic.tv.

While he says he may not have millions of dollars like Hilary Clinton or Trump, he does have people in every state committed to running campaign offices.

“It’s going to be a grassroots organization, grassroots campaign for the small people for a change,” said Maldonado.

Maldonado claims this is not a publicity stunt and that he is serious about the campaign.

It doesn’t bother him if he doesn’t look or act like the typical candidate.

“It shouldn’t be about my sexual preference. It shouldn’t be about the way I look. It shouldn’t be about anything else,” said Maldonado. “I’m not going to wear a suit. I’m not cutting my hair because I’m not going to be fake.”

Maldonado says some issues that are important to him are rights for veterans and health care.



And although he’s never held public office, he says he’s always been involved in politics and was a police chief at one point in time.



He says he currently has several websites under construction so that people can comment and let him know what they want to see done.
If one were to ask President Donald Trump what he thought of Joe, chances are he'd say he never heard of the guy.

However his failed presidential bid didn't stop him. He would later run for the Libertarian Party's nomination for governor of his state. As the results show, he couldn't pull a thousand votes.

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Not surpringly, he was censured by the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Libertarian Party of Oklahoma has voted to officially censure gubernatorial candidate Joseph Maldonado AKA Joe Exotic. The motion rose at the party’s state convention on March 31st in Seminole.

Newly elected Treasurer of the state party Chad Williams originated the motion, which was seconded by numerous delegates. The motion reads: “Motion to censure Joe Maldonado for actions which stand opposed to the non-aggression principle” The non-aggression principle is one of the core principles of the libertarian party, and states that one will not initiate force to achieve political or social goals.

The motion passed with minimal debate, with former Chair Tina Kelley cautioning the body for the precedent it would set. No delegates present voted against the censure, although numerous delegates did abstain.

Traci Baker Secretary of the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma

As an added bonus, he paid a thousand dollars to get into a Trump rally. To nobody's surprise, he got kicked out. (Note that he gives two conflicting accounts on why he was kicked out within three and a half minutes.)


DEATH OF HIS HUSBAND

A tragic event struck Joe on October 6th, 2017. His husband (he's gay) accidentally shot and killed himself at the park. While the death was deemed accidental, it would further serve to strain him.

JOE VS. FLORIDA ACTIVIST PT 2: MURDER FOR HIRE EDITION

I can't say for sure what led up to this particular event. Again, I can only speculate about the events that led to this. But People published an article about how his feud with Big Cat Sanctuary came to a head.

Oklahoma zookeeper and a one-time presidential candidate who calls himself Joe Exotic allegedly tried to have a woman running a big cat sanctuary killed.

On Friday, Joe Exotic, also known as Joseph Maldonado-Passage, Joseph Allen Maldonado and Joseph Allen Schreibvogel was indicted on two counts of hiring a person to commit murder, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release.

For the first count, according to the statement, the federal grand jury is accusing Maldonado-Passage, 55, of “hiring an unnamed person in November 2017 to murder ‘Jane Doe’ in Florida.”

Maldonado-Passage allegedly paid the unnamed person $3,000 to travel from Oklahoma to South Carolina and finally Florida to carry out the crime.

The grand jury also alleges that Maldonado-Passage even agreed to pay the hitman more money once the murder was complete. It is unclear at this time as to what happened after the hitman arrived in Florida, but the U.S. Department of Justice explained, “Jane Doe did not suffer any physical harm.”

For the second count, in July 2016, Maldonado-Passage “repeatedly asked a different unnamed person to find someone to murder Jane Doe in exchange for money.” However, instead of participating in the murder-for-hire plot, the person allegedly connected Maldonado-Passage with an undercover FBI agent.

Maldonado-Passage, who previously owned G.W. Exotic Animal Memorial Park, then met up with the undercover agent in December of last year to discuss the plan, authorities allege.

The zookeeper was arrested Friday in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Also on Friday, Maldonado-Passage appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Pensacola Division of the Northern District of Florida.

While Jane Doe’s identity has not been confirmed, Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin claims she was the murder target.

“It is important to understand that this is not the isolated act of one crazy bad apple,” Baskin wrote on Big Cat Rescue’s website. Big Cat Rescue is a sanctuary dedicated to caring for abandoned and abused cats and Baskin has been critical of Joe for many years.

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Joseph Maldonado-Passage
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“A significant part of our mission has been to stop mistreatment and exploitation of big cats at roadside zoos, particularly those who rip tiger cubs from their mothers at birth to charge the public to pet and take photos with them.”

“Because Big Cat Rescue has been a leader in working to stop what we view as abuse of big cats and been very effective in our work, I have received multiple death threats over the years, including at one point a number of snakes placed in my mailbox,” Baskin continued.

“Schreibvogel ran, in our view, one of the most notorious cub petting roadside zoos in the country in Wynnewood, OK. Years ago he also operated a traveling exhibit that would bring cubs to malls throughout the Midwest and Southwest.”

“When Big Cat Rescue educated the malls about the miserable life this created for the cubs and the malls starting cancelling Schreibvogel’s traveling exhibit, Schreibvogel retaliated by renaming his traveling show ‘Big Cat Rescue Entertainment’ in order to confuse the public into thinking the show was operated by Big Cat Rescue.”

“In 2011 Big Cat Rescue sued for violations of its intellectual property rights and in 2013 was granted a consent judgement for over $1 million. Litigation to collect on the judgement has been ongoing since then in Oklahoma,” Baskin continued.

Baskin concluded by thanking the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma and the U.S. Marshall’s Service “for the many months of incredibly hard work that went into this investigation and arrest.”

If found guilty of murder-for-hire, Maldonado-Passage “could be imprisoned on each count up to ten years. He would also be subject to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000 per count,” U.S. Department of Justice revealed in the statement.

Before his arrest, Maldonado-Passage first gained the public’s attention when he decided to run for president in 2016.

“I’m gay. I’ve had two boyfriends most of my life. I currently got legally married— thank you God it’s finally legal in America,” Maldonado-Passage said in a campaign video. “I’ve had some kinky sex. I’ve tried drugs through the younger years of my life. I’m broke as s—.”

Maldonado-Passage then explained he’s pro-choice, pro-LGBT rights and anti-gun reform.

In addition to his views, Maldonado-Passage mentioned his work with animals and how he’s “built one of the biggest facilities, and the nicest facilities, for exotic animals in this country, as far as a private individual goes.”

The outspoken zookeeper also added, “I have a judgement against me from some bitch down in Florida.” It was not clear if he was referring to Baskin.

He is facing two indictments for this incident.
Animal park operator and former gubernatorial candidate Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage is now facing 21 charges, including shooting and killing animals at his exotic animal park.

Maldonado-Passage, 55, was indicted in early September for allegedly hiring an unnamed person to murder a Florida woman.

Read Related Story: The Alleged Target Of ‘Joe Exotic’s’ Murder-For-Hire Plot Speaks Out

Now, according to court documents, Maldonado- Passage is being indicted on several violations of the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act related to working at the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park.

Court documents state, in order to make room for new "big cats", Maldonado- Passage emptied cages by shooting and killing endangered tigers and lions. He's also accused of unlawfully importing and exporting endangered species.


LATEST CHARGES: ACCUSATIONS OF KILLING ENDANGERED TIGERS

As of November 7th, 2018, Joe Exotic is facing a new set of charges. These include the illegal importing/exporting of endangered species as well as shooting endangered lions and tigers so he could make room for new animals in his park.
joe exotic indictment.pdf

Following the announcement of the new charges, Joe contacted a news station giving his side of the story. In it, he states that he "put five tigers to sleep" to ease their pain and suffering.




THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH:


It should be noted that Joe lost control of his park, which is now being run by an individual named Jeff Lowe. Being aware of the tainted legacy that Joe left behind, Jeff Lowe has stated he will move the zoo to a new location.
WYNNEWOOD, Okla. – The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park will be closing soon so the owners can open another zoo near Thackerville in 2019.

There is no definitive date on the closing or opening of the zoos, but the owner is hopeful the new zoo will be open in a number of months.

“The new property is amazing, and so much of it is already in place that we could realistically be open by Spring or sooner if the weather cooperates,” wrote Jeff Lowe, owner of the Wynnewood park, on Facebook.

They plan to expand their animal variety to elephants, rhinos, giraffes, and more.

Lowe said that they are already dismantling the zoo in preparation of moving near the Winstar Casino.

Former owner Joe Exotic’s home will also be demolished.

“We think it’s best to let this zoo, die with Joe’s conviction and not make the next generation of animals to live here, forever suffer his outrageous behavior and reputation. There is SO MUCH MORE to be revealed about Joe and his crimes against animals and we don’t want to be associated with him any longer.”

The owners say all of their current animals will be transferred to the new zoo.

So this is Joe Exotic. He was an eccentric gay man who built his identity around the animal park he named after his late brother. But somewhere along the way, tragedy after tragedy befell him and strain became so great that he snapped. Any sympathy he might have earned was squandered away through his bizarre behavior and actions which led to him losing everything he had.

The true victims in this story are the animals under his care. Animals who thankfully found a new owner willing to pick up the pieces of a shattered legacy. Even though the new owner will no doubt face his own trials, one can only hope they have a more stable future than the one Joe Exotic sought to give them.
 

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