<i><a href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_365440.html?menu=news.latestheadlines">'Tiger man' wants fur graft</a> A San Diego computer programmer who has spent £100,000 on tattoos and plastic surgery to turn himself into a 'tiger' wants a fur graft. <img src="http://www.ananova.com/images/news/tigerman410x336.jpg"> Dennis Smith is tattooed from head to toe with orange and black stripes and his teeth have been filed to needle point. He has also had latex whiskers implanted and surgery to his lips so he has a permanent snarl. He now wants a surgeon to graft tiger fur on to his skin, like a perma-wig. Mr Smith, who has changed his name by deed poll to Cat Man, said: "I have a collection of old tiger pelts from the days of hunting. I want these grafted on to me. It will cost another $100,000 but will be worth it. "When I have the coat of a tiger, I feel I will have reached my goal in life." His fingernails have been crafted into sharp talons while his hands have tattooed markings like a tiger's paws. He says he feels like a tiger. The short back-and-sides he sported at the University Of California has been replaced with a long orange mane. He has also swapped his glasses for green contact lenses. He holds down a £80,000-a-year computer programming job which enables him to fund the surgery, the Daily Record reports. He admitted: "Of course people stare at me when I walk down the street but that's the effect I desire. For so long I have equated myself with the tiger that I decided to change myself into one. "It's the real me. So many men cross-dress without their partners knowing, or dress up and play cowboys or Civil War soldiers at weekends. Me, I'm a tiger all the time and I love it. I had my first tattoos done 20 years ago around my eyes and now my whole body is one pastiche of stripes and shading. I am really proud of it all." Sign up to get more Animal Tales and Bad Taste stories from Ananova sent direct to your email inbox. Story filed: 11:52 Thursday 2nd August 2001 </i>
I'm with you dbc. I saw rockHEAD's robot-thingy Flash link and said "that's just stupid". Then I click this... and I said to myself "Well, I thought the robot thing was stupid". Can you imagine working in an IT department on the development staff with this guy? Project Manager : "We need to discuss the database migration over to the new server." Cat Man : "grrrr... roooaaarr... purrrr...." Project Manager : "Right. Tell ya what, you finish your Cat Chow and we'll reschedule the meeting for tomorrow." OR Imagine the look on his dentist's face when he walks in... There are just some strange people in the world...
Do you guys ever watch Ripleys ? There's a guy who turns himself into a lizard, pretty disgusting..........
