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A FRANTIC HUNT for what was believed to be a tiger has been scaled down after tracks left by the animal showed it was probably just a big cat.
Sightings of a large feline padding around wooded areas only 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Paris on Thursday sparked a desperate search operation involving at one point as many as 200 police and soldiers, backed by a helicopter.
Authorities initially claimed it was a tiger but subsequent investigations on the animal’s tracks showed it was probably much less dangerous.
“It’s between a domestic cat and a bigger feline,” said Eric Hansen from the national hunting and wildlife office ONCFS.
The mayor of the town of Montevrain, where the animal was first spotted on Thursday, estimated that the animal weighed around 70 kilogrammes (150 pounds).
But Hansen said it was likely to be about half this weight and probably “not dangerous”.
The hunt for the animal continues, but locals are taking no chances.
Montevrain resident Jean-Francois Ameur was taking no chances as he told his 12-year-old son to wait for a neighbour to pick him up from school in a car.
“It’s been running for 48 hours and it hasn’t eaten, so yes, I’m worried,” said Ameur.
- © AFP, 2014, additional reporting by Nicky Ryan
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For those wondering why it’s receving this much attention, basically it’s a hardware hackers dream come true. If it is a true development model then a jailbreak for the newest iPhone would be a breeze for them.
110% guarantee? Well that is enough for me.
I lost my job as a maths lecturer a few years back. Never understood why. I always gave 110%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl4QMS0Zh_w
You should enjoy this.
You’d be unwise to think that this isn’t worth the money. If a good developer can get a hold of it and alter the software they could make a lot more then 48k out of it.
They’d make there money back in months if used right,and can continue making money rapidly for at very least 18-26 months and who knows, it can continue making the buyer money for long time as it’s the latest phone they have that the diagnostics on, which is why price is so high,,
YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY TO MAKE MONEY
Best of luck to the buyer.
Probably just apple bidding to get it back and Samsung bidding against them to get hold of it.
48k … Get a life
Looks like kimberlyk1018 may end up facedown lying in some american wasteland if this sale goes ahead….
Provably someone from Apple buying it back
*probably
Can anyone else see the hidden box of Cherios in the images?
Madness to pay that to the ordinary joe soap.
But to a developer or hacker it’s priceless.
There’s no such thing as 110% :) Seriously though, why would anybody want this with no guarantee that it will make calls or that the camera will work? I wouldn’t give her a chip butty for that ….
The context was wrong, but no more wrong than your assertion that there is no such such thing as 110%. What is 11/10 expressed as a percentage?
^This.
And not sure if you’re serious regarding the camera and calls. If so…lol
You might have been sick the day we did 110% in school.
You wouldn’t see any other phone prototype fetch this price. It’s a tech geeks wet dream.
There’s already been over 100 bids!! Why??!
Some eejit will probably pay it tho !
Now €100k
Would be cool to have but definitely not at that price, If it’s authenticated as been real collectors will go nuts for it
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