"the third quarter of 1988. On October 3, 2003, during a show at the Mirage, Roy Horn was bitten on the neck and dragged by a seven year old male white tiger named Montecore. Crew members separated Horn from the tiger and rushed him to the only Level I trauma center in Nevada, University Medical Center. Horn was critically injured and sustained severe blood loss. While being taken to the hospital, Horn said, ""Montecore is a great cat. Make sure no harm comes to Montecore."" Horn told ""People Magazine"" in 2004 that Montecore ""saved his life"" by attempting to drag"
"him to safety after he suffered a stroke. The injury to Horn prompted the Mirage to close the show, and 267 cast and crew members were laid off. By March 2006, Horn was talking and walking, with assistance from Fischbacher, and appeared on Pat O'Brien's television news program ""The Insider"" to discuss his daily rehabilitation. In 2004, their act became the basis for the short lived television series ""Father of the Pride"". Right before its release, the series was almost cancelled until Siegfried & Roy urged NBC to continue production after Roy's injury from October 2003 improved. In February 2009,"
"a NASA flight surgeon. He also operated on boxer Duk Koo Kim in November 1982, following Kim's loss to Ray Mancini; Kim died as a result of his injuries in the fight. Following Roy Horn's near-fatal tiger attack in 2003, Hammargren spoke up to correct misinformation in the press about the procedure Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) had received. According to Hammargren, he gave up surgery in 2005, when the cost for his malpractice insurance was raised to $275,000/year; in 2009, as part of a medical malpractice settlement, he agreed to give up surgery permanently, though he retained his medical"
"as many as 10 times along its chest and neck. State veterinarians stated that the slash to its throat was most likely the fatal wound. Police later charged 26-year-old Scott Wade. Wade stumbled onto the Hogan farm drunk at the time of the slaying. Investigators believed Wade killed the ram because he was hungry. Wade was later charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty. On March 23, 2007, Jason Ray, a member of the UNC Chapel Hill cheerleading squad, was struck by a vehicle near a Hilton Hotel on Route 4 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The Tar Heel men's basketball team"
"been criticised for his lyrics calling for violence against gay people. In 2003 British LGBT group OutRage! called for the arrest and prosecution of several dancehall stars including Elephant Man, Bounty Killer and Beenie Man for violation of hate crimes statutes. In 2004, he was dropped from the MOBO awards. Since then pressure from his record company and agreement with gay rights groups to avoid songs with lyrics deemed to incite homophobic violence have allowed him to perform in the UK. In 2009, his scheduled appearance at Toronto's Caribana festival was cancelled for similar reasons. A concert in Munich was"
"fall at an Iron Maiden show and was all but unable to stand. The album had to be shelved for more than eight months (later released in 2005), however, when in 2004, Roy got the call to produce and mix Judas Priest's reunion album ""Angel of Retribution"". Shortly thereafter, Roy was tapped by former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach to produce his 2007 solo album, ""Angel Down"", which included a guest vocal appearance by Guns N' Roses mainman Axl Rose. In 2008, Roy and Rob Rock re-activated their long dormant band Driver and released their full-length debut, ""Sons of Thunder"","
"but later reformed in 2004. The group, however, officially disbanded in 2005. Two years prior, he formed a new group named Kapatid together with Nathan Azarcon (bass), J-Hoon Balbuena (drums), Ira Cruz (guitar) and Chico Molina (guitar). With Kapatid, he released the albums ""Kapatid"" (2003) and ""Luha"" (2006). Roy's rock image made him a crowd favorite. He was also popularly known for his eccentric behavior while performing on stage. In September 2007, shortly after returning home from the recording of a TV commercial for San Miguel's Red Horse Beer, Roy suffered a stroke, paralyzing the right side of his body."
"and was left with permanent disability in his speech and movement. Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl called the attack a national disgrace and requested that the team withdraw from the tournament. Markus Warnecke, a Braunschweig native in his late 20s, was arrested at the scene of the crime. He was a bouncer and tattoo artist, and an alleged far-right activist. Warnecke was tried in nearby Saint-Omer; the prosecution considered him the ringleader, while the defence claimed that photographic element refuted that. Facing a maximum sentence of 15 years, Warnecke was jailed for five in May 2001. He was banned from"
"The hotel's top five floors were used exclusively for high roller rooms and penthouse suites. The Mirage was the first new resort to be built on the Las Vegas Strip in 16 years, after the completion of the MGM Grand in 1973. When it opened, The Mirage was the first casino to use security cameras full-time on all table games. Starting in February 1990, The Mirage was the venue for the ""Siegfried & Roy"" show, held in the resort's 1,500-seat showroom. The two headliners combined magic and the use of wild animals. The show closed in 2003 after performer Roy"
"in the game, they won . Sonali Mukherjee Sonali Mukherjee is a woman from Dhanbad, India, whose face was permanently disfigured by an acid attack in 2003 when she was 18. Her family has spent all their savings on her treatment. Mukherjee was born in Dhanbad. She was a National Cadet Corps cadet, which she had to quit after her attack. In 2003, almost one and half months prior to the incident, three alleged assailants - Tapas Mitra, and his two friends Sanjay Paswan and Bhrahmadev Hajra - told her that she was a ""Ghamandi"" (arrogant) person, and they would"
"or six friends of Cretin assaulted Biafra while he was down, yelling ""Sellout rock star, kick him,"" and attempting to pull out his hair. Biafra was later hospitalized with serious injuries. The attack derailed Biafra's plans for both a Canadian spoken-word tour and an accompanying album, and the production of ""Pure Chewing Satisfaction"" was halted. However, Biafra returned to the Gilman club a few months after the incident to perform a spoken-word performance as an act of reconciliation with the club. Biafra has been a prominent figure of the Californian punk scene and was one of the third generation members"
"known as The Love Ranch. Jesse Ventura, former professional wrestler and Governor of Minnesota, wrote in his 1999 autobiography ""I Ain't Got Time to Bleed"" that he visited the BunnyRanch in the 1970s, had sex there, and received $10 in return for a belt he had made of empty rifle shell casings. On April 23, 2001, an article about Dennis Hof and the BunnyRanch appeared in ""The New Yorker"". In July 2003, Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil was charged with battery after a prostitute at the ranch alleged that he grabbed her around the throat and threw her against a"
"with AllHipHop.com, ""Freeway"" Ricky Ross claimed offense that Roberts used his name and identity when he learned that ""The Smoking Gun"" posted documents revealing Roberts' previous employment as a Florida correctional officer. On October 14, 2011, Ross suffered two seizures in the same day, once in the morning and again in the early evening. Following the morning seizure, he was unconscious and CPR was performed. After suffering the second seizure, Ross was admitted to a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, where doctors ran a battery of tests. They declared him healthy. Ross attributes the episodes to a lack of sleep in"
"ring, and attacked Edge, Hawkins, and Ryder, knocking Hawkins and Ryder outside the ring and chokeslamming Edge through the casket. At No Way Out, Big Show made a return to the company after taking time off for injuries beginning in December 2006. In his return promotional interview, Big Show threatened to give Rey Mysterio a chokeslam. Professional boxer and WBC Welterweight Champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr., who was in attendance and a close friend of Mysterio's, came to his aid and confronted Big Show. After Big Show dropped to his knees, Mayweather attacked him with a combination of punches, which caused"
"under the ""24/7 Hardcore rule."" Holly competed in the 2001 King Of The Ring Tournament but lost to Kurt Angle in the first round. In early 2002, Howard worked as a trainer for ""Tough Enough II"", a reality television show produced by WWE and MTV where participants underwent professional wrestling training and competed for a contract with WWE. In 2002, Holly turned heel on ""SmackDown!"" and began a short feud with Randy Orton. Holly suffered a broken neck during a 2002 match against Brock Lesnar, when he was powerbombed neck first on the mat. He had a thirteen-month hiatus from"
"was replaced by Luis Wei. In 2003 the band released the single ""Satan's Horns,"" which was used as the theme song for the Taiwanese release of the movie ""Freddy vs. Jason"". In 2003 they won the Best Band Award at the Taiwan Golden Melodies Award Ceremony. In 2004 Alexia Lee replaced Luis Wei on keyboards and Dani Wang replaced AJ Tsai on drums. In 2005 the band released their fourth album, ""Seediq Bale"", which is based on the Wushe Incident. In addition to symphonic black metal mixed with Taiwanese elements, ""Seediq Bale"" featured increased use of erhu, blast beats, and"
"of a 1962 performance by the band at the Star-Club in Hamburg. The following year, he was the most active of his former bandmates in promoting the reissue of their 1968 animated film ""Yellow Submarine"". On 30 December 1999, Harrison and his wife were attacked at their home, Friar Park. Michael Abram, a 34-year-old man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, broke in and attacked Harrison with a kitchen knife, puncturing a lung and causing head injuries before Olivia Harrison incapacitated the assailant by striking him repeatedly with a fireplace poker and a lamp. Following the attack, Harrison was hospitalised with more"
"as The New Midnight Express. After becoming known simply as ""Hardcore Holly"" in 1999, he was joined by on-screen cousins, Crash and Molly. In 2002, he suffered a broken neck, which sidelined him for over a year. Upon his return, he engaged in a major feud with Brock Lesnar and minor feuds with wrestlers such as Mr. Kennedy and Rob Van Dam, before forming a tag team with Cody Rhodes in 2007. Holly departed WWE in 2009, wrestling intermittently on the independent circuit. He published his autobiography, ""The Hardcore Truth: The Bob Holly Story"", in 2013 to positive reviews. Championships"
"attack, at one point police joined in, holding down the victims while their attackers beat them. In 2006, a black German citizen of Ethiopian descent named as Ermyas M., an engineer was beaten into a coma by two unknown assailants who called him ""nigger"" in an unprovoked attack that has reawakened concern about racist violence in eastern Germany. He was waiting for a tram in Potsdam, near Berlin, when two people approached him shouting ""nigger"". When he objected, they attacked him with a bottle and beat him to the ground. Also in 2006, German-Turkish politician Giyasettin Sayan, a member of"
"and seizures. Part of his skull also had to be removed after an infection. Schneider was medically retired in 2012. Edgar Veguilla was hit in the jaw and arm and suffered nerve damage. Conner and Brewer later received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in a ceremony on 16 January 2012. Federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich presented the decoration, citing their ""exemplary courage and action which helped the Federal Police arrest the suspect"". Arid Uka, the 21-year-old perpetrator, was an ethnic Albanian born in Kosovo who had lived in Germany since he was one year old;"
"of community service. Neil got out of jail in 15 days for good behavior; Mötley Crüe dedicated their third studio album, ""Theatre of Pain"", to Razzle. Neil was arrested in 2002 for punching record producer Michael Schuman to the ground in a nightclub parking lot. Neil was ordered to pay restitution and complete community service. In 2003, Neil was arrested again after accusations that he assaulted a sex worker at the Moonlight BunnyRanch by grabbing her around the throat and throwing her against a wall. On April 9, 2004, Neil pleaded no contest to battery charges and he was sentenced"
"that he had previously played at. Its support for the Nazis led to the group being banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1992 along with the German Alternative of Michael Kühnen and the National Offensive of Michael Swierczek. The ban came in response to an arson attack on 23 November 1992 on the home of a Turkish family in Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, with the family's deaths injecting urgency into judgements against neo-Nazi groups. The group was succeeded by a number of organisations including Direct Action Middle Germany and the Social Revolutionary Workers Front, all of which were banned."
"8-year-olds behind. This is purely an adult show."" Each episode cost an estimated $2 million to $2.5 million to produce, making it at the time of its release one of the most expensive half-hour television comedies ever. Long before its broadcast, the series was nearly cancelled, following the near-death of Roy Horn in October 2003; but after his condition improved, Siegfried & Roy urged NBC to continue production. Katzenberg recalled, ""There was a short period of time where we all just rocked out on our heels and couldn't be particularly creative and certainly not very funny. But Siegfried kept saying,"
"Sonali Mukherjee Sonali Mukherjee is a woman from Dhanbad, India, whose face was permanently disfigured by an acid attack in 2003 when she was 18. Her family has spent all their savings on her treatment. Mukherjee was born in Dhanbad. She was a National Cadet Corps cadet, which she had to quit after her attack. In 2003, almost one and half months prior to the incident, three alleged assailants - Tapas Mitra, and his two friends Sanjay Paswan and Bhrahmadev Hajra - told her that she was a ""Ghamandi"" (arrogant) person, and they would teach her a lesson. Her father"
"Day, and in 2003 the first song to feature Jones, ""When Darkness Falls"", appeared on the soundtrack of the 2003 horror film ""Freddy vs. Jason"". Following the 2003 Ozzfest, drummer Gomes left the band because he wished to spend more time with his wife, to pursue his band Something of a Silhouette, and because he was tired of touring. He was replaced by Justin Foley of Blood Has Been Shed, and Foley's first tour with the band was the MTV2 Headbangers Ball in 2003.<ref name=""Billboard Bits: EMI/WMG, Liza/VH1, 'Headbanger's Ball'""></ref> ""The End of Heartache"" was released on May 11, 2004,"
"a disappointing loss for the much-more experienced Horn. Two fights after a majority decision loss in a rematch with Ricardo Arona, Horn was invited to compete in the Pride Fighting Championships. Horn made his PRIDE debut against Akira Shoji on December 23, 2001 at Pride 18 in Fukuoka, Japan. Horn won the bout against the Japanese veteran via unanimous decision. Horn's next appearance for the Japan-based organization was against Dutch knockout artist, Gilbert Yvel at Pride 21 and Horn won via unanimous decision. After his last fight with PRIDE, Horn made his WEC debut at WEC 4 and won via"
"being eroded. Before dawn on 31 October 2003, David Crick, a Fathers 4 Justice campaigner, climbed a tower crane near Tower Bridge at the start of a six-day protest dressed as Spider-Man. Fearing for his safety, and that of motorists should he fall, police cordoned off the area, closing the bridge and surrounding roads and causing widespread traffic congestion across the City and east London. The Metropolitan Police were later criticised for maintaining the closure for five days when this was not strictly necessary in the eyes of some citizens. On 11 May 2009, six people were trapped and injured"
"Father of the Pride Father of the Pride is an American animated sitcom created by Jeffrey Katzenberg for DreamWorks Animation that was part of a short-lived trend of CGI series in prime-time network television (after ""Game Over""). The series centers on a family of white lions, the patriarch of which stars in a Siegfried & Roy show in Las Vegas. Despite heavy promotion, the series was unsuccessful and was cancelled after one season. Transmission and production were also delayed by the real-life on-stage injury of Roy Horn in October 2003. The family was conceived by Katzenberg when he visited Siegfried"
"Richard Gosling Richard Gosling (born 1974) is the winner of Britain's Strongest Man contest in 2003. He currently lives in Cannock, England. Gosling was seriously injured in August 2001 when he was working as a doorman at Silks nightclub, Mill Street, Cannock. He was slashed across the neck with a bottle, causing a serious wound, and needed a transfusion of four pints of blood. His attacker was recently given a life sentence for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. He now works as a window cleaner and part-time security at Asda, Cannock. Gosling has begun training local youngsters"
"Instagram. Later, Sigel was dissed again in a freestyle on Funkmaster Flex's radio show. Sigel responded by releasing his own diss track titled ""I'm Coming"". Sigel is a Muslim. In 2002, Sigel was arrested and charged with a federal weapons charge in West Philadelphia. He would later serve a year in federal prison. Sigel was arrested in January 2003 after allegedly punching a 53-year-old man in the face, fracturing his eye socket. On July 3, 2003, Sigel turned himself in to Philadelphia police and was charged with attempted murder after allegedly firing six shots from a 9mm handgun at a"
"became the owner of ""Raw"". However, on the June 10 ""Raw"", McMahon defeated Flair to end the rivalry and become the sole owner of WWE. On the February 13, 2003 ""SmackDown!"", McMahon tried to derail the return of Hulk Hogan after a five-month hiatus but was knocked out by Hogan and received a running leg drop. At No Way Out, McMahon interfered in Hogan's match with The Rock. Hogan had originally won the match as he hit The Rock with a running leg drop, but the lights went out. When the lights came back on, McMahon came to the ringside"
"and Jason Blade, after which the crowd chanted ""Please Come Back"" and ""Welcome Home"". After competing in Ring of Honor for over a month to earn a roster spot, he finally did on November 26, 2006. Shortly after earning a roster spot, he turned heel after attacking Colt Cabana on the orders of Lacey. He became known as ""The Gun for Hire"" Brent Albright, willing to take payments to inflict injury on an opponent. At the ""International Challenge"", he received a payment from Bryan Danielson to injure Homicide's shoulder shortly before their ROH World Championship match at ""Final Battle 2006""."
"On his 2003 follow up album ""Ahmar Shafayef"" (Lipstick), he returned to his more familiar style of mainly secular lyrics. In the summer of 2003, following the release of his album Mounir toured Austria, Germany and Switzerland alongside the Austrian pop musician Hubert von Goisern, and later that year the duo performed a concert in Asyut. In May 2004, he held a large concert at the pyramids, during which he was physically attacked by a drunken fan. Despite sustaining minor injuries, he continued his performance until the end of the concert. He continued his trend of releasing secular albums infused"