--- title: Omaha Woman Breaks Into Zoo, Gets Bitten by Tiger description: "If you pet a tiger you will most likely get bitten," said the Omaha Police Department in a Facebook statement canonical: https://time.com/4096361/omaha-zoo-tiger/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-02T14:33:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:31.231Z og:title: Omaha Woman Breaks Into Zoo, Gets Bitten by Tiger og:description: Not a grrrrrrrrreat weekend for this 33-year-old og:url: https://time.com/4096361/omaha-zoo-tiger/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Omaha Woman Breaks Into Zoo, Gets Bitten by Tiger twitter:description: Not a grrrrrrrrreat weekend for this 33-year-old twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Omaha Woman Breaks Into Zoo, Promptly Bitten by Tiger by [Alexander Smith and Shamar Walters / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexander Smith and Shamar Walters / NBC News Nov 2, 2015 2:33 PM UTC by [Alexander Smith and Shamar Walters / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexander Smith and Shamar Walters / NBC News Nov 2, 2015 2:33 PM UTC An intoxicated woman was bitten by a tiger after she broke into a zoo and tried to pet the animal, police said. Jacqueline Eide, 33, reached into the predator’s cage after she allegedly entered Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, early Sunday — just hours after Halloween. There was no merciful repeat of Daniel in the lions’ den, however, and Eide suffered a “severe trauma” to her left hand, the Omaha Police Department said in a statement. She was driven to hospital by a friend, where police said Eide was aggressive and showed signs of intoxication by alcohol or drugs. She… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/omaha-woman-bitten-tiger-after-breaking-zoo-cops-n455526?cid=par-time%5F20151102) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4096361/omaha-zoo-tiger/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4096361/omaha-zoo-tiger/"},"headline":"Omaha Woman Breaks Into Zoo, Promptly Bitten by Tiger","datePublished":"2015-11-02T14:33:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:31.231Z","description":"Not a grrrrrrrrreat weekend for this 33-year-old","url":"https://time.com/4096361/omaha-zoo-tiger/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","nebraska"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexander Smith and Shamar Walters / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4096361/omaha-zoo-tiger/","name":"Omaha Woman Breaks Into Zoo, Promptly Bitten by Tiger"}}]}] ```