Heeding instructions, Villalobos rolled "under a hot wire to safety, " and the tiger backed off, Breheny said.

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He said it had been previously suggested that barbed wire or barriers could be erected as a safety measure.

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That safety net would have taken some of the edge off the piano-wire-tense game against Stanford.

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The sad irony is that Winfrey had set up an unprecedented safety barrier in a country where more than a third of young women are sexually abused, with barbed wire fences, a high-tech entry system and all-female security.

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