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British photographer David Yarrow booked a two-day shoot at the plant but didn't mention wild animals in his application, the Detroit Free Press reported. Yarrow did not respond to a request from ABC News for comment.

\"There was a naked woman with a trench coat. It was a high-fashion shoot, which seems like the dumbest thing,\" Didorosi told ABC News. He also spotted two wolves, and the Detroit Free Press noted there was also a bobcat.

Didorosi posted on Facebook with images and video from the day, \"When your friend calls and says he needs help getting a tiger out of a staircase, you listen. (I just happened to be the closest dumb person to the scene. The real crime here is that I used vertical video, apologies to the world.)\"

\"Bright side: no matter what I do for the rest of the year, it'll always be the second dumbest thing I did in 2015,\" he posted.

\"Seeing it's a Detroit tiger it shouldn't be hard to get him out\"*laugh track*

— PCB (@ComericaEric) August 17, 2015

Didorosi said the loud noise from the weed-whacker didn't help the handlers lure the tiger from a fourth-story staircase in one of the buildings back in its crate. Didorosi said he doesn't know what eventually lured the tiger, but the photo shoot was eventually called off by the site managers.

Eeny meeny miny moe, catch a tiger with the ... weedwacker? We've got details and video of today's harrowing attempt...

Posted by Detroit Free Press on Monday, August 17, 2015

A spokesman for Animals of Montana, which provided the animals, told ABC News that \"no tiger escaped and no tiger was on the loose.\" He added that the photo shoot intended to show \"the beauty of the beast and the beauty of Detroit.\"

\"However, in the middle of that, a lot of people took to social media. It was a perfect example of social media overblown,\" he said.

Kari Smith, project manager for the Packard Plant Project, told the Detroit Free Press, \"We arranged for a photography group of humans to be on site for two days. We never approved any animals being on the site, and we had the matter taken care of in the first hour. We do not condone animals being on the site here, and the shoot was canceled. This is nothing we signed on for.\"

Smith did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

#tigerwatch15

Posted by Andy Didorosi on Monday, August 17, 2015

\"I'm a Detroit native so I don't take lightly of people using the city for their own weird crap,\" Didorosi said.

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