Emergency workers were able to catch a black tiger lounging while waiting for prey on the roofs of houses and facilities in the French city of Lille.
Workers searched for the strange animal after residents of a neighborhood near Lille reported a "big cat" wandering over residential sewers.
Photos were taken after the fire brigade arrived at the tiger trying to set up a place to live in a house, perched on the edge of a building and quickly passing in front of a closed window.
After firefighters finished securing the perimeter of the thief's infiltration into a house where they were besieged, the tiger was anesthetized with an anesthetic arrow and placed in a cage.