I'm pissed that the tiger was shot. Where was the fucking tranq gun eh? Probably locked away carefully in a cupboard somewhere while the rambo cops are out running around with their shiny guns. And the cop will probably get some sort of medal for doing it. Fuck.

Don't be silly they are not going to get a medal they are just going to get a new tiger skin rug as a token of appreciation.

If he gets a medal...I dunno. I would probably want to see the ceremony because they'd be like, "And here, officer so-and-so, thank you so much for saving us all.....from a TIGER!"

You may as well run. I mean come on, if nothing else, it gives you something to do with the last 10 seconds of your life.

I think they were teasing the cats with hotdogs from the cafeteria when the cat got out. That's why they ran to the cafeteria, to get more hotdogs.

The guy that got killed and the guys that got clawed must be the type of people who would kick a little cat down the street. This time they picked on the wrong kitty and kitty bit back!

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I was kinda thinking the same thing...

On this mornings news they said that one of the surviving brothers is claiming that the zoo waited 30 minutes to call 911, supposedly the brothers told a security guard what was happening and he was slow to do anything about it. The zoo said this claim is unlikely.

Not that place, but I remember from the 70s something similar called Jungle Habitat. I have no idea where it was, except that it would have been within reasonable 'familiy outing with two small children' driving distance from upper Westchester county (NYS). An ostrich pecked at my Mom's window. She was startled, and my brother and I were jealous. I feel like Great Adventure used to do this also, I could swear I remember going on rides after driving through the animal part, but perhaps Jungle Habitat had rides, or I'm mixing memories.

Zoos make me sad too. I read a book by Laurence Oliver where he talked about actors who go to the zoo to study an animal that they think is like their character - his opinion was that the idea itself wasn't a bad acting technique, but zoo-kept animals would only work if you were playing a convict.

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I just heard that they found slingshots on the 3 kids. I wish they would have all died

poor poor tiger

Let’s look at the facts:

1. Zoo officials ignored the inadequate tiger enclosure wall.
2. Zoo officials ignored the teen’s cries for help and they refused to allow the teen entry into the safety of the Zoo Shop because the zoo was closing.

The zoo officials looked at the tiger bites, scratches and blood on the teens and did not believe them. The Zoo Officials told them they are crazy.. Now let’s think about this… Who is crazy the Zoo officials or the injured teens?

How do these people get these jobs? Whose dick are they sucking on?

I guess its true... No one cares... Well let me rephrase that.... No one in charge cares that is why so many Americans dye needlessly in United States.

Attorney: Zoo guard ignored plea for help - CNN.com

The tiger was a very beatiful cat..

The CNN article and most of the other ones don't actually say that the boys were harassing the tiger, or that they helped the tiger escape. They say that the SF police and the zoo (the one that has been reported openly as committing a safety violation, and a big one at that) were investigating the possibility.

It looks like a lot of the news has moved away from discussing that. I'm not saying that the kids didn't do some fucking around, and that they aren't fuckers if they did. I mean, they've hired Mark Geragos and are going to sue the zoo.

But if you go here, you can see a police statement that says there was no shoe in the enclosure. They also have a list of notable maulings, which has reaffirmed my complete and total fear of going to a zoo...EVER! And the police deny the whole slingshot thing.



The boys lawyers said that the first call was thought to be "deranged" and that they didn't know it was serious. Which would mean it was running around for longer.

What a clusterfuck.

Maybe in court they can show videos how a small wild hungry Serval Cat can jump over 10 feet from a stand still to catch a bird to eat. Then they can tell the jury can you imagine just how high a very hungry 350 lb muscle bound cat can jump. A fully grown tiger can stretch over 10 ft tall if it stands on its rear legs.

Maybe they can show how a plain old house cat can climb extraordinary high places...

I think there was once a youtube video of a cat stuck on a very tall telephone pole or something...

Suicidal teenagers do seem rather deranged if you ask me. Don't feel bad though. It ain't like you're going to ruin a funeral.

San Francisco Zoo reopens 9 days after tiger attack

By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 4, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO -- Under glowering skies Thursday, visitors started streaming back into the San Francisco Zoo, reopened nine days after a fatal tiger attack.

Within minutes, several visitors had placed bouquets and other mementos at a makeshift shrine just inside the zoo's entrance.

A zoo spokeswoman said memorials would be welcomed both for Carlos Sousa Jr., the 17-year-old from San Jose who died, and for Tatiana, the 4-year-old Siberian tiger who was shot by police after mauling Sousa and his two friends, who survived.

"Tatiana was always friendly," said Susan Pettit, a Santa Clara homemaker who gingerly set down photographs, a stuffed animal and flowers in the tiger's memory. "I never saw her act aggressively even once."

"The big cats were like my own kids," added Pettit, who has visited the zoo once a week for three years. "I loved them all."

Police are investigating what prompted Tatiana to vault over the 12 1/2 -foot barrier around her enclosure.

Mark Geragos, an attorney for the two brothers who survived the attack, has denied speculation that the victims provoked the animal.

A report in the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday quoted a visitor who said she saw a group of young men taunting lions the afternoon of the attack.

Jennifer Miller told the newspaper that she later recognized Sousa from newspaper photographs as being part of the group, although she said she did not see him participate in the teasing.

Sgt. Steve Mannina, a San Francisco police spokesman, confirmed that the department had twice talked with Miller, but would not say whether her account had been corroborated or disclose any details of what she had told investigators.

Miller said there were four young men at the big-cat grottoes, but only Sousa and his friends, Paul Dhaliwal, 19, and Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, have been publicly identified.

Mannina also confirmed that a vodka bottle was found in the car that Sousa and his friends drove to the zoo. He said the results of toxicology tests will not be released before the investigation is completed.

Exactly how and why Tatiana escaped are still matters of speculation. Mannina said no slingshots, laser pointers, BB guns or other devices were found, despite at least one published report to the contrary.

"We don't believe those things were involved," he said.

At the zoo Thursday, workers were tearing into the top of the big-cat walls with jackhammers, preparing to install glass panels that will raise their height to 19 feet.

The big cats are being kept indoors and won't be on view to the public until work on the outdoor enclosures is complete.

Shirley Hardy of nearby Pacifica was among the morning's first visitors. She said she wanted to bring family members to the zoo the day after Christmas but was thwarted by its sudden shutdown.

Hardy, a school district payroll technician and frequent zoo patron, said she sees people trying to get the animals' attention from time to time, and even admitted occasionally mugging for the monkeys.

"Maybe we'll all learn to be more respectful," she said. "Maybe it's a lesson all around."

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The greatest tragedy of all this is that the other two kids survived.

People are just stupid, plain as. Enclose wild animals and people nearby, and the people always come off like those with the feeble brains. Just a statement of pure fact right there.

Anyways, we had a place called parc safari, where wild animals roam around freely pretty much, and you can drive your car very slowly through the parc...when we got to the Baboons...they jumped all over my dads car, pulled off his windshield wipers and smashed his passenger seat mirror.

Yesterday my cat escaped from my house and I had to look for the cat.. Finally found my cat... My cat was busy pouncing on a mouse at the time I spotted it.

When I was a child I remember going to the safari zoo in Great Adventures, NJ... I remember getting out of the car trying to pet the cute tiger...