Tiger escapes zoo, kills man

[SlowwHand]

Listen dogface....

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by CerberusIV
Apparently the wall should have been about 4' higher.

Is that a flock of vultures I see circling over the zoo? No surely not, just lawyers.

As I understand things. the old 12.5 walls are still within Code, but new zoos build their walls to 16.5.

And I don't believe there was water in the moat, that it's a dry moat.


BTW: I've now hear that a pool of blood has been found in the tiger's cage. Does anyone know if it was human blood or tiger blood ?

[SlowwHand]

I told you once that a shoe and blood were found.
You old people and your hearing, I mean sight. Whatever.

[Zkribbler]

Memory

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Dis


most people go to greath lengths not to own a house cat.

Most people go to great lengths not to have their testicles shriveled up from radiation exposure, but that didn't stop you from being a nuclear technician.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Memory

That, too.

[Zkribbler]

The dead guy is a hero.

Victim in S.F. zoo attack helping friend when tiger turned on him

By JORDAN ROBERTSON and MARCUS WOHLSEN, Associated Press


SAN FRANCISCO - The last minutes of a 17-year-old boy's life were spent trying to save his friend from the tiger that was mauling him at the San Francisco Zoo, only to have the animal turn on him, police and family members said.

Carlos Sousa Jr. and his friend's brother desperately tried to distract the 350-pound Siberian tiger, but the big cat instead came after Sousa.

"He didn't run. He tried to help his friend, and it was him who ended up getting it the worst," the teen's father, Carlos Sousa Sr., said Thursday after meeting with police.

The heroic portrait of Sousa and a timeline of the dramatic Christmas Day attack emerged as officials revealed that the tiger's escape from its enclosure may have been aided by walls that were well below the height recommended by the accrediting agency for the nation's zoos.

San Francisco Zoo Director Manuel A. Mollinedo acknowledged that the wall around the animal's pen was just 12 feet high, after previously saying it was 18 feet. According to the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, the walls around a tiger exhibit should be at least 16.4 feet high.

Mollinedo said it was becoming increasingly clear the tiger leaped or climbed out, perhaps by grabbing onto a ledge. Investigators have ruled out the theory the tiger escaped through a door behind the exhibit at the zoo, which remained closed Friday.

"She had to have jumped," he said. "How she was able to jump that high is amazing to me."

Mollinedo said safety inspectors had examined the wall, built in 1940, and never raised any red flags about its size.

"When the AZA came out and inspected our zoo three years ago, they never noted that as a deficiency," he said. "Obviously now that something's happened, we're going to be revisiting the actual height."

The 4-year-old tiger, a female named Tatiana, went on a rampage near closing time Tuesday, killing Sousa and severely injuring the two others before police shot it to death.

Brothers Paul Dhaliwal, 19, and Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, were at San Francisco General Hospital with severe bite and claw wounds. Their names were provided by hospital and law enforcement sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because the family had not yet given permission to release their names.

After interviewing the brothers, police said Kulbir Dhaliwal was the animal's first victim.

As the tiger clawed and bit him, Sousa and the younger brother yelled in hopes of scaring it off him, police said. The cat then went for Sousa, slashing his neck as the brothers ran to a zoo cafe for help.

After killing the teenager, the tiger followed a trail of blood left by Kulbir Dhaliwal about 300 yards to the cafe, where it mauled both men, police said.

Four officers who had already discovered Sousa's body then arrived and found the cat sitting next to one of the bloodied brothers, police Chief Heather Fong said. The victim yelled, "Help me! Help me!" and the animal resumed its attack, Fong said.

The officers used their patrol car lights to distract the tiger, and it turned and began approaching them, leading all four to open fire, she said.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
The dead guy is a hero.

Wow.

One day you're one of a group of morons taunting a wild animal, next day you're a hero. Isn't it wonderful what a little well-coreographed press spin will do to your reputation.

I'm not buying it.

And as for who's the "victim" (great word, that) in all of this, I'll still have to go with the tiger before anyone else.

[chequita guevara]

You're assuming the tiger was taunted. These are wild, dangerous creatures. They kill people every year. They are not to be underestimated.

[Winston]

I'm also assuming that you didn't bother to read the thread and stories linked to therein before posting.

And of course, the application of a bit of common sense is, as usual, right out.

[Zkribbler]

Bad assumption because the stories don't say the tiger was taunted. They indicate she might have been taunted.

[SlowwHand]

That's why his shoe was down in the pit? I guess the tiger threw it down there for a souvenier!

[chequita guevara]

Unfortunately for you, Winnie, I did read the articles. They did not say the tiger was taunted. They speculated that the tiger might have been taunted. Furthermore, even if the tiger was taunted, no one ever said that these were the individuals who were taunting it.

So how about you just STFU.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
That's why his shoe was down in the pit? I guess the tiger threw it down there for a souvenier!

From the story Lonestar linked:

But at an afternoon news conference, Police Chief Heather Fong said police had no information that anyone had put a leg over the railing, and she said no shoe was found in the animal's enclosure.

I thought you Texans stick together.

[SlowwHand]

It's not a Texas zoo.