Posted on 01/04/2008 4:58:32 PM PST by repinwi
The two brothers injured in the Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo have refused to let police examine photos on their cell phones that authorities believe were taken the day they were mauled and their friend was killed.
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"We also understand that police officers requested permission from your clients to examine any images and other contents of the cell phone. Your clients refused to cooperate with this request; consequently, no one has yet examined this potentially critical evidence."
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It’s good she got out of there.
So far the cops haven't come up with a crime ~ just speculation by the friends of the zoo.
They have no probable cause. At some point they will need to return the cellphones to the owners since, as it turns out, they are not evidence in any case, civil or criminal.
I'd make sure the cops got to pay my cellphone bill for December and January!
How about New Orleans.
Rocks also fly.
They're having near hurricane force winds on the West Coast this week.
Rocks and limbs fly thorugh the air ~ look, don't be like that crazy old bat who said fire didn't burn steel ~ what's her name?
Were there no cameras anywhere? Not even the front gate? Maybe if there was another he did walk out but...I hope they checked that dumpster.
Did the rocks travel though a worm hole to last week?
Remember, it's a single issue. The guys own cellphones that the cops seem to have acquired ~ mysteriously. They have not agreed to let the cops look at any pictures on the cellphones.
That's not "uncooperative" absent probable cause.
And......
the Zoo is negligent also in not protecting the animals!
What kind of zoo Director at 300K a year can’t figure out a way to protect the animals? For God’s sake, most of the zoo is funded by tax dollars....not only is this a waste of tax dollars but what does it teach children that we can’t protect animals or people at the zoo.
the zoo didn’t have this problem for years....yes, but we didn’t have such sick people going to the zoo for years before either.
Just wait....this will soon be Bush’s fault!
She will sue.
I bet a used ticket stub for a visit to the zoo that day could draw a heafty sum on ebay.
In the weeks before this incident, there was a man killed in a zoo in India because he crossed over the barrier fence, to try and get a better picture of a tiger. He was being warned not to cross the fence by officials, but did so, anyway. He stuck his hand and camera inside the fence. Both tigers then attacked him. A day or two later, a young girl crossed the barrier at another zoo in Malaysia, and gets clawed by a leopard. The parents were there and did not stop the girl. Unlike this country, the zoo can press charges against the parents for failure to properly control their child. Then, just 5 days after the fatal incident in India, another man jumps into a tiger enclosure at another zoo in India. This man escaped with fairly minor injuries, but he was dragged around a bit by a tiger. Turns out this is the second time in a year that this man has done this.
India can and does press charges against idiots. They don't blame the tiger first like you think.
I haven’t. I just keep on wondering why a 17, a 19 and a 23 year old male would visit a zoo on Christmas Day. “Oh hey dudes, I have a great idea. Why don’t we get in the car and drive an hour and go to visit the zoo?”
Could this have been a gang initiation?
The rocks didn’t need to come in on Christmas Day, just some time before then. THere were over 60 years for rocks and limbs to arrive.
They need a bigger wall and more keepers. The reason all this info is coming from other patrons is that there appears to have been no employee around at the time this happened - even thought it was closing time, dark, etc.
We know someone who worked as a keeper at an alligator farm. One day he walked by the crocodile cage and saw a man dangling his four-yr-old over the fence into the cage, holding the child by his feet. It turns out that Daddy had dropped his sunglasses into the cage and and was lowering his son over the fence to pick them up. Fortunately, the crocs had been fed shortly before that, and the keeper dragged the kid out before anything could happen.
But the point is that it is incredible what stupid things people will do. And zoos, unfortunately, have to go on the assumption that they need to have the facilities, the equipment and the personnel to protect against human stupidity - and the SF zoo obviously didn’t have it.
Here's a guy evangelizing to cat family in the zoo.
Yeah, and buggy whips work great too, if you have a horse-drawn carriage.
The first reports of the tiger story said the wounded “victims” were hostile to the police. H.o.s.t.i.l.e.
"Your clients refused to cooperate with this request;"
Day off?
There was a post somewhere about the cat was in or on a dumpster, I think.
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