I may be unique in my thought here, but it shouldn’t matter if they were taunting the animal or not.
If that animal got out of its enclosure on its own then there is a problem with the enclosure and the zoo should be held responsible.
When you walk into a zoo, you should have the reasonable expectation of being able to walk away unmauled, even if there is someone teasing an animal.
Geragos lied? Who knew?
If I were on the jury for this civil suit, not a penny for the tiger taunters/agitators. I feel sad that a beautiful animal had to be killed. I have no sympathy for the punk that was killed, or for his two punk friends that were mauled.
Where is the zoo security to make sure that the animals aren’t being taunted and people aren’t getting too close to the animals?
A red herring. The wall was not high enough. Period.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you. BTW, the zoo's job is to protect the animals from the visitors just as much as it is to protect the visitors from the animals.
The boys obviously caused something that should never have been allowed to happen. Zoo animals simply are not allowed to attack the patrons, no matter how stupidly they behave. It's bad for business. So, I think these wisenheimers are going to collect the Big Lotto on this one. And the ever-truthful Geragos could use a win right about now.
And why am I the only guy on Freep who thinks it a bit ironic that these young Indian fellows had to come to San Francisco to be attacked by a tiger? Would it not have been cheaper all the way around if their parents had remained in India and encouraged the kids to taunt a local tiger?
The tiger died for nothing, and yet these fine examples of human waste continue to live.
If his mouth was open...that was likely.
You are assuming that he knew the truth when he spoke. My guess is that his clients lied to him and he simply repeated the lie believing it to be true (or at least not knowing it to be false). Now if he continues to disseminate what he now knows to be false, then you can call him a liar.
You are assuming that he knew the truth when he spoke. My guess is that his clients lied to him and he simply repeated the lie believing it to be true (or at least not knowing it to be false). Now if he continues to disseminate what he now knows to be false, then you can call him a liar.
Geragos, their attorney, lied?
GEDOUDDAHERE!!!!
These 3 little bastards ought to be heavily fined, get some jail time, and after that have to clean animal cages for a couple of years on weekends.
They admitted yelling and waiving their hands. That’s what kids do everyday at the zoo.
If they can arrest them for drunk and disorderly, then do it. But the zoo is still responsible for keeping their animals in.
Was he the one who told us that there were slingshots? Did he try to tell us the wall was much higher than it was?
Never been to the San Fran one but the zoos I been to before have signs posted throughout the place stating not to mess with the animals.
Hopefully there will not be the usual court ordered lotto jackpot to the winners that forgo common sense.
“...didn’t throw anything”? What were the sling-shots for?
Yeah, Geragos knowingly and deliberately lied. He is such scum.