Posted on 12/25/2007 6:56:38 PM PST by Shermy
SAN FRANCISCO - A tiger escaped its cage at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring two others, a newspaper reported.
The tiger was shot, San Francisco Fire Department spokesman Lt. Ken Smith told the San Francisco Chronicle. It was not immediately clear how the tiger escaped.
The zoo, which had been scheduled to close at 5 p.m. PST, was evacuated.
It was unclear whether the victim was a visitor or a zoo worker.
Police officers and firefighters are investigating.
Officials at first worried that four tigers had escaped, but only one escaped its pen, Smith said.
Last December, one of the zoo's tigers mauled a zookeeper during a regular public feeding. The 350-pound animal reached through the cage's iron bars and badly lacerated her arm. The zoo's Lion House was temporarily closed during an investigation.
Well nothing new in the presser ... as expected.
Yea, was hoping for something but nada.
Sure makes me wonder if the guy that died let her out somehow
Isn’t that typical of the Lib pols.
The San Diego Zoo, the largest in the world is famous for the natural settings for the animals.
In the northersn part of our county the Zoological society
has the huge Wild Animal Park which is like being on a
safari.
The San Diego Zoo the other month had its fourth Panda born here.
One of the morning talking heads (ABC, I think) mused about ‘what would cause a 350 pound tiger raised in captivity to suddenly snap and attack 3 people?’ She made it sound like a school shooting. My question is ‘what goes on in these people’s alleged minds?’
>> what would cause a 350 pound tiger raised in captivity to suddenly snap and attack 3 people? My question is ‘what goes on in these people’s alleged minds?’ <<
I don’t know, but I can tell you where it comes from: First of all, look at the pix in post #178. Now, wander back and look at the animal names in this thread: Ken Allen and Tatiania. Of the 5 horses in my pasture, 3 have human names: Rex, Bobby, Matthew. Think of the movie “Born Free” - the cat was named “Elsa”. All human names.
Now let’s look back in history: The traditional English carol “Wassail, Wassail” (written in the 16th century) contains the following animal names: Cherry, Dobbin, Broad May, Fillpail, and Colly. None of them human. HINT.
Courtesy Marlin Perkins’ Wild Kingdom, Walt Disney, Jacques Cousteau and the like, the “me” generation has grown up thinking these beasts are almost human. They’re not; they’re ANIMALS (hence the name). Almost none of these series ever showed them going about their usual business of killing and ripping the guts out of their prey, then casually sitting down to lunch and a snooze afterwards. The city-born and their offspring have no rational understanding of either animal behavior or our traditional relationships with them. Their experience with killing is confined to humans, and mostly from video games or TV.
I was raised on a farm, and can tell you where chicken comes from, and it involves an axe, a clothesline, and blood. Lots of it. I can also tell you, unequivocally, that there is no sound more blood-curtling than that of a pig having its throat cut and being strung up to bleed. Think I have no love and compassion for God’s creatures? I have seen my father stifle back the tears after trying to free a struggling milk cow from a fence, finding it had broken its leg, then having to put it down. I have seen inconsolable sadness in a neighbor’s eyes when her pretty little filly slipped on the asphalt, broke her neck, and fell stone dead.
Perhaps we should take a hint from our African-American sisters who so creatively name their children (Kah’oreah, Keeyana, Ronnikkiea, Niyellie and Za’niya come to mind). The Government could pass a law mandating that animals be named for what they do. In a sensible world, Gutrippa, Necksnappa, Donfu*kwithme, or Yoasshashaditifigetout might have been more suitable for this cat.
This animal had to have been provoked into reacting the way it did!
ah ha!
Man we were down here for like 45 minutes?
Perhaps all four of them knew each other. Was there a falling out?
FYI my dogs are named Dozer (she likes to move dirt) and Spaz (self explanitory).
The dogs’ cat is named ‘chew toy’.
You should hear some ‘cat peoples’ reaction.
The latest news is that there was NO open gate and the wall around the tiger was 18” tall. A white tailed deer can clear a 10” fence from a standing position.
I have to go back and check my copy of “The Man-Eaters of Kumoun”> I am SURE I read about ONE of these tigers clearing a wall higher than 10’ CARRYING a human body.
Will follow up on this.
I hardly think a terrorist would consider it worthwhile to break into a zoo and release an animal that might--at most--hurt a handful of people before being brought down. It's just not "spectacular" enough.
In any case, I reporter was most likely hinting that a keeper might have done it, and that is what I was reacting to.
It is clear to me that many news writers are incompetent - the following sentence from WRAL on this topic demonstrates my point:
After last year's attack, the zoo added customized steel mesh over the bars, built in a feeding shoot and increased the distance between the public and the cats.
Make you wonder whether they read what they write?
A grown male lion can lunge thirty feet with just a few steps as a start. I have seen it with my own eyes...
As we can now see they can leap a 15 foot moat with 20 foot walls anyway.
These big cats are pretty smart and they toy with us. As long as we stay in our place (as their surrogate mothers) they don't mind, but someone seems to have angered this one. We turned into "fair game" instantly.
The score so far:
FELINES: 1, HUMANOIDS: 0
I thought only the WHITE TIGERS are deadly..
They’re now reporting (on FOX) a “blood trail” to the cafe.
A tiger is a tiger is a tiger...
Incidently, there is no white tiger species; they are simply genetic variations of any type of tiger. People like them, so they breed them together to make more.
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