Beware the barn cat!
Posted on 01/16/2008 12:35:55 PM PST by repinwi
San Francisco police today began their review of the cell phones and car belonging to the survivors of a Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo, officials said.
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A San Francisco Superior Court judge granted a search warrant allowing police to examine the cell phones and car on Tuesday.
For police and city officials to get the warrant, they needed to show probable cause of felony wrongdoing, a city official said.
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I’m not sure. Here, we have volunteers and staff all over the place. I don’t know about cameras.
Absolutely!
Question 6 :Do you really think the tiger just suddenly decided, with no provocation whatsoever, to break out of it's enclosure and kill someone?
Beware the barn cat!
I guess the brothers haven’t been that specific yet—the last I heard their lawyer claimed they were “only dancing and singing and laughing” in front of the tiger grotto.
Right.
Because then my entertainment would be lessened somewhat, and we can't have that.
As someone who suffers from cat attacks on a daily basis, I still have no sympathy for the young ruffians.
Note the tucked-back ears, denoting anger and hostility, and the profuse eye-boogers. Still haven't solved that problem.
What scoffing, all you have here is a bunch of knuckle dragging animal rights wacko's with a bunch of, if, and, are maybes, mean while the taps that have been released make the zoo and 911 operators look and sound like a goon squad.
Of course! They were doing dinner theater for Tatiana!
Check out repinwi's FR homepage. If those "cute little kitties" weighed 200 pounds, and were hungry, she'd be Purina'd.
The naivete of some people is incredible.
Let’s see..a SF judge JUST allowed a search...this happened WEEKS ago...plenty of time to destroy evidence.
Yes I do,in fact!
My mamma cat (Russian Blue) was born domestic and a better hunter when let outside you could not find (as the rat, squirrel, and bird population in my area could tell you).
She was the most gentle cat you could ever see (unless you were a bird, rat, or squirrel).
Cats come by this stuff naturally (at least most of them). My big 22 pound Maine Coon, on the other hand doesn’t get the hunter spirit.
Still got marks from the cute kitty I tried to tame 10 years ago.
I see kitty likes to “play”
I really believe if those “little tigers” started growing, we would be in big trouble:’)
These fellows, as alleged in some cases and speculated in others, climbed the 6’ perimeter fence. This, as I understand it, is a chain link fence that surrounds a grassy area which in turn leads to the dirt wall which should have been 20’ per zoo standards but was only 12’. Below this wall is the tiger pit. The tiger roams around this area and is unprotected from drunken youths shooting at it with slingshots.
They did find one of their shoes on this grass berm where they HADN’T SHOULDN’TA OUGHTA been. In fact, the dead guy died within the fence perimeters but I could be mistaken.
It is believed they were drunk and thought it would be a hoot to fling rocks or something via slingshot at the tiger in the pit below and unable to avoid their aerial assault.
Here’s the thing....they can’t prove anything unless they get access to their cars and cell phones. It has been reported that there was all manner of beer bottles in their car but I doubt they’ll find anything now unless officials have held on to their car. Otherwise one would think they’d clean it out. The cell phone info might be helpful.
Lookit, this trio was a bunch of hoodlums who tormented this beast and yeah, they broke the law, assuming climbing that fence is against the law. One of them died, score one for the tiger.
With the help of the fine Mark Geragos, attorney to Michael Jackson, they’ve shut up to the point where they won’t even tell their dead friend’s family what happened.
Why? First, they’re going to sue the bejeesus out of that zoo. Of course Mark Geragos can be on the case just from the purity of his heart depending on how naive you are.
As for the zoo, we’ve got a zoo director pulling in $300K a year, like everything else in San Francisco, people get paid big bucks for not doing their job. It was Christmas day, coverage was lax.
Do these boys really DESERVE to win millions of bucks?
THIS is why there’s all this movement to obtain this information.
Common sense would dictate that the zoo was badly run and that zoo director should be fired. Common sense would dictate that a bunch of drunken youths climb in a tiger compound and shoot rocks at a vulnerable tiger...they take a chance.
Common sense would dictate that these fine fellows do not deserve to get rich off of their stupidity.
Ditto. I can't figure any other reason, it's all about the money. Well, maybe a bit of an attempt at face saving but mostly about the money.
Or maybe they're wanting to charge them with felony tiger taunting.
The cameras and car have been in police custody since the incident. They just couldn’t look at the contents until the warrant was issued. The brothers did plan to come in and pick them up but the police got a temporary order to allow them to keep them until the S.F. warrant hearing.
My guess is that the tormentors climbed the fence and were leaning over the moat wall to get a better shot at the tiger.
The tiger makes a quick leap and grabs one of the attackers. In effect using him as a rope.
Remember early on the cops said there was concrete under the cats rear claws.
“And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?”
Too bad a good tiger had to die because of these three idiots.
Sorry - no compassion for morons.
The taunting would have been a misdemeanor, but that led to a death, because it motivated and caused the tiger to do something she never did before, which was to exit the pit. The charge would be reckless homicide and carries a 2-6 year penalty in CA.
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