Posted on 01/05/2008 4:26:41 AM PST by repinwi
Soon after their 17-year-old friend was mauled to death by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo, the two brothers who survived the attack made a quick pact not to cooperate with the police as they rode in an ambulance to the hospital, sources told The Chronicle.
"Don't tell them what we did," paramedics heard 23-year-old Kulbir Dhaliwal tell his brother, Paul, 19.
Sources also say that the younger brother was intoxicated at the time of the incident, having used marijuana and consumed enough liquor to have a blood-alcohol level above the .08 limit for adult drivers. The older brother also had been drinking and using marijuana around the time a 350-pound Siberian tiger escaped and killed Carlos Sousa Jr., the sources said.
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Too bad the tiger got shot. Sounds like it was doing society a service.
I hope his gravestone reads: Killed in the Line of Duty.
Time to put some waterboarding to good use on the two brothers. Then we would see how long the “pact” survived.
Better epitaph would be: Sacrificed life enforcing the law of natural selection BTW, Tiger was a female.
Amen.
I've always prefered cats to morons.
Agreed.
Back in 1986 a sailor in Sasebo (drunk of course) broke into a zoo and climbed into a compound with a tiger. He wasn’t killed, but he got chewed up pretty badly.
The headline in the Asahi newspaper said “Tiger Teaches Sailor Reason for Fences”.
Although I love cats and have four of the domestic kind, I am not what you would really call an animal rights activist who values animals more than people (although my husband is always accusing me of being one just because I love my cats). At the same time, I think it is a tragedy that this beautiful creature died as a result of the actions of these young men. Although the tiger had injured a zoo keeper once before, that wall had been the same height for as long as it had been at the zoo and it never offered to jump over it. The tiger was acting instinctively to an unprovoked attack, and, while it is also tragic that a young man is dead, the boys bear the primary responsibility for what happened to them and to the tiger.
Always sided with the tiger since day one. Too bad tigress didn’t take all 3 down.
Although I love cats and have four of the domestic kind, I am not what you would really call an animal rights activist who values animals more than people (although my husband is always accusing me of being one just because I love my cats). At the same time, I think it is a tragedy that this beautiful creature died as a result of the actions of these young men. Although the tiger had injured a zoo keeper once before, that wall had been the same height for as long as it had been at the zoo and it never offered to jump over it. The tiger was acting instinctively to an unprovoked attack, and, while it is also tragic that a young man is dead, the boys bear the primary responsibility for what happened to them and to the tiger.
It’s not that they were stupid to take on a 500 pound killing machine, it’s that they were so heartless, mindless, cruel and stupid to think it’s great fun tormenting a caged wild animal.
I know the authorities did what they had to do when they killed the tiger, and I know the zoo was probably at fault for having a confinement setup that was less than adequate.
The preferred outcome, in my mind, would have been for them to have been caught in the act and caged themselves for their crimes.
the boys bear the primary responsibility for what happened to them and to the tigerResponsible for their friend's death. Death that occurred during the commission of a crime. The crime was probably not a felony, but there must be some legal recourse against these two to make them pay something for the death of a human being stemming from their actions.
Maybe they’ll end up in a cage where they will be tortured and tormented.
Sources also say...
Cautionary note--'sources' may be in Sam Singer's choir.
I can see this playing out, that the zoo is found negligent, and a dollar is awarded to the yute.
Except it’s SF. But - it would seem a change in venue would be likely, considering the amount of coverage. If the case ends up being held somewhere in the central coast, could be a lot of people might think there’s no “there” there.
""Don't tell them what we did," paramedics heard"
Did she ever get to the bottom of which scions of politically connected families beat up the warblers from Yale a couple of years ago?
I don’t feel very sorry for those kids anymore. I do feel sorry for the tiger, though. Their stupid actions led to its death (and the death of the other kid) and I hope that haunts them. Sadly, they’re probably too high and/or drunk right now to full remember.
That is so true...no matter what wrongs those stupid, drunk kids did, the confinement for the tiger/s should have been adequate enough to keep any one of them from escaping. That is where the fault of the zoo will come into play, rather than the fault of the kids. The families of these kids will sue, and they will get away with what caused the killing of their friend, and of the tiger. I hope their conscience will drive them nuts the rest of their lives because they are ultimately responsible for the deaths.
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