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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Not according to what I read:
The tiger apparently reached its paws through steel bars and grabbed the trainer's arms while she was answering questions from the public after the 2 p.m. feeding.
http://www.nbc11.com/news/10594010/detail.html
I guess I tend to always wonder what provokes attacks like these, instead of blaming the animal. Perhaps that makes me one who values animals over humans, though I really don’t think I do, however, I’ve seen the terribly cruel actions humans are capable of doing to each other, not to mention to helpless animals, so whenever there is a story like this I usually end up defending or siding with the animal.
Yep.
Tyler Bridges and his 4-year-old daughter were in the Lion House and had just finished chatting with the keeper when the attack occurred as they were walking away.
"She had just said, 'We feed them rabbits every Tuesday and Friday.' Fifteen seconds later, I hear her screaming," Bridges told the San Francisco Chronicle. "I see her with her back to us, facing the cage. Both of her hands were in front of her. Then somebody tried to pull her away from the tiger."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/23/national/main2294206.shtml
This makes three stories, all saying the tiger reached out through the bars and grabbed the trainer. What information do you have to support your assertions?
Tiger Mauls Zoo Trainer
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP)
The 3-year-old female tiger, Tatiana, reached through the iron bars of her enclosure and grabbed the trainer with both front paws shortly after 2 p.m. (5 p.m. ET), zoo officials said.
At least 50 visitors were at the zoo’s big cat exhibit, called the Lion House, when the tiger attacked, said Robert Jenkins, director of animal care and conservation at the zoo. They were quickly evacuated after the incident.
The trainer has been an animal keeper at the zoo since 1997. Her main job is taking care of the zoo’s four lions and three tigers, Jenkins said.
“No matter how familiar you get with these animals, they’re still wild animals,”
http://chompetus.blogspot.com/2006/12/tiger-mauls-zoo-trainer.html
There you go, putting facts into a nice discussion of feelings!
Bet you vote Republican sometimes, too...
lol, why yes, I do and have....most often, in fact.
And their attorney. Just because Geragos is such a jerk.
Think about this one ~ guy is injured by a tiger ~ bleeding all over the place ~ and someone checks his blood/alcohol level on the way to the hospital?
That's called putting your priorities in place eh.
Then, by the time he gets to the hospital for more professional treatment they've taken his cellphone, probably his wallet, found his keys ~ and there he is "naked to the world", laying on his back, and the zookeepers are making up stories about him.
Another young fellow is dead, probably equally field stripped, .....
Is this the way things are normally done in San Fran whenever there's an auto accident ~ steal their stuff first!
This city is not safe.
I agree completely! It’s a shame they had to shoot the tiger. She was improving the gene pool.
You must be careful here. Virtually all the earlier cited "police said" and "zoo officials said" reports turned out to be false.
There's a lot at stake here and people tell lies to protect their stuff.
I'm glad you know what happened because according to several of your articles it's not clear what happened.
It was all a lie.
They don’t have the phone number. It’s on their cellphones. The cops have their cellphones.
The same tiger, a 4-year-old female named Tatiana, ripped the flesh off a zookeeper’s arm just before Christmas a year ago while the woman was feeding the animal through the bars. A state investigation faulted the zoo, which installed better equipment at the Lion House, where the big cats are kept.
http://cbs5.com/national/tiger.trainer.mauled.2.278585.html
I’d still like YOU to post any story which backs up YOUR WILD ASSERTIONS.
The wall was not high enough to keep the tiger in. The Zoo is responsible for the height of the wall.
The tiger cannot escape.
If you invite people to come look at your tiger and the tiger escapes and attacks them then you are liable.
If someone jumps into the pit with the tiger then I would say the zoo would not be liable. That is not what happened here.
The tiger cannot escape.
The zoo changed the method for feeding the tigers to eliminate the risk to the handlers.
The zoo is liable
You must be a lawyer.
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