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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Don’t tell them what we did”?? Now why would someone say that if, as some here keep insisting, they’d done nothing wrong?
No, they’re not at all responsible for the tiger getting out in any way whatsoever.
What are you crazy? It should in no way EVER be possible for a tiger to escape it’s confines.
What anyone did or didn’t do is completely irrelevant.
I hate it that the tiger was killed after demonstrating Darwinism at its best.
Notice also that the young man who was killed went back to aid one of these bottom feeders who was being attacked. When the tiger turned her attention to the ultimate victum, the two brothers took off and offered him no help.
What we have here are two worthless pieces of human trash that should be prosecuted for murder. And get a damned search warrant to get in their phones and other items. Its not rocket science.
They souhgt help at the Reptile House, where they were found Mark Garegos.
I have no respect for any paramedics talking to the press....it IS unprofessional.
not sure if you saw this one yet
I am all for allowing the father of the dead 17 year old to use any means necessary to extract the truth from the two punks who made this pact.
That said, SF is such a liberal town that I wouldn’t be surprised if the zoo permitted the lower end of the recommended height just to make the tiger enclosure seem less enclosed. Over the last decade it seems that virtually cageless zoos have been a goal of the animal rights folks.
On a side note, I never knew that zoo heads made the money that this one makes...what, 300k/year?