flyromeo3

I would of loved to see that tiger jump over that wall.

P00r tiger though. What's the zoo going to do now? sue the victim for the cost of the tiger. At the same time, its not like those kids are the only ones that taught animals at a zoo which is why regulations are put into place as in this case the wall wasnt up to par.
They dont know that he was driving drunk. Maybe the had some shots in the parking lot before entering their facilities?

Im tired this morning h:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/18/tig....ap/index.html
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- One of the three victims of a San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police say in court documents.


Toxicology results for Paul Dhaliwal showed his blood alcohol level was 0.16 -- twice the legal limit for driving,

1 of 2 Paul Dhaliwal, 19, told the father of Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was killed, that the three yelled and waved at the tiger but insisted they never threw anything into its pen to provoke the cat, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained Thursday by the San Francisco Chronicle.

"As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have been taunted/agitated by its eventual victims," according to Inspector Valerie Matthews, who prepared the affidavit. Police believe that "this factor contributed to the tiger escaping from its enclosure and attacking its victims," she said.

Sousa's father, Carlos Sousa Sr., said Dhaliwal told him the three stood on a 3-foot-tall metal railing a few feet from the edge of the tiger moat. "When they got down they heard a noise in the bushes, and the tiger was jumping out of the bushes on him (Paul Dhaliwal)," the documents said.

Police found a partial shoe print that matched Paul Dhaliwal's on top of the railing, Matthews said in the documents. Watch how a victim's desperate 911 call was handled »

The papers said Paul Dhaliwal told Sousa that no one was dangling his legs over the enclosure. Authorities believe the tiger leaped or climbed out of the enclosure, which had a wall 4 feet shorter than the recommended minimum.

The affidavit also cites multiple reports of a group of young men taunting animals at the zoo, the Chronicle reported.

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Mark Geragos, an attorney for the Dhaliwal brothers, did not immediately return a call late Thursday by The Associated Press for comment. He has repeatedly said they did not taunt the tiger.

Calls to Sousa and Michael Cardoza, an attorney for the Sousa family, also weren't returned.

Toxicology results for Dhaliwal showed that his blood alcohol level was 0.16 -- twice the legal limit for driving, according to the affidavit. His 24-year-old brother Kulbir Dhaliwal and Sousa also had alcohol in their blood but within the legal limit, Matthews wrote.

All three also had marijuana in their systems, Matthews said. Kulbir Dhaliwal told police that the three had smoked pot and each had "a couple shots of vodka" before leaving San Jose for the zoo on Christmas Day the affidavit said.

Police found a small amount of marijuana in Kulbir Dhaliwal's 2002 BMW, which the victims rode to the zoo, as well as a partially filled bottle of vodka, according to court documents.

Investigators also recovered messages and images from the cell phones, but apparently nothing incriminating in connection with the tiger attack, the Chronicle reported.


Sam Singer, a spokesman for the zoo, said he had not seen the documents but believed the victims did taunt the animal, even though they claim they hadn't.

"Those brothers painted a completely different picture to the public and the press," Singer said. "Now it's starting to come out that what they said is not true

lufkintravis

I don't know what else people expect really... there's really no point in it anyway, zoos are just holding animals captive to make a dollar...

flyromeo3

ohh god we have a PETA member on HAN.

Ok, lets just leave them in Africa so the gamers can wipe them from existance. Or better yet, lets leave them in India so Kumari can make a center rug out of them.

Yeah they are being taken out of their normal habitat but, I'd rather see that then having them killed for game.

shirley

you truly are a F@G

go smoke another penis while you whine about how people exploit animals

If it wasnt for most of the zoo's out there, there are many species of animals that would already be extinct thanks to poachers and governments that do nothign to protect the animals in their countries.

IluvJae

Who cares if they taunted it?

And z00z are wrong. If the tiger was in the wild, it would still be living after attacking that person h:

shirley

the only reason the zoos & the police want to prove that the tiger was taunted into attacking is it gives them some support if/when the lawsuit comes from the families.

they can argue that the kids taunted the tiger into attacking and if they had not done so the tiger would have had no reason to attempt to escape the enclosure and attack them.

it's not a very strong stance but its the only one the zoo really has at this point to try and save themselves from a outrageous payout

THEOLDMAN

No it would have been hunted down and killed even in the wild. Look at what they do to wild dogs here that have attacked someone if they catch them.

NOPD

they are going to start using this for "Don't smoke pot" commercials or else you'll get mauled by a tiger :chuckles:

and i see it as both sides fault. so no one should come out with anything.

1st: the idiot kids that was fucking with the tigers while being drunk and high
2nd: the zoo for not having a tall enough cage restraint

RB

Drunk at a zoo on friday early afternoon taunting a Tiger...dude deserved to be eaten :rofl:

shirley

don't forget it was christmas day as well h: