Posted on 01/17/2008 7:08:12 PM PST by yorkie
One of the two survivors of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that left a 17-year-old fatally mauled told the victim's father that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger's enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday.
Paul Dhaliwal, 19, denied throwing anything into the enclosure or otherwise antagonizing the animal, according to an account contained in police investigators' request for a search warrant in connection with the Christmas Day attack that killed Carlos Sousa Jr. of San Jose.
Police armed with the warrant and seeking evidence that the men had taunted the tiger searched the 2002 BMW belonging to Dhaliwal's 23-year-old brother, Kulbir, on Wednesday. They also reviewed the brothers' cell phones for any photos they might have taken before the tiger attacked.
Police said they had recovered messages and images, but apparently nothing incriminating in connection with the tiger attack. Investigators seized a small amount of marijuana as well as a partially filled bottle of Grey Goose vodka from the car, according to the inventory that police submitted from the search.
They also found a kit commonly used to defeat drug testing, which included a vial of unisex synthetic urine, police said. Paul Dhaliwal was on probation stemming from a drunken driving incident and crash that occurred before the attack.
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Either filling it or emptying it, I say this as I am sitting here emptying my can of beer. It stands there only half empty.
I was shaking my head at you and giving huge sighs at your posting first. Such drama!
The zoo was not dispensing justice.
Neither the zoo nor any other organization, nor any police or teacher or parent or any other entity on this planet can protect us from our own actions. That is the ultimate 'law'.
Teenagers don't deserve to die in auto accidents either, but they will continue to do so unabated (leading cause of death for teenagers).
We cannot make this world safe for anyone, least of all for those who have impaired judgement.
If they "didn't do nothing", what did they do?
She added, "That's what happened - just dancing, talking, laughing like normal kids."
Just smoking dope, drinking, and DUI "like normal kids."
I never said the zoo wasn't at fault . I do find lots of fault with any zoo that doesn't secure its animals from escaping & from people who might abuse or even try to get into the animal's enclosure. My main problem is people shouldn't go to the zoo & act like morons . I've said it from the 1st thread & I stand by it. A zoo should be a safe place for people to go admire animals & the animals be safe from people. If it takes a video camera to make sure people aren't taunting or trying to get into the animal's cages then put them up. It will show zoo keepers which animals try to get out too. Do what needs to be done to make it safe for the animals & the people or close it down until it is safe. Have a nice night. ~Pandora~
no, they didn’t deserve this....they were stupid, irrational, impulsive....like many young men.....
Wow I never heard of that stuff. Hmmm maybe they wanted tiger urine? I am just kidding now...
Are you a friggen’ lawyer cause you sure talk like one!
Apparently these idiots have no responsibility according to you. You must be a trial lawyer.
If I were on a jury, and learned that the victims actually entered the tiger’s enclosure, I am not sure I would consider the zoo to be very liable.
If you look at the photo in post 46, you can see that there are informational plaques on the low railing. That’s where people stand and look at the animals—just the other side of that railing. There was no chain link fence between visitors and the railing.
Sorry, but my monitor is old and the contrast is not good on darker colors, so I don’t see this railing or 2nd fence. How tall is it? Everything I read before said it was a 6-foot fence.
If they stood on top that, instead of the railing on the top of the moat wall, as I understood it, they still, in football terms “crossed the plane of the playing field” - with feet, arms, hands, noses, whatever body parts stuck out past the fence.
That’s the tiger’s “property” and they had no business being there.
So normal kids “dance” at the zoo? Perhaps, if they’re high and drunk.
Didn’t know there were so many euphemisms for taunting, Mrs. Sousa.
IMHO, it's sad what we're expected to accept as "normal".
Police: Tiger attack victim was drinking, admitted taunting
..."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. Video 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.
I hope it wasn't a tap dance ;>) No telling what type of scum that would attract.(Sorry. I couldn't resist.)
funny, but these days your dad would go to jail for that.
Yes. And to keep them restrained from "normal" people acting under "normal" circumstances at "normal" times of the day.
I am glad you don’t build the prisons.
Would you only build wall strong enough to keep “non-agitated” inmates inside?
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