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Police: San Francisco Tiger Attack May Have Been Provoked
Foxnews.com ^ | 12/26/2007 | Staff

Posted on 12/26/2007 5:27:17 PM PST by Red in Blue PA

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Zoo was closed to visitors Wednesday as police investigated a tiger attack they say may have been provoked by visitors' taunting the animal, leaving one man dead and two brothers injured.

Police searched the zoo to ensure there were no others injured and no more animals out of their cages after the Christmas day attack in which the 300-pound tiger, Tatiana, escaped its cage.

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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: sf; tiger; zoo
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Once again, animals suffer because of the stupidity of men. I have no remorse for people who do such things.

None at all.

1 posted on 12/26/2007 5:27:19 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Unfortunately, the dead person probably wasn’t the one who taunted the cat.


2 posted on 12/26/2007 5:29:24 PM PST by umgud (no more subprime politicians)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I could not agree with you more!


3 posted on 12/26/2007 5:29:40 PM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Big dog, big dog, bow-wow-wow! We'll crush crime, now, now, now!)
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...Once again, animals suffer because of the stupidity of men. I have no remorse for people who do such things...

No reason to kill someone just because they taunt you.

4 posted on 12/26/2007 5:30:20 PM PST by FReepaholic (This tagline could indicate global warming.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Yep some people are butt heads (see Michael Vick). But the real question is how much of a butt head were these people. Was the tiger in or out of the cage when they were taunting the tiger?


5 posted on 12/26/2007 5:30:53 PM PST by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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These idiots put the animals lives in jeopardy by taunting them, not to mention other people are put at risk too!

IMO, these so-called people are on the bottom of the evolutionary scale, well below animals.


6 posted on 12/26/2007 5:31:49 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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...IMO, these so-called people are on the bottom of the evolutionary scale, well below animals...

So they deserve to die.

7 posted on 12/26/2007 5:33:06 PM PST by FReepaholic (This tagline could indicate global warming.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I have seen those little bass turds taunting the animals and would like to punch them in the nose.


8 posted on 12/26/2007 5:33:19 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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No reason to kill someone just because they taunt you.

Good luck explaining that to the tiger.
9 posted on 12/26/2007 5:33:42 PM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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No reason to kill someone just because they taunt you.

ROFL!

10 posted on 12/26/2007 5:33:50 PM PST by Zechariah11
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They then "yelled at the animal to stop.

lolol

11 posted on 12/26/2007 5:34:09 PM PST by My hearts in London - Everett (Heaven: preregistration is required!)
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In a sense, yes. If one plays in the middle of a highway, they will get killed too.

It’s called Darwinism.


12 posted on 12/26/2007 5:34:22 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I agree. Saddened by both deaths.


13 posted on 12/26/2007 5:34:29 PM PST by RDTF (Remember Pearl Harbor)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

Notice they didn’t even think about tazing.


14 posted on 12/26/2007 5:35:46 PM PST by CindyDawg (.)
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Oh c’mon...

Who hasn’t delighted as a child throwing lit cigarettes to zoo animals as a child (or, guilty pleasure, as an adult).

Given, I usually do it to the gophers, but that’s why they make chocolate and vanilla I guess (or cage tigers and gophers).

(yes it was a friggin’ joke. lighten up, okay?)


15 posted on 12/26/2007 5:35:58 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Red_Devil 232

new thread


16 posted on 12/26/2007 5:36:14 PM PST by RDTF (Remember Pearl Harbor)
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Did someone taunt this same tiger last year when it attacked one of the zoo staff? Or was it an aggressive animal to begin with?

Wasn’t the dead victim in the cafe? i.e. NOT the person who taunted the tiger?

17 posted on 12/26/2007 5:36:36 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: Zechariah11

One thing is certain, when those who taunt are killed—they taunt no more. There is a recitivism rate of ZERO...


18 posted on 12/26/2007 5:36:45 PM PST by RadioCirca1970 (ISLAM and its Adherents ARE the enemy: Teach your kids Before their learn the hard way!)
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To: umgud

Unfortunately, the dead person probably wasn’t the one who taunted the cat.
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No matter what, that cat should not have been able to get out of its cage. Obviously an tragedy waiting to happen. And it did.


19 posted on 12/26/2007 5:37:37 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Red in Blue PA

This cat had a history and came from a zoo where a jag killed a keeper?


20 posted on 12/26/2007 5:38:07 PM PST by CindyDawg (.)
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