To: Badeye
It's beginning to look a lot like the zoo's only fault is they didn't have an additional moat and a 20 foot wall- to keep people out. These three guys drove 50 miles on Christmas day to go to the zoo? The dead kid's parents say they don't know the two brothers. According to one report, the two brothers were initially uncooperative with the cops. Could this have been a gang initiation?
11 posted on
12/27/2007 6:49:39 AM PST by
Krankor
(kROGER)
To: Krankor
Hmmm, I don’t know the answer, but thanks for the details. You might be right about it being a gang related incident.
13 posted on
12/27/2007 6:52:05 AM PST by
Badeye
(The two “no” votes were cast by Ron Paul and leftwing nut Dennis Kucinich.)
To: Krankor
My thoughts from day one ,either Hispanic/Mexican gang members, or to much “Jack -Ass” style TV viewing.If they are gang members , sorry the tiger didn’t finish job.If they are “Jack-ass” , imitators, sorry the tiger didn’t finish the job.Either way, the survivors will be a legal and economic burden on the rest of us.
30 posted on
12/27/2007 7:05:39 AM PST by
redstateconfidential
(If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
To: Krankor
The dead kid's parents say they don't know the two brothers... This is very weird.
19 year old? guy chooses to travel with two people
his parents don't know the two people
they travel fifty miles to a zoo on Christmas Day
the 19? yr old ends up eaten by Tiger.
Something is up w/ the brothers with whom the dead guy traveled with IMO.
33 posted on
12/27/2007 7:07:24 AM PST by
Principled
(Vaporize the "Divide and Conquer" taxes - Have everyone pay the same marginal rate!. NRST!)
To: Krankor
Could this have been a gang initiation?
Possibly, but probably not. Gang member initiations do not typically target zoo animals. Those “animals” typically go after human prey.
It probably had more to do with some young and very stupid guys trying to prove to one another how cool they were to one another.
”Hold ma beer and lookie here what I can do”
”Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
If one of these teenagers (drunk or not) thought it was cool and funny to try to enter the tiger’s compound then, while very sad and tragic that at least one of them paid for one brief moment of stupidity with their life and the other two were severely mauled, it was their own fault. They should have known better.
The tiger however was just doing what a tiger does. If they were entering her pen, they were evading her turf and she acted appropriately. Too bad the tiger is also now dead.
Just because a wild and predatory animal is kept in a zoo, it doesn’t mean the animal stops being wild and predatory.
43 posted on
12/27/2007 7:18:15 AM PST by
Caramelgal
(Rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words or superficial interpretations)
To: Krankor
Good morning.
“Could this have been a gang initiation?”
ALF, maybe?
Michael Frazier
67 posted on
12/27/2007 7:48:54 AM PST by
brazzaville
(No surrender, no retreat. Well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: Krankor
That makes the most sense so far. That age male is not particularly inclined to go the zoo in the first place, at least I’ve never seen them there just sightseeing. It’s always couples, usually with kids in tow, of old people, with or without kids.
72 posted on
12/27/2007 7:58:04 AM PST by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Krankor
The kids were in the tiger enclosure....oh well
To: Krankor
These three guys drove 50 miles on Christmas day to go to the zoo? I agree, this sounds like some stupid gang initiation rite. If so, the survivors should be sued for $1 million by the zoo.
184 posted on
12/27/2007 1:56:47 PM PST by
Veto!
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