How would you feel if you learned the kids planned the whole thing a couple of days in advance? I mean, what if the idea of going to this zoo after it closed and dangling your feet above the tiger was a stunt or dare that quite a few kids in the San Francisco/San Jose area were aware of, and these three guys discussed it on the phone two or three days earlier and decided to go on Christmas day and do it? Would you still award them millions?
Even if the zoo turns out to be completely at no fault IMO it won’t make a difference. You may get sympathetic jurors who agree the young men, excuse me boys now, should not have climbed the fence but boys will be boys and the city has a lot of money and, poor things look at them. They won’t do that again and besides the zoo should have known that kids get curious and if they had only built a top or........