I was there I tell you. Right there at the San Francisco Zoo visiting my good friend Mike the Tiger.
They interviewed a retired zoo worker who had pictures of Mike, the Bengal Tiger.
One day to their surprise there was Mike walking along the top of the mote wall, but behind the short fence. This was the same mote/enclosure that Tatiana was in.
They yelled to him to get back down and he soon jumped into his enclosure again. Their solution was to put water in the mote. And the water remained until Mike (400 lbs) was no longer in the exhibit.
Then the water was drained!
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Then the water was drained!
Another lie exposed of the zoo manager, claimed that the mote had never had water in it.I’m not sure who disgusts me more: the incompetent bureaucrats running the zoo or the two clowns who refuse to tell the police what happened.
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Unless the zoo has footage of the victims taunting the tiger, they will have absolutely no defense.
They had a tiger on display with a documented history of unprovoked violence (unless they are going to argue that their own keeper who was attacked was taunting the animal).
They had an inadequate enclosure, and lied about the physical dimensions of that enclosure.
They had a water barrier in place previously, but lied about the existence of the water barrier.
Zoo employees not only failed to inform police and emergency services promptly, they deliberately discouraged and impeded the response of the police and emergency services.
All of this is a matter of unimpeachable public record.
If it turns out to be verified that the dead man indeed died while trying to save his friends from an unprovoked attack, no one involved with this will have a job and the city of SF will out maybe more than $100M.
If Gavin Newsom has a sober moment of clarity in between getting stoned and seducing the wives of his employees, he will settle as quickly as he can.