Posted on 12/29/2007 5:49:01 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
ZOO THOUGHT TIGER ATTACK WAS FAKE
By EMMETT BERG in San Francisco and JAMES FANELLIin New York San Francisco
An employee barricaded in the zoo's Terrace Café made the first 911 call at 5:07 p.m., saying that zoo patron Amritpal "Paul" Dhaliwal, 19, was frantically screaming outside. The employee told the dispatcher that Dhaliwal claimed a lone man "was bitten by an exotic animal." The dispatcher relaying the call added, "They do not see any animal missing."
Police were immediately dispatched, but subsequent police logs and fire logs showed skepticism over the attack.
"Zoo personnel dispatch now say there are two males who the zoo thinks . . . are 800 [mentally unstable] and making something up . . . but one is in fact bleeding from the back of the head," a dispatch reads.
As more information trickled out in the subsequent minutes, police and fire crews learned a tiger was loose and the zoo grounds were not safe. By the time responders reached the zoo at 5:12 p.m., zookeepers had already begun a lockdown - preventing responders from getting onto the grounds. The logs detail the fire crew saying the zoo security had called a "Code One, meaning they can't let anyone into the zoo."
They finally got in between 5:15 and 5:18 p.m. The logs indicate that fire crews and police began spotting the fatal feline, but were "waiting for the guys with the tranquilizer gun."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Just read a pretty good article. Old employees are coming out of the wall. One was particularly interesting where an “expert” was “testing” the critters capability. I found it in google news but never grabbed the title.
The whole city is staffed with professional amateurs!!! It's San Francisco!
Another death, and two injures, that likely would have not happened if several zoo visitors at the time were armed.
The 2nd Amendment was intened not only to give us a way to defend ourselves against a marauding government and marauding criminals.
It also covers situations involving marauding animals.
I honestly don’t really blame the zoo for not letting the police and fire crews in at first - especially the fire crews, which likely weren’t armed, but at any rate none of them would be likely to be as capable of dealing with the situation as the zoo staff (who would know how the animal would be likely to behave outside its enclosure, how to deal with an escaped animal, etc).
At 5:27 p.m., the deadly events intensified as officers spotted the feline but were unable to shoot because other cops were in the line of fire.
Shouldn’t the cops in the “line of fire” have been able to do anything?
The tiger was in between the officers. They were in a crossfire situation.
That's because you weren't the bloody victim lying on the ground outside the cafe with a tiger attacking you while you were crying, "Help me. Help me."
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