The Zoo must be staffed with professional amateurs.
related:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1945652/posts
(a couple of comments)
They must have lawyers lined up around the block begging to represent them on contingency.
When John Edwards drops out of the race shortly, he can represent the victims families. I see a new Riviera beach house in his future.
A whole lotta people are going to be in big trouble.
They should feed the zZookeeper to the tiger.
and all the while Tatiana was gnawing on them. ack!
We live a couple hours’ drive north of SF, and I had been looking forward to taking my little sons to the SF Zoo when they were old enough ... but I strongly suspect the Zoo will be history by that time. I will be astounded if they can keep the zoo open after all the (for once, well-justified!) lawsuits are settled.
The zookeepers must be morons. A house cat can scale a six foot wall. How high can a motivated tiger jump? And can’t most people just look and tell the difference between 12 ft and 18 ft? Good grief.
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?