Posted on 12/30/2007 12:48:07 PM PST by gitmo
I had that feeling once. I didn’t think they could see but an alligator was looking up at us. I moved us on.
I cannot BELIEVE there is not a readilly-available high-powered rifle on hand at all times in the Zoo Headquarters, just for such emergencies as this. That omission is NEGLIGENCE. Waiting on the cops? Pathetic. HELLO LAWSUIT!
Later reports, and the police chief’s statement, corrected that. The shoe was found outside the enclosure.
In another thread it was reported that staff were going around looking for her with guns and medication but the cops found her first.
The “bloody shoe” story appears to be zoo propaganda put out to deflect blame. There was no shoe. All the victims had their shoes on ~ unless, of course, the tiger managed to kill and eat somebody we don’t know about.
Maybe for this idiot being born.
Not so surprising. An eyewitness had identified the suspect as a large cat with stripes on its coat.
Disease from stagnant water? I would think the cost of water purification would convince management to opt out of moats.
lol
Misanthropy in San Francisco is virtually ubiquitous. From the start the investigation focused upon how the victims may have instigated the attack, never mind the sub-standard enclosure.
Most likely it is a cost factor. Still, water is often part of exhibits for polar bears and hippos, no too mention for the various sea creatures like seals and water fowl.
Somebody may do so. They have bred shortlegged domestic cats, just Google Munchkin Cats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBO2U7SZ5qs&feature=related
“a tiger choose to look at me”
I had that experience at the Detroit zoo. No one else noticed, but a tiger fixed his eyes on me, and intense fear gripped me, as I wondered if he could clear the moat and the fence. I didn’t say anything to my Dad who was with me, but you may be sure I moved right on to the next exhibit.
At the San Diego Zoo, 27 years ago, an Alaska Brown Bear fixed me in its gaze and followed ‘til I was out of sight.
It was recognizably the same look I give a succulent deer over my rifle sights. And I was VERY conscious of being unarmed.
One time about 2:00 AM in the pub a beer eyed moose looked at me. The lights came up. I felt like prey. It was uncomfortable.
ok - seems lots of revisions coming on this ....
hey - could happen ...maybe that shoe was there from a previous feed ...>grin<
It was recognizably the same look I give a succulent deer over my rifle sights. And I was VERY conscious of being unarmed.
One should always be armed, even though it might be only with a handgun. It may prove to be a serious discourager, if a dangerous animals escapes its enclosure. Who knows, one might even get lucky.
Absolutely, and with a tranquilizer dart.
I suspect our simian (and/or possibly more recent) ancestors developed specific triggers for large cats deep in pre-history that are still residual in our brains today which you and I are describing being evoked.
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