Can you say “lawsuit”?
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with EMT’s waiting until they knew the zoo was secure. What puzzles me is what happened between the time zoo officials were “dealing with it” and the time the tiger was shot.
One of the animals I was really attached to when I was a zookeeper escaped a few years after I had moved on. She was a very playful Russian Brown Bear. They had to shoot her ... she was a very powerful animal. I’ve often thought I could have gotten her back into her enclosure without harming her.
But there were other animals I would have shot before getting anywhere near them.
Not really. In less than 10 minutes the victim was found and paramedics were rendering aid. The cat was killed in less than 20 minutes. During this time they found the cat and EMS and police were on the scene. While confusion I’m sure, I don’t see chaos.
The place was a real zoo there for a while.
Shortening the tiger's legs would work, too....;^)
The cops shot and killed the tiger less than 20 minutes after the first call came in. And the scene was chaotic? Gee, who woulda guessed. In the past, whenever a dangerous animal was loose in a zoo, the scene was very tranquil and the situation was resolved in an orderly manner within the first thirty seconds. If only these three wonderful lads had tormented the tiger while it was still light out.
The one single time in my life I actually felt the ‘prey’ instinct go off (as in ‘I am prey’) was when a tiger choose to look at me for a bit at the Edinburgh Zoo. I do assume if I had been that close to other large cat predators the sensation might have been very similar.
It was quite disconcerting, though also illuminating, in a way.
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!
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.