[Jackknife]

It wasn't a cage ~ no roof on the confinement area.

Picky, aren't we? Let me re-phrase ........

"Still doesn't cause me any pity for idiots taunting a man-killer in a cage 'confinement area'. I don't buy the premise that it was 'just a matter of time' ........ "

[muawiyah]

Turns out the confinement area was not sufficiently secure to keep a tiger inside.

In which case it was just a matter of time until a tiger decided it wanted to be outside and took action to get there.