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1 posted on 01/01/2008 5:43:00 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
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To: Mr. Brightside

How San Francisco!

That said, while I think these “kids” (the oldest being 23, that is, not a kid) were jerks, the zoo is in big trouble.

Personally, I think the Diwahili brothers were trying to freak out the teenager who actually got killed, perhaps by threatening to boost him into the cage or something similar.

However, the zoo had had other complaints about the tigers leaping the moat and charging people who weren’t even tempting or taunting them, and the management had not responded or had just shrugged.

In 1999, a woman had a tiger leap the moat because her 4 yr old was bouncing around at the fence. She screamed and drove the tiger off, and then went to get a keeper, who told her that the tiger in question was a b***h and did that whenever it could, and he couldn’t do anything about it. The woman wrote a letter to zoo director that was never answered.

If the zoo gets sued, SF deserves it. The tiger facility was built in 1948, and they fired the guy who was going to redesign it in the 80s.


2 posted on 01/01/2008 5:53:03 PM PST by livius
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Tiger-Attacked Brothers Hire Legal Pit Bull

Brothers Who Survived Mauling Hire Mark Geragos and Plan to Sue San Francisco Zoo

By MARCUS BARAM

Jan. 1, 2008

"There are some very disturbing facts yet to come out about what happened," Geragos told ABCNews.com. "One of the brothers had absolutely no reason to be attacked. After Carlos was attacked, this brother ran to the zoo café and they would not let him in. The same guys who sold him nachos wouldn't let him back in. They locked the doors. Thirty minutes later, he was attacked by the tiger."

According to those logs, firefighters and police officers were forced to wait outside for as long as six minutes by zoo security guards enforcing an emergency lockdown.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4072527&page=1

3 posted on 01/01/2008 5:55:48 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
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Mark Geragos

A prostitute you only have to pay if you receive "satisfaction."

4 posted on 01/01/2008 5:56:10 PM PST by bannie
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Aacck! No photos! I saw the headline, closed my eyes as I clicked and did a Great Carnak prediction: “Gotta be Gera-gross!”

By golly, wish there were a prize to win.


10 posted on 01/01/2008 6:09:58 PM PST by Rte66
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Geragos makes me ill


16 posted on 01/01/2008 6:21:52 PM PST by RDTF
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I figured they’d hired John Edwards.


17 posted on 01/01/2008 6:22:55 PM PST by festus (Fred Thompson '08)
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The victims will be represented by defense attorney Mark Geragos...

How many cases has Geragos won? I can't think of any.

27 posted on 01/01/2008 6:44:13 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (Real men don't vote Democrat.)
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More detail here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4072527&page=1


29 posted on 01/01/2008 6:52:42 PM PST by elli1
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hahahahahahahahah! The Mark Geragos who made a fool of himself in the Scot Peterson case? High profile, low performance! He must have paid those stupid brothers to take him on. hahahahahahah!


33 posted on 01/01/2008 6:57:04 PM PST by apocalypto
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Winona - convicted; Peterson - convicted; Jackson - acquitted but disgraced. Has Geragos won a case lately?


75 posted on 01/02/2008 6:11:08 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("At last my arm is complete!" Sweeney Todd)
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To: Mr. Brightside

If I was on the jury, I wouldn’t give them a single cent.


76 posted on 01/02/2008 8:40:12 AM PST by Wolfie
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Where would you want this case to be tried? If it is held in San Francisco who would win? They might try to make the tiger the victim. I have read many post trying to use law and common sense to make their case. This is the city of the Twinkie defense. We can try to understand what is happen but with a cast of, San Francisco, zoo, peta might have something to say, high profile lawyers, foreign born plaintiffs and the outside change of Cindy Shehand claiming it was Bush's fault because we spent the money or Iraq instead of Zoos, no true poster here is crazy enough to start to understand what might happen with this case. This a city where feeling good trumps facts and hyperbole is tomorrows goal.
78 posted on 01/02/2008 9:43:19 AM PST by ThomasThomas (An investigative journalist is one who uses spellcheck.)
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Cha Ching


85 posted on 01/02/2008 11:45:19 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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Good, Geragos the IDIOT almost always loses his high profiles. This is great news for the zoo and the poor tiger.


98 posted on 01/02/2008 2:14:49 PM PST by Yaelle (If Fred loses it's our loss. Not his.)
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That sure didn’t take them long.

All they deserve for tormenting that tiger is what they got.


122 posted on 01/03/2008 6:39:50 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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