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.
I read tonite the coppers found vodka and slingshots in their car. Doh!
Happy New Year.