S.F. Zoo visitor saw 2 victims of tiger attack teasing lions

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Patricia Yollin, Tanya Schevitz, Kevin Fagan,

[repinwi]

Jennifer Miller, who was at the zoo with her husband and two children that ill-fated Christmas afternoon, said she saw four young men at the big-cat grottos - and three of them were teasing the lions a short time before the tiger's bloody rampage that killed 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr.

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When a friend told Miller about the attacks - first reported to 911 dispatchers at 5:07 p.m. - she called police the day after Christmas to tell them what she had seen. She called back Wednesday because she was wondering why news accounts mentioned only three young men.

[repinwi]

So now we have a witness who saw these guys taunting the tiger. Maybe they weren't cooperating with police because they didn't know who died? The witness says there were 4 idiots.

[Ann Archy]

I thought maybe the “witness” was lying until she said there were FOUR guys!!

[rocksblues]

Mark Geragos is their lawyer. Now that is who I would hire if I had nothing to hide./s

[MizSterious]

FYI

[laotzu]

What would you do for a Kit-Kat bar?

[Red in Blue PA]

They deserved what they got and more.

I only feel sorry for the great tiger. Godspeed Tatiana.

[repinwi]

Ya know what I’m smiling about though? I’m smiling because no matter HOW much money these little Dhaliwal turds get from this incident, wherever they go for the rest of their lives people are going to be making tiger sounds just to mess with them.

[muawiyah]

Kind of like the folks who come up behind Ned Beatey and say "Squeal Like A Pig".

ROTFLMAO

[Canedawg]

They deserved what they got and more.

I only feel sorry for the great tiger. Godspeed Tatiana.

ENDORSED.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

I think you mean Klondike? :o)

But I got what you meant. I actually LOL'd when I sang it out loud to myself and then envisioned the conversation the KittyChowKids had right before their departure.

[Lonely Bull]

Among other interesting stuff:

‘She said Sousa - whom she later recognized from his photo in the newspaper - was not heckling.

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‘Sousa refrained from such tactics, Miller said.

‘”He wasn’t roaring. He wasn’t taunting them,” she recalled. “He kept looking at me apologetically like, ‘I’m sorry, I know we are being stupid.’”’

and

‘San Francisco police Inspector Valerie Matthews said investigators had talked to Miller on Wednesday but haven’t been able to substantiate yet her account of a fourth person with the victims at the zoo. Authorities have been unable to corroborate reports that the victims taunted the tigers, she said.’