Sometimes stupidity IS a capital crime. It would have been so if they had played chicken with a freight train. Few here would blame the freight train and the railroad as they have the tiger, though.
Few here would blame the freight train and the railroad as they have the tiger, though.
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I don’t know that I’ve read a single post over the last week or so suggesting that the tiger was to blame. Those not siding with the yutes on this seem more to be suggesting that the height of the wall was inadequate, which seems obviously true in retrospect.
If the yutes taunted, then they clearly were in a position to avoid the situation, but the mere fact that under any circumstances, a tiger being able to escape its enclosure should give us all pause.
No, it is not the same. A person knows that the train will continue down the track, whether they are on the tracks or not. Those men did not know that the tiger could escape. They might have been thugs, they might have been cruel, but they were not necessarily stupid. It was reasonable to believe that they were safe from the tiger's retaliation. The tiger should not have been able to get out under any circumstances.
And I do not blame the tiger. She was being a tiger. I blame the zoo. The wall did NOT meet the minimum guidelines.