You know, at first I was suspicious of the two survivors’ unwillingness to talk to anyone.
But then I see what stories people (here and elsewhere) are willing to build out of scraps of facts, half-facts, and outright non-facts. Like the slingshot thing, “reported” in one paper and then widely discussed, so that people hear something about it on Fox and think it must be have been verified. Like speculation that they’re Muslims, even though they have clearly Indian names, not that it would matter anyway. Like the insistence that no tiger ever jumped out of that enclosure before, even though more witnesses have attested to that than have claimed to see any taunting.
And I watch the zoo officials continue to drop vague hints that “something must have provoked” the tiger to jump out, even though they have no basis for any such claim.
And I start to think the guys were d*mn smart to STFU until they talked to a lawyer.