[pandoraou812]

I am sorry anyone was killed, including the tiger . However I don’t like animal abusers. I don’t want to see them dead but darn it these adults should have known better. They weren’t young kids who you could say didn’t know any better. These guys did. The zoo is at fault for not protecting the tigers better too. They should have had a bigger wall & something up to stop people from throwing stuff at any of their animals. Video cameras should have been in place & the zoo needs guards walking around making sure nothing bad is happening. I still don’t understand why a zoo would be open on Christmas either.

[CindyDawg]

I can’t argue with that. It’s looking more and more like the one that got killed may have been a tag a long . You see that about a witness saying there were 4 of them?

[livius]

They need a bigger wall and more keepers. The reason all this info is coming from other patrons is that there appears to have been no employee around at the time this happened - even thought it was closing time, dark, etc.

We know someone who worked as a keeper at an alligator farm. One day he walked by the crocodile cage and saw a man dangling his four-yr-old over the fence into the cage, holding the child by his feet. It turns out that Daddy had dropped his sunglasses into the cage and and was lowering his son over the fence to pick them up. Fortunately, the crocs had been fed shortly before that, and the keeper dragged the kid out before anything could happen.

But the point is that it is incredible what stupid things people will do. And zoos, unfortunately, have to go on the assumption that they need to have the facilities, the equipment and the personnel to protect against human stupidity - and the SF zoo obviously didn’t have it.

[Xenalyte]

However I don’t like animal abusers. I don’t want to see them dead but darn it these adults should have known better.

You're nicer than I am (which I think would go without saying). My hand to God, I think all animal abusers should die.

[avacado]

"I still don’t understand why a zoo would be open on Christmas either."

It's San Francisco. There is no Christmas, only "Holidays."

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

The zoo is open every day of the year, I think.

[olivia3boys]

I think zoos are open on Christmas for the same reason Disneyland is open on Christmas (and Disneyland is insanely crowded on that day)—it’s something to do with the kids after morning gift opening!

I’m sure Disneyland and other kid-friendly places make a lot of money during the “holiday season;” people are on vacation and many parents don’t want to be cooped up with lots of kids in the house. . .