[yorkie]

Sorry - the word should be ‘standing’. It’s the danged computer’s fault. ;-(

[doc1019]

Yep, stand in front of a 300 lb carnivore and wave your arms! Fence or no fence … kitty will attack.

[pandoraou812]

Yorkie can you come to the other thread & please post this info...thanks! hugs ~Pandy~

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955200/posts

[Mr. Brightside]

An autopsy conducted by a zoo veterinarian on the Siberian tiger after police shot it to death showed that the animal had been "very determined to get out," Matthews said. Its claws were broken and splintered by clambering up the concrete moat wall, Matthews quoted the veterinarian as saying.

"This behavior may be consistent with a tiger that has been agitated and/or taunted," Matthews said.

So is the zoos policy is only to secure "non-agitated" animals?

[RDTF]

they are jerks but never thought the cat could get them. We all rely on the facility to keep us safe. So did the tiger.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger's enclosure,

Paul Dhaliwal, 19, denied throwing anything into the enclosure or otherwise antagonizing the animal,

WTF?

[Rte66]

So, they did invade the tiger’s territory, in a manner. In Tatiana’s airspace, they would’ve looked like giants. Talk about feeling threatened, I’m sure she did.

[Rte66]

Oh, wait a minute - the “railing” meaning the ledge of the moat? I was thinking this meant the chain link fence - but it must be the little ledge that Jack Hanna earlier talked about being one that she could’ve grabbed onto to pull herself up and out.

Yikes, that means they had traversed the whole “no man’s land” between the fence and the moat.

[org.whodat]

The zoo officials and the mayor are sure scared of this settlement. Wonder how many time they threaten the retirement of the officer.

[metmom]

Play with fire and get burned bump

[TigersEye]

The search warrant affidavit was prepared Tuesday by police Inspector Valerie Matthews, the lead investigator in the case, and was filed with the court late Thursday. It cites multiple reports of a group of young men taunting animals at the zoo as basis for a court to grant police the right to search the cell phones and BMW, where police said they had seen the partially full bottle vodka bottle in the front passenger seat.

THERE'S NO PROOF OF THAT!!! /hysterical anti-PETA rant

[ReignOfError]

Teenagers drinking Grey Goose? I obviously ran with the wrong crowd. Not that my crowd wasn’t quite as drunk and stupid, but we were on a much lower budget.

[Razz Barry]

Earlier this month, the younger Sousa's mother, Marilza Sousa, said in an interview that Paul Dhaliwal had told her, "We didn't do nothing. We were just normal kids in the zoo."

If they "didn't do nothing", what did they do?

She added, "That's what happened - just dancing, talking, laughing like normal kids."

Just smoking dope, drinking, and DUI "like normal kids."

[Marie2]

If I were on a jury, and learned that the victims actually entered the tiger’s enclosure, I am not sure I would consider the zoo to be very liable.

[nicmarlo]

fyi:

Police: Tiger attack victim was drinking, admitted taunting

..."As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have been taunted/agitated by its eventual victims," according to Inspector Valerie Matthews, who prepared the affidavit. Police believe that "this factor contributed to the tiger escaping from its enclosure and attacking its victims," she said.

Sousa's father, Carlos Sousa Sr., said Dhaliwal told him the three stood on a 3-foot-tall metal railing a few feet from the edge of the tiger moat. "When they got down they heard a noise in the bushes, and the tiger was jumping out of the bushes on him (Paul Dhaliwal)," the documents said. Police found a partial shoe print that matched Paul Dhaliwal's on top of the railing, Matthews said in the documents. Video Watch how a victim's desperate 911 call was handled » The papers said Paul Dhaliwal told Sousa that no one was dangling his legs over the enclosure. Authorities believe the tiger leaped or climbed out of the enclosure, which had a wall 4 feet shorter than the recommended minimum.