Bingo! By the end of the month, there will be a wall like this:
And the zoo personnel will be equipped like this:
Posted on 01/18/2008 4:43:05 PM PST by indcons
One of the three victims of San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday.
Paul Dhaliwal, 19, told the father of Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was killed, that the three yelled and waved at the tiger but insisted they never threw anything into its pen to provoke the cat, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.
"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.
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.
The affidavit also cites multiple reports of a group of young men taunting animals at the zoo, the Chronicle reported.
Mark Geragos, an attorney for the Dhaliwal brothers, did not immediately return a call late Thursday by The Associated Press for comment. He has repeatedly said they did not taunt the tiger.
Calls to Sousa and Michael Cardoza, an attorney for the Sousa family, also weren't returned.
Toxicology results for Dhaliwal showed that his blood alcohol level was 0.16 — twice the legal limit for driving, according to the affidavit. His 24-year-old brother, Kulbir, and Sousa also had alcohol in their blood but within the legal limit, Matthews wrote.
All three also had marijuana in their systems, Matthews said. Kulbir Dhaliwal told police that the three had smoked pot and each had "a couple shots of vodka" before leaving San Jose for the zoo on Christmas Day, the affidavit said.
Police found a small amount of marijuana in Kulbir Dhaliwal's 2002 BMW, which the victims rode to the zoo, as well as a partially filled bottle of vodka, according to court documents.
Investigators also recovered messages and images from the cell phones, but apparently nothing incriminating in connection with the tiger attack, the Chronicle reported.
Zoo spokesman Sam Singer said he had not seen the documents but believed the victims did taunt the animal, even though they claim they hadn't.
"Those brothers painted a completely different picture to the public and the press," Singer said. "Now it's starting to come out that what they said is not true."
Do predatory animals have an understanding of moral concepts like good and evil, and the capacity to decide to behave in accordance with a system of morals or disregard them? If not, how could a tiger have free will?
The boy and the tiger both did not deserve to die but it happens and all and the zoo are part to blame.
You can’t build or legislate against stupidity.
There goes the law suit!<p?What will a SF jury do about the height-of-the-fence issue?
Yup, child car seats, seat belts, ABS brakes and airbags would have prevented this.
The next time I walk across the street, I'll turn on my GPS and accident avoidance system, and dial 911.
And don’t forget the labels! Label anything and everything to remind us not to do something stupid. Sure it will cost money, but it will save lives. < sarc >
No idea. What's 'moral' for a tiger may be far different than what's 'moral' for a human.
Suppose the tables were reversed? Would you really expect a human to target the specific tigers that were tormenting him, or would you expect them to go on a rampage and try to destroy every tiger in the jungle?
Hint: look how many sharks get slaughtered when one attacks a kid...
If not, how could a tiger have free will?
To my way of thinking, that the tiger showed restraint in only attacking the selfsame people who were tormenting it. That the tiger was capable of exercising restraint when fully enraged is an indication not only of free will, but of a fairly high order of ethical thinking.
OTOH, I could be wrong, full of bull, or just pulling your chain...
Bingo! By the end of the month, there will be a wall like this:
And the zoo personnel will be equipped like this:
Oh. You mean in the same way that people are unpredictable?
Or in Freudian terms, they have a weak ego and no super ego at all.
Could you prove to a space alien that you have a super ego? Or is that merely a construct that Freud created to try to splic the inexplicable?
LOL......but the more I think about it, that’s how our zoos are going to look because of the Dillys. Everything will change.
From what some of the lawyers on various panels have said, the zoo’s responsibility will not be 100%. I forget the word they used, but essentially, the yoots will have to bear some of it, too. I have no doubt the zoo will be paying out some money, but not nearly as much as the yoots and Garagos were hoping.
And there might be more story changes as time goes on.
I don't find that to be factual. They contributed arousing the tiger's predatory state. But they didn't contribute to the tiger's escape.
Yeah? A neighbor chick came over to my house in an advanced state of inebriation, and tried to grab a newborn puppy from mommy dog.
She got bit.
I got sued, even though it wasn't my dog, and I wasn't even there when it happened.
Guess who won $75,000.00?
NO man's life, liberty, or property are safe as long as court is in session...
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