Posted on 08/06/2009 12:12:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN MATEO -- The two San Jose brothers who survived a Christmas Day 2007 tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo were arrested in San Mateo for misdemeanor violations after a traffic stop, the latest in a series of run-ins with the law, authorities said today.
The brothers recently split what remained of a $900,000 settlement the zoo paid them in connection with the attack. Their arrests come two weeks after the older sibling, Kulbir Dhaliwal, 25, was booked on suspicion of felony cocaine possession after being stopped near San Jose State University.
The latest incident happened Wednesday when a San Mateo police officer stopped Dhaliwal for driving on a shoulder on-ramp to Highway 101 near Peninsula Avenue, said Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County's chief deputy district attorney. Dhaliwal's passenger was his brother, Amritpal "Paul" Dhaliwal, 21.
The officer smelled the odor of marijuana in the car and saw an open bottle of Grey Goose vodka inside, Wagstaffe said.
Kulbir Dhaliwal failed a series of field-sobriety tests and had a blood-alcohol level of .10 percent, authorities said. The level that constitutes drunken driving is 0.08 percent. When the officer asked Amritpal Dhaliwal for his identification, he lied and said he was Tarlok Dhaliwal, his 26-year-old brother who had also been arrested in the incident near San Jose State, authorities said.
Kulbir Dhaliwal, meanwhile, "joined in the lie" and also said his passenger was Tarlok Dhaliwal, Wagstaffe said.
Police eventually obtained the proper identification and learned that Amritpal Dhaliwal was on parole and was trying to hide his identity, Wagstaffe said.
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Rodney King Syndrome
IIRC the original tiger was put down, but I’ll bet the zoo has a few left.
They seem like wonderful people.
Too bad Tatianna didn’t dine on all of them.
Tha’s a good one
Taxpayers, get ready to pay another settlement!
How sad a beautiful Tiger was destroyed and these two filthy pieces of sh*t are consuming perfectly good oxygen.
How sad a beautiful Tiger was destroyed and these two filthy pieces of sh*t are consuming perfectly good oxygen.
The zoo should send a bill to the state for reimbursement.
The tiger reduced the burden on the state’s substance abuse, housing, food stamp, jail, and medical systems. It fell short in its quota that night by two.
RIP Tatiana.
I love tigers.
Amritpal Dhaliwal... WTF kind of name is Armpit Al Dhaliwal?
I actually saw Tatiana when she was alive when I lived in SF. The zookeepers let the lions in first for public feeding, and everyone was really impressed and scared by their presence. Then they let Tatiana in and she made the two adult male lions look like bobcats by comparison. Only being chomped in half by a great white shark could possibly be more horrifying than getting mauled to death by a Siberian tiger.
These brothers are the luckiest unlucky morons still walking on the face of the Earth.
Dhaliwal sounds like it might be from Punjab, India. I know several Sikhs (long military tradition in British and Indian Armies) in this country who are structural and civil engineers.
What losers!! They should have left them in the tiger pit.
Armpit...and his brother Kool Beer...losers.
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