When Tiger(s) Attack

That will be an Esquire story next year. They do an issue on what it feels like.... This year, they had a piece on a guy who was mauled by a grizzly bear.

 

Don't you think for a fucking second that didn't cross my mind when I read that post, my friend. Having a right arm is overrated, anyway.

 

Was this tiger a member of an endangered species?

 

Yes, which may explain why it wasn't put down after it attacked a handler last year.

 

Police now treating the SF Zoo as a crime scene, leaving open the possibility that someone intentionally let the Tiger out.

Jack Hanna on CNN saying he'd be stunned to learn that the Tiger jumped that high or that far to get out of the pen.

It will be interesting to see if this involved negligence or even if someone did something criminal.

 

Fox News reporting the guys taunted the tiger.
Bet me the zoo hasn't thrown that out there to deflect blame.

 

Well, if that is the case it is weak. Not a day goes by during which some idiot taunts some animal -- at any zoo. Makes me wonder sometimes who should be behind the bars/glass and who should be free to come and go.

 

The Siberian tiger is one of the rarest of animals, as well as one of the most beautiful. Not that you'd feel that way if one were chomping on your head. But it is a damned shame that this animal had to be shot.

I will be very interested to see how this critter got loose. Or if they ever figure it out satisfactorily. A horrible incident. My love for zoos, which I've had since childhood, diminishes each time something remotely like this happens.

 

So the guy's taunted the tiger enough to make the tiger jump over whatever barriers they had set up around it's enclosure and eat 'em?

 

Duh... Haven't you seen the 'Messin' with Sasquatch' commercials??

 

From the SF Chron story:

The minimal evidence found at the scene included a shoe and blood in the 25-foot-wide moat that surrounds the tigers’ grotto, raising questions about what role, if any, the victims might have had in accidentally helping the animal escape.
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Officials speculated that one of the victims may have been dangling a leg or other body part over the 14-foot grotto wall and that Tatiana latched onto the limb and climbed out. Police sources said a footprint had been found on a metal fence, suggesting that someone had climbed it to get closer to the big cats.

Latched onto a leg and climbed out? Ouch.

 

The more I read about the brainiacs involved in this attack, the more I think this is a Darwin Award waiting to happen.