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In the battle to see who's going down and who gets what and how much in court, new "evidence" suggests that possibly, maybe, perhaps Tatiana the tiger was provoked. It seems that said proof is in the form of a footprint and blood found inside the tiger enclosure at the SF Zoo. According to the kids down at KCBS:
...a significant amount of blood was found on an exhibit sign inside the tiger enclosure, a foot and a half from the public railing. The blood on the sign indicates someone may have climbed the railing and was attacked while standing in the planted area between the moat and the railing.The source also said a footprint found on top of the three-foot high railing was located on a portion of the railing across from the sign.
Pro-Tatiana activist and SF Zoo spokesperson Sam Singer also confirmed that blood was found on foliage inside the tiger enclosure. But? How it got thee or whose veins the blood ran through prior to spattering remains unanswered. Khulbir and Paul Dhaliwal's team of attorney deny that the boys were inside the enclosure during the now infamous Christmas Day big-cat attack that killed their friend, Carlos Sousa Jr.
Footprints? Blood? Rapscallions? We really need Jessica Fletcher on this case.
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This can't be newly discovered evidence. Sam Singer is working very hard to earn his money - trying to mitigate public reaction to the 911 transcripts that show the zoo didn't have a clue how to respond in an emergency.
Parents are always picking up their little kids and propping them on top of exhibit railings. If the tiger had gotten one of them, would that also have been provocation?
DONT TEASE ME, BRO!*
*yes, animal taunting is a fact of life in zoos, and if tatiana was teased, that does not mitigate the zoo's lack of responsibility to keep its patrons safe. when you privatize shit to "reduce costs" you very often wind up reducing safety and accountability.
I understand that Ice-T and Richard Belzer do detective work these days...
(dammit, rageahol. now i have to go watch taser footage. really, i'm trying to get off of the stuff.)
agreed. now that i think about it more, whether or not she was taunted seems like it should be a worthless point in this case.
that is awesome!
fry those fucking worthless excuse for indian americans
they are the shame of an entire race of people
watch geragos claim that tatiana leeped out unprovoked, snatched carlos souza's shoe and leaped back in.
hilarious!
at the beach, what's your point. those railings are 50 feet from the animals on any given day and well beyond anywhere an animal could leap.
read the story!
The point is that the railings were not 50 feet from the tiger on December 25. Are you suggesting that the victims somehow helped the tiger to leap out? Not even Sam Singer has said that a ladder or ramp has been found.
me, i'm suggesting that the tatiana is, in fact, a thunder cat. i see no other way around it.
It totally matters! People need to learn that it is not okay to taunt or abuse animals whether they are in zoos, on the streets, or in peoples' homes. If only David Huckabee had been at the zoo on the same day.... I'm just saying.
Are you calling her a "HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" ?
(I always thought that was a weird intro)
Sounds like they were trying to let Tatiana out. Hope they are charged with animal abuse and only get their medical bills covered.
Come on Gloria Aldred we need you to defend Tatiana.
you aren't paying attention. a bloody shoe, blood, a footprint were all found inside the pen or on the other side of the railing that you'd have to jump over.
am i saying that they helped her jump out, yes!
probably inadvertently but i'm guessing that the hoodrats were hanging one of their homies over the wall and into the pen after having pelted her with all kinds of shit to get her going. she then jumped the wall with all her might, grabbed onto one of these hoodlums leg that was dangling and leaped out and over him.
then they were fucked!
i just wish she had a chance to kill them all, then jump back in so nobody could prove it was her.
such a waste!
Yeah, it might not matter if they were only throwing shit at her, but the second they climbed over the fence, they lost their right to expect protection. It doesn't matter if they actually assisted her escape in any way; the fence was there for a reason, to explicitly mark the border between "you have a reasonable expectation of not getting killed here" and "abandon hope all ye who enter." They willfully disregarded their part of the safety guarantee, so they bear full responsibility for the consequences.
And really, I have a hard time believing that this is the first time people have thrown things at the tigers, or even this particular tiger. Yet never before has one of them escaped.
suckafree, did you forget to take your blood pressure medication today or something?
why do all the regular commenters seem to be bitchy, hateful, vengeful little turds?
i'm just trying to be like you, master!
;)
while i have been known to occasionally call people nasty names, i cant ever recall wishing bodily harm on someone in this forum. try another excuse.
I still can't say I blame the folks inside the concession stand for opening the door to help those teens out - these kids grew up and often imitate the Punk'd and JackAss entertainment they watch, and I'd want to make sure I was safe first and foremost before opening the door to some screaming anybody.
Right on Brock. Thundercats, HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I think it was "don't TASTE me, bro!"
Thank you, I'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your waitstaff.
And I echo suckafree's comments wholeheartedly. A person who taunts/torments a caged animal is a waste of humanity. Period.