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January 18, 2008

Tiger Attack Update: Tiger Taunted, Says Report

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According to police reports Paul Dhaliwal admitted to "standing atop a railing of the big cat enclosure and yelling and waving at the animal that would later maul them," killing Carlos Sousa Jr. on Christmas Day at the SF Zoo.

The trio, it seems, were also hopped up on mary jane and expensive vodka. Toxicology reports turned up numbers indicating that Paul was especially wasted during the attack. His blood alcohol level was 0.16 percent after Tatiana's reign of terror, "twice the legal threshold for drunkenness." ("Threshold for drunkenness." Heh.) Kulbir Dhaliwal's blood alcohol level came out to 0.04 percent, and lightweight Sousa's was at 0.02 percent. According to the Gate:

Police said they had recovered messages and images but apparently nothing incriminating in connection with the tiger attack. Investigators seized a small amount of marijuana as well as a partially filled bottle of Grey Goose vodka from the car, according to the inventory that police submitted from the search.

They also found a kit commonly used to defeat drug testing, which included a vial of unisex synthetic urine, police said. Paul Dhaliwal was on probation stemming from a drunken driving incident that occurred before the attack.

Oh oh. Mark Geragos has some explaining to do.


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Comments (12)

Too bad that beautiful tiger had to die because of these idiots. she should've killed all of them.

 

Grey Goose is not CHEAP vodka!

 

Grey Goose is not CHEAP vodka!

 

those morons were probably drunk on popov vodka...grey goose is too good for them...
ok.they're middle class little boys...maybe it was daddy's smirnoff.

 

Dear junior PR executive for Grey Goose, the writer cleverly used the word "expensive" so as not to confuse the readers into thinking the exact opposite.

In other news, drunk, stoned kids bait tiger. Tiger eats them. It's an open and shut case. This happens all the time in India and the general consensus is, the winner in a tiger/human fight has justice on their side.

 

Paul needs to go to Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.

 

The tiger probably would have also attacked innocent people in time. Even if the cops knew everything that had transpired, they still would have had to stop the tiger.

And surely, this cannot be the first time in history that wastoids taunted a wild animal. The zoo is responsible for safety of its animals and reasonable safeguards for its visitors. It failed miserably in both tasks.

 

I note that the SF Zoo's website shows at least one of the cafes serves beer and wine.

Cue Alanis Morissette song?

 

Yeah, what a stupid zoo. Letting its tiger commit sucide-by-cop.

 

If they taunted it with a ladder, a rope, or a staircase, then it's their fault. Otherwise, it's the zoo's fault. Case closed.

 

Additionally, the whole concept of verbal taunting is questionable, perhaps ludicrous. Okay, so the guys verbally taunted the tiger. Would they be less guilty if they had spoken in Swahili? Farsi? Klingon? Ameslan?

Or what if it were just little kids screaming in delight? In Cantonese?

 

A good lesson in Karma will get you!
The tiger can now rest in peace,as it taught many of us a valuable lesson. Treat others as you want to be treated, those gangsters bullied her like high school and Tatiana fought back.

 
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