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Hatterasguy · #16 01-06-2008, 09:15 PM

I think this deserves to be on the Darwin award website! These guys would fit right in.

aklim · #17 01-06-2008, 09:22 PM

We are all animals. At some point, something snaps. Take a human being. Provoke it enough and all the reason in the world won't work. So, if you are going to keep provoking something, be it animal or it's sub-species the human being, and you die, WGAS? Not I.

WVOtoGO · #18 01-06-2008, 09:23 PM

Nice post Bot.
I agree, 100%.

I just felt odd reading: “WILD ANIMAL” and “CONTAINED AND NOT ABLE TO ESCAPE” in the same sentence.

I think of wild as also being free.
There’s nothing “wild” about contained and not able to escape.

aklim · #19 01-06-2008, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

I think this deserves to be on the Darwin award website! These guys would fit right in.

Yes but maybe we should observe a moment of silence for the poor tiger. Now the zoo will also be short a tiger. Sad.

t walgamuth · #20 01-06-2008, 10:49 PM

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As much as I may agree with what you're trying to say...

There's just something wrong about this statement.

The problem with this statement is the assumption that the tiger would only jump out if provoked. If that were true you would only need a four foot fence and then folks would know not to provoke him.

The big cat cages obviously need a top to them.

The courts will award a lot of money to the family of the kid who became the tiger's lunch, and rightfully so.

Tom W

aklim · #21 01-06-2008, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

The problem with this statement is the assumption that the tiger would only jump out if provoked.

The courts will award a lot of money to the family of the kid who became the tiger's lunch, and rightfully so.

Did the tiger jump out when he was not provoked?

Only if people like you are on the jury. They will have to kill me to make me vote that way. Personally, I'm glad he was lunch. He deserved it for provoking the tiger.

Hatterasguy · #22 01-06-2008, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Yes but maybe we should observe a moment of silence for the poor tiger. Now the zoo will also be short a tiger. Sad.

Yep the real loser in this was the tiger, such a shame they are beautiful animals. They should have just stunned the tiger, he could have munched on those three morons until they got a stun gun out there.

t walgamuth · #23 01-06-2008, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Did the tiger jump out when he was not provoked?

Only if people like you are on the jury. They will have to kill me to make me vote that way. Personally, I'm glad he was lunch. He deserved it for provoking the tiger.

Bet me. The people on the jury will be like me not you.

You guys think a kid deserves to die for teasing an animal at the zoo?

Really?

Tom W

cmac2012 · #24 01-07-2008, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim B.

It was recently reported that all of these kids were apparently high on cocaine, marijuana and alcohol (or a combination of these) when they were messing with the tiger, and that was one of the reasons they have refused to co operate with the police.

The only real winners in this one will be the attorneys who can use all this to generate fees.

I'd live to a few years ago in San Francisco, for 25 years. In that time there were only two pretty large attractions I'd neglected to visit.

One of them was the Cable Car museum.

The other was the zoo.

I hope this dean of high stakes ambulance chasers, Geragos, gets stiffed on this one.

I have yet to see the zoo myself. After the mauling a year ago, I was thinking I'd better go while it's still around, no telling what might happen. I'm going to stop by one day soon.

A growing, though likely small contingent favors getting rid of urban zoos altogether, instead going with larger rural retreats. Animals would have a better life and visitors would always be with a group of some size, on semi-regular tours.

Some letter writers to the SF Chron said they have frequently seen harrassment of zoo animals by teenagers. Something lousy in the symbolic lesson there.

cmac2012 · #25 01-07-2008, 12:06 AM

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Bunch of punks waiting around quietly for a pain and suffering check, makes me wanna hurl.
That tiger was endangered, and its their falt it had to be killed. I say make them pay for the tiger, and the time lost to the zoo.

I was thinking to myself that the tiger was about to take out the trash when she was stopped.

Course the story would have taken a much different direction had the brothers been killed also.

If it's proved within reason that they taunted and harrassed the tiger excessively, I say give them medical bills and a two year scolarship to a Cal. Community College of their choice. Not a penny more.

cmac2012 · #26 01-07-2008, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Yes but maybe we should observe a moment of silence for the poor tiger. Now the zoo will also be short a tiger. Sad.

Some guy got out some word about a memorial for the tiger on the beach across from the zoo and 4 people plus 2 reporters from the Chron came, lit candles, etc. Made the paper anywho.

The zoo has a memorial notice up for both the young man and the tiger.

greasybenz · #27 01-07-2008, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Trakehner

Next field trip to the zoo your mom should tell her students not to taunt animals.

Not all kids will listen. Especially when they are in a big class (were talking 30+ students) and a few people watching them. Kids are kids many of them are going to misbehave and are going to throw popcorn at tigger.

aklim · #28 01-07-2008, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Bet me. The people on the jury will be like me not you.

You guys think a kid deserves to die for teasing an animal at the zoo?

Really?

Unfortunately, I think you are right. That is why things are so screwed up today. You screw up and somebody else is to blame. It is never your fault. It is somebody else's fault.

Yes. A kid old enough should know better than to screw with a dangerous animal. He deserves what he got.

Really.

aklim · #29 01-07-2008, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by cmac2012

If it's proved within reason that they taunted and harrassed the tiger excessively, I say give them medical bills and a two year scolarship to a Cal. Community College of their choice. Not a penny more.

If they are too stupid to know better, why give them an education? They are incapable of learning, IMO.

aklim · #30 01-07-2008, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by greasybenz

Not all kids will listen. Especially when they are in a big class (were talking 30+ students) and a few people watching them. Kids are kids many of them are going to misbehave and are going to throw popcorn at tigger.

then don't take them anywhers till they can behave.