Tiger attack!

metaoblivia

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/26/tiger.attack/index.html

Authorities have searched the San Francisco Zoo four times and are certain that there are no more victims of a Siberian tiger who escaped from her pen and mauled to death one man and attacked two others Tuesday.
"There were no other tigers that were lose in the zoo and no more victims," San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong said Wednesday.

Tuesday night and Wednesday morning searchers used infrared and heat-sensing tools and also walked the area between where the tiger is believed to have gotten out of her cage and a cafe -- a route of one-eighth of a mile -- where the attacks took place.

It's unclear how long the 300-pound female tiger was out of her cage, Fong said.

Police are taking statements from anyone who might have seen the animal.

Police shot shot dead the tiger Tuesday as she attacked her second and third victims, Fong said.

Another incident of American police brutality?

Rb

Obviously didn't get what she wanted for Christmas.

MagicMarker

Na, if the tiger was attacking people then the police had to shoot. But otherwise they should have tranquilizer darts.

The same tiger attacked a zoo employee earlier in the year too.

andrew

Wow imagine just walking innocently through a zoo, all relaxed, and suddenly you see a huge facking tiger just right in front of you :eek:
At least he could have 'killed by a tiger' on his tombstone. That'd be pretty cool.

Peyton Manning

I wonder if they tasted Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!

metaoblivia

Archimedes wrote: »

I wonder if they tasted Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!

+1. I'm still LOLing

tallus

LOL me too!! hahahhahah

Kess73

What caught my eye was that the attack was meant to have taken place after 5 pm, which was after that section of the zoo was closed to the public.

Pigman II

metaoblivia wrote: »

Another incident of American police brutality?

I would have thought as much. Expect to see Californian pussycats looting rubbish-bins in response to this outrage.

Jim

Fair play to the tiger.

Dyr

I'd imagine al sharpton et al are going to claim that the jackbooted thug cops executed this upstanding asian-american

RAFC

andrew wrote: »

Wow imagine just walking innocently through a zoo, all relaxed, and suddenly you see a huge facking tiger just right in front of you :eek:
At least he could have 'killed by a tiger' on his tombstone. That'd be pretty cool.

I think he would prefer to read that on SOMEONE else's tombstone. Sad Christmas for his family

Bob in Belfast

RAFC wrote: »

I think he would prefer to read that on SOMEONE else's tombstone. Sad Christmas for his family

What about the poor tiger?
I don't know if the tiger had any family.

Jim

andrew wrote: »

Wow imagine just walking innocently through a zoo, all relaxed, and suddenly you see a huge facking tiger just right in front of you :eek:
At least he could have 'killed by a tiger' on his tombstone. That'd be pretty cool.

Imagine innocently walking through Siberia, all relaxed, and suddenly a load of men shooting you with darts and locking you up.

At least he could have "Shoot Trying To Escape" on his tombstone. Actually, they'll probably chop him up and feed him to the other animals.

Thundercracker

I heard about this on the news. Sad the tiger had to be put to death, because Im all for animal rights and everything, but if the tiger was endangering the life of a person and had already killed someone and injured someone on a previous occassion then I think the correct course of action was taken. Still, it'll make you apprichate your zookeeper more the next time you see him

Bob in Belfast

I know a Zoo keeper and he's very fond of rum(drunken slob)and he kicks the penguins.

WindSock

Cool. How much does it cost to have a real face to face encounter with a Tiger at the Zoo?

lostexpectation

this is obviously a plot by christian fundamentalist, who would be in a zoo on christmas day, think about it

remeber that girl who got attacked up in belfast ownder what happened to her

leninbenjamin

lolwtf?

Manic Moran

Thundercracker wrote: »

I heard about this on the news. Sad the tiger had to be put to death

In this case, I don't think "put to death" is quite the right way of saying it. That implies it was done in a thought-out and pre-meditated manner.

It was more like "Holy crap, look what that tiger did to that poor bugger. And he's mauling someone else! Quick, shoot, before it kills him as well." I am not well familiar with tranquilizer darts, but I would strongly doubt that one would have quite the same immediate effect as a .40 cal.

Another incident of American police brutality?

Funny.

You know that under CA law, anyone, police or otherwise, is entitled to use lethal force (Even against a human) to defend another human life? CA Penal Code S197. I strongly doubt you could make the argument that life and limb were not at stake.

NTM

phantom_lord

poor tiger

Toto Wolfcastle

Kess73 wrote: »

What caught my eye was that the attack was meant to have taken place after 5 pm, which was after that section of the zoo was closed to the public.

I think they just stopped letting people in after 5, and whoever was already in was allowed stay for another hour.

The guy who died was only 17.

I'm all for treating animals right, but this tiger was on top of the 3rd victim and the only thing to do was shoot. If I had a bloody tiger on top of me I wouldn't want people standing around wondering what type of tranquiliser is needed!

Kess73

janeybabe wrote: »

I think they just stopped letting people in after 5, and whoever was already in was allowed stay for another hour.

The guy who died was only 17.

I'm all for treating animals right, but this tiger was on top of the 3rd victim and the only thing to do was shoot. If I had a bloody tiger on top of me I wouldn't want people standing around wondering what type of tranquiliser is needed!

Ahh thanks for that, I was wondering why there were people there if the zoo was shut.


I see on this mornings news they are starting to think that the tiger was let out either on purpose or by someone messing around with the door to it's enclosure.

Mr. CooL ICE

Manic Moran's signature wrote:

No animals were hurt in the writing of this post.

:D:D

metaoblivia

For the record, I think the right action was taken.

New article up on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/27/tiger.attack/index.html

Officers yelled at the tiger to stop, and did not fire immediately "for fear that they would not be able to contain their fire," she said. "When the yelling was occurring, the animal turned toward the officers," who then shot and killed the animal, Fong said.

RobbieTheRobber

Zoo's are a danger to people they should be shut down
Imagine if all the penguins got loose :eek:

Hester

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

Zoo's are a danger to people they should be shut down
Imagine if all the penguins got loose :eek:

Yeah, they'd be looking for revenge after their abuse by this guy:

Bob in Belfast wrote:

I know a Zoo keeper and he's very fond of rum(drunken slob)and he kicks the penguins.

Manic Moran

Listening to the local news station in the car, apparently this could well have been an example of Darwin in action. Death by Stupidity in other words.

According to the information released by SFPD, evidence is pointing to the three attacked persons (who were visiting the zoo together) having been taunting the tiger by throwing sticks and pine cones at it, and then, once the tiger was suitably annoyed, clambered over the wall/fence. The tiger then decided to have a crack at them, leaped the moat towards the fence, grabbed a hold of one kid's leg as a purchase, allowing it to bound up over the fence itself.

NTM

pickarooney

Do life insurance policies pay out in cases like this?

Calibos

Manic Moran wrote: »

Listening to the local news station in the car, apparently this could well have been an example of Darwin in action. Death by Stupidity in other words.

According to the information released by SFPD, evidence is pointing to the three attacked persons (who were visiting the zoo together) having been taunting the tiger by throwing sticks and pine cones at it, and then, once the tiger was suitably annoyed, clambered over the wall/fence. The tiger then decided to have a crack at them, leaped the moat towards the fence, grabbed a hold of one kid's leg as a purchase, allowing it to bound up over the fence itself.

NTM

Sounding more and more like the Norn Iron young lady who had her arm ripped off/nearly ripped off in Dublin Zoo a few years ago.

"I know, wait till no one is looking and jump the 3 gates, run a few hundred yards down a lane behind the tiger house..........and stick my arm into the tiger pen to pet the big puddy cat!!!" "Oh Noes, My arm is inside the tigers Belly!!, Its the Zoo's fault, there should have been a sign that specifically said...'WARNING!! DONT jump the 3 gates, run a few hundred yards down a lane behind the tiger house..........and stick your arm into the tiger pen to pet the big puddy cat"

joseph brand

I know a Zoo keeper and he's very fond of rum(drunken slob)and he kicks the penguins.

from Bob in Belfast.


Love it.

ed6hellsfresh

In one of the articles I read about this they were puzzled how the tiger got over the 20ft wall and moat around the enclosure.

My teeny tiny cats could jump a 20ft wall if they realllly wanted to, and as for the moat, I saw on a documentary before that tigers can swim... also this pic proves it pretty well.

TheBigLebowski

ed6hellsfresh wrote: »

My teeny tiny cats could jump a 20ft wall if they realllly wanted to

eh, no they couldn't.

AlmightyCushion

TheBigLebowski wrote: »

eh, no they couldn't.

You can do anything if you put your mind to it. So can cats.

Zillah

Manic Moran wrote: »

According to the information released by SFPD, evidence is pointing to the three attacked persons (who were visiting the zoo together) having been taunting the tiger by throwing sticks and pine cones at it, and then, once the tiger was suitably annoyed, clambered over the wall/fence. The tiger then decided to have a crack at them, leaped the moat towards the fence, grabbed a hold of one kid's leg as a purchase, allowing it to bound up over the fence itself.

Er, what?

Weren't two of them in a cafe when they were attacked? Like...the tiger specifically hunted down the people that had tormented it?

Thats a cool black-parody-of-a-disney-film right there.

passive

two months old...

And hmm... Assuming that to be true, maybe the tiger has some kind of magical way of finding people... Hunting skills or somesuch...

biko

Maybe they had put on Tiger Balm? Bad idea in any zoo. It's like tiger catnip.

BKtje

passive wrote: »

two months old...

And hmm... Assuming that to be true, maybe the tiger has some kind of magical way of finding people... Hunting skills or somesuch...

You mean like an incredible sense of smell? They were only 200m away after all

ScumLord

andrew wrote: »

Wow imagine just walking innocently through a zoo, all relaxed, and suddenly you see a huge facking tiger just right in front of you :eek:

I'd be pretty disappointed if I didn't come across a tiger at some stage during my visit to the zoo.

Dragan

metaoblivia wrote: »

Another incident of American police brutality?

Hardly, when 300lbs of feline death is on the lose you tend to shoot to kill in fairness.

Surely the whole concept of wild animals in zoo's is far more brutal?

Dinter

Kess73 wrote: »

What caught my eye was that the attack was meant to have taken place after 5 pm, which was after that section of the zoo was closed to the public.

I really, really hope they were crusties in the act of trying to free the tiger from captivity.

RobbieTheRobber

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

Zoo's are a danger to people they should be shut down
Imagine if all the penguins got loose :eek:

Well if Futurama has taught me anything, its that penguins carry shotguns.

antodeco

Poor Old tigger. IM sure Pooh was well distraught at Christmas. Im all for the Tiger hunting down those who tormented it. Id say +1 to the tiger, but -1 for his death.

I blame Al Quedea Tigerists...