Report: Tiger victims had slingshots, empty booze bottle
This in today's New York Post:
"Two brothers who were injured when a tiger attacked them at the San Francisco Zoo had slingshots on them at the time, a source said.
An empty vodka bottle was also found in a car used by Amritpal Dhaliwal, 19, and his brother, Kulbir, 23, on the day of the mauling, which left 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. dead, according to the source.
The discoveries could be an indication that the brothers may have taunted the 350-pound Siberian tiger before it leapt from its grotto."
Apparently those brothers haven't been cooperative with police, and haven't even talked to Sousa's dad. But they have hired Mark Geragos to sue the zoo -- even though both brothers are due in court on Jan. 15 for public intoxication and resisting arrest charges in a separate incident. If those brothers fired stuff at the tiger with a slingshot, taunted it while drunk, etc., then I hope Geragos is about as successful as he was defending Scott Peterson.
Sad that these idiots didn't become tiger food! Unfortunately, these idits will probably be in front of a sympathetic judge in the 9th Circus Court...
Stupidity should be painful!
Posted by: Tetzman | January 02, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Yup, they should be tiger-food for sure. Sad that people go out of their way to hurt others.
Another bad experience I had regarding zoos was dumb people throwing glass bottles into the gorilla pen at the L.A. zoo.
Posted by: Bohemund | January 02, 2008 at 02:52 PM
Sounds like Tiger Chow to me or as my wife would say, Darwinism in action.
Posted by: Scott Sheffield | January 02, 2008 at 03:41 PM
Mess with the tiger, you get the hor- err, claws.
Posted by: Reaps | January 03, 2008 at 02:51 AM