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OK...I just saw an interview with the Dad of the teenager killed at the S.F. zoo. I'm paraphrasing here, but in response to the boys taunting the tiger he said, "Sticks, throwing stones...it doesn't matter. A tiger isn't supposed to escape..."
But where does plain ole stupidity factor into it? The S.F. Chronicle is reporting:
"San Francisco police are investigating the possibility that one of the victims in the fatal tiger mauling on Christmas Day climbed over a waist-high fence and then dangled a leg or other body part over the edge of a moat that kept the big cat away from the public...The minimal evidence found at the scene included a shoe and blood in an area between the gate and the edge of the 25- to 30-foot-wide moat...Authorities were looking into whether the tiger escaped by latching on to a leg or body part...Sources said pinecones and sticks that were found in the moat might have been thrown at the animal. Those items could not have landed in the grotto naturally, they said."
Let me see, if you climb over one fence go another 20 yards and climb and even larger fence, dangle a limb over and throw things at a wild beast...how can that not factor into the equation?
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
swanie
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