Tiger kills 17-year old at San francisco Zoo

[Ice]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22395368/

SAN FRANCISCO - The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo was cordoned off as a crime scene Wednesday as investigators tried to determine whether a 300-pound Siberian tiger that killed a visitor escaped from its high-walled pen on its own or got help from someone, inadvertent or otherwise.

Police shot the animal to death after a Christmas Day rampage that began when the tiger escaped from an enclosure surrounded by what zoo officials said are an 18-foot wall and a 20-foot moat. The tiger also severely mauled two brothers who also were visiting the zoo.

Police Chief Heather Fong said the department has opened a criminal investigation to "determine if there was human involvement in the tiger getting out or if the tiger was able to get out on its own."

This story has been all over the news and the investigation looks like it will take weeks, it makes you wonder how safe Zoos are and who is working in them.

 

[CoverUinOil]

this is what we get for putting wild animals in cages. I mean i like going to the zoo with my kids, sure its great that they can see animals they would never see unless i went to Africa, but eventualy those animals will just stir up their wild instinct and go crazy.
Too bad the kid couldnt be saved.

 

[johnnieCzech]

Well this one escaped actually, which sucks ass for the kid.
But let me tell you, we had a case in Prague like ten years ago. Two drunken assholes had a bet in zoo - that one of them, who actually had been celebrating passing some university exam, would get into a tiger's den. Yeah he did. But guess what. He never made it out alive. I think the guy should have been awarded with some serious retard award - in memoriam.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

Be careful, the Zoo could be the last place you ever visit.

 

[Ice]

According to reports they where shooting stuff at the tiger with slingshots. I guess they learned never anger a big cat.