I wonder if the 21 foot rule applies to Tigers? 
For the tiger … not against the tiger.
Sucks when you are not top of the food chain…:eek:
Gee! In the San Fran zoo you’d think they’d only have Gay Tigers who were raised on a Vegan diet. You don’t grow a 300 lb cat on sprouts and soy meat.
Ban tigers!
I wonder what they shot it with and how the rounds performed…
Seems now that the story is one of the geniuses was actually inside the enclosure with the tiger and did something to provoke it…
Yet another “Hold mah beer 'n watch this!!!” moment.
Probably long guns…I dunno what SFPD carries. I know that if I was responding to a tiger on the loose call, I’d be packing the biggest medicine I could get my hands on.
On cnn headline news they’ve been showing a guy’s video ireport whatever of a tiger roaming around what may be the sf tiger grotto. Notice that he climbs down into the moat, and at one point there are two tigers down there, so I wonder if there is water down there?
For Tiger medicine, the .375 H. & H. with 300 grain bullets would be considered by most to be the safe minimum. Lion is one of the African “Big 5” dangerous game, Rhino, Buffalo, Leopard and Elephant being the other four.
I doubt if the SFPD would have anything close to proper Tiger Medicine.
According to the news here, 4 SFPD officers shot the tiger with their depart issued Sig 226 in 40 S&W “numerous” times after the tiger began mauling the 2nd victim. The tiger already killed the 1st victim and hunted down the 2 other victims after they ran 300 yards. The tiger ignored other zoo visitors and followed a blood trail left by 2nd victim. Needless to say “numerous” 40 S&W rds downed the tiger.
The 2 other victims were treated at SF General hospital, they were very uncooperative with medical staff and cops. In other words, jerks. The sh** has hit the fan. This station seems to have the best coverage vs the other media stuff here.
adolescent males… nah no way they were taunting the little kitty. And, bloody shoes found inside perimeter… golly gee, how’d that happen?
Not cooperative witnesses… hmnn… would the truth 1) make them look stupid 2) impead the suit they’ll soon have against the city of SF?
Of course the with uber lib mentality of SF being that no one is actually responsible for their actions. It was probably a Tiger with a history of racially discrimanitory actions.
hahah, that is a good one.
Do not feed the animals…
Makes me want to build a .416 rigby on an action I’ve been stashing away… :o
Well lets see you have caged wild animals who are predators/hunters by nature. Then you have a couple of darwin award winners who decide to intrude into their territory and provoke them. Like Forrest said stupid is as stupid does.
They were stupid, however they are soon to reap a huge pay off for their stupidity. They should be in jail instead. That was a tiger and a half.
The fact that someone can sue for this is pretty much a sign of all that is wrong with America.
Respose from some fellow Texan…
http://wcco.com/watercooler/tiger.dead.dallas.2.619137.html
DALLAS — A veterinarian at the Dallas Zoo performed a necropsy Thursday on a female tiger found shot to death near an apartment complex, a zoo official said.
The tiger did not belong to the zoo and was believed to have been someone’s pet. It was found Christmas Day in a vacant lot near a busy interstate and an apartment complex, said zoo spokeswoman Susan Eckert.
The Department of Agriculture is investigating, Eckert said.
An unidentified caller phoned a city hotline on Christmas Day about a dead animal, Eckert said. A sanitation crew that arrived to clean it up found a full-grown tiger under a blue tarp.
“They knew this wasn’t a normal thing to find along the road, so they delivered it to the zoo,” Eckert said.
Zoo veterinarian Dr. Thomas Alvarado performed a necropsy, an autopsy for animals. He found five gunshot wounds, including one in the head and one in the thorax.
The tiger was nearly 6 feet long and weighed about 180 pounds. Zoo officials believe it is a Bengal tiger and was “fairly young,” Eckert said. It appeared to have been in good health before being shot, although it hadn’t eaten in about a day.
The tiger had all its teeth. Zoo officials said they believe it was someone’s pet because it was declawed and had a collar around its neck. It also had a leash that appeared to be a bicycle chain, Eckert said.
The zoo will store the tiger’s body until federal officials decide what to do with it, Eckert said.