Tiger escapes and kills 1, hurts 2 in San Francisco

[AGDee]

While I think they were idiots for agitating a tiger, I still think that it's the zoo's responsibility to ensure that the tiger can't get out, no matter how agitated it is.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by AGDee

While I think they were idiots for agitating a tiger, I still think that it's the zoo's responsibility to ensure that the tiger can't get out, no matter how agitated it is.

I agree. I also stand by what I said earlier: that most of what people do at the zoo could be seen as "taunting" or "agitating" according to what these kids said they did. Most kids I see at the zoo are waving at animals or shouting out things like, "HI TIGER!" - sometimes at the encouragement of their parents. People don't think of it as taunting then, so why is it suddenly bad now? The zoo has a responsibility to reasonably protect people on its property from what people would consider harmful. And I think it goes without saying that people assume a zoo has taken the steps necessary to keep its dangerous animals away from the visitors; if they didn't think so, they wouldn't go!

[RACooper]

Sorry PeppyGPhiB but I have to disagree here because of one important bit mentioned in the article - the fact that the "tools" in question and the evidence shows that they where both in violation of the Zoo's safety warnings (by standing on the railing), and that this also suggests that they were doing far more than "waving at it" or saying "Hi, Tiger"... I'm pretty confident that they were baiting the tiger by dangling their legs or something in stupid drunken/high bravado - and the fact that the tiger was pissed off or agitated enough that it shredded it's claws getting out at them sorta backs that up I think... or shows evidence that the tiger made more than one leap and claw at the wall for some reason (looking at the claws I mean).