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 TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA
#7898513 - 01/18/08 06:05 PM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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Police: Victim Drunk During Tiger Attack
Jan 18,- hosted.ap.org
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- One of the three victims of San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday.
Paul Dhaliwal, 19, told the father of Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was killed, that the three yelled and waved at the tiger but insisted they never threw anything into its pen to provoke the cat, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.
"As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have been taunted/agitated by its eventual victims," according to Inspector Valerie Matthews, who prepared the affidavit. Police believe that "this factor contributed to the tiger escaping from its enclosure and attacking its victims," she said.
Sousa's father, Carlos Sousa Sr., said Dhaliwal told him the three stood on a 3-foot-tall metal railing a few feet from the edge of the tiger moat. "When they got down they heard a noise in the bushes, and the tiger was jumping out of the bushes on him (Paul Dhaliwal)," the documents said.
Police found a partial shoe print that matched Paul Dhaliwal's on top of the railing, Matthews said in the documents.
The papers said Paul Dhaliwal told Sousa that no one was dangling his legs over the enclosure. Authorities believe the tiger leaped or climbed out of the enclosure, which had a wall 4 feet shorter than the recommended minimum.
The affidavit also cites multiple reports of a group of young men taunting animals at the zoo, the Chronicle reported.
Mark Geragos, an attorney for the Dhaliwal brothers, did not immediately return a call late Thursday by The Associated Press for comment. He has repeatedly said they did not taunt the tiger.
Calls to Sousa and Michael Cardoza, an attorney for the Sousa family, also weren't returned.
Toxicology results for Dhaliwal showed that his blood alcohol level was 0.16 - twice the legal limit for driving, according to the affidavit. His 24-year-old brother, Kulbir, and Sousa also had alcohol in their blood but within the legal limit, Matthews wrote.
All three also had marijuana in their systems, Matthews said. Kulbir Dhaliwal told police that the three had smoked pot and each had "a couple shots of vodka" before leaving San Jose for the zoo on Christmas Day, the affidavit said.
Police found a small amount of marijuana in Kulbir Dhaliwal's 2002 BMW, which the victims rode to the zoo, as well as a partially filled bottle of vodka, according to court documents.
Investigators also recovered messages and images from the cell phones, but apparently nothing incriminating in connection with the tiger attack, the Chronicle reported.
Zoo spokesman Sam Singer said he had not seen the documents but believed the victims did taunt the animal, even though they claim they hadn't.
"Those brothers painted a completely different picture to the public and the press," Singer said. "Now it's starting to come out that what they said is not true."
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bodynotdead
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: bodynotdead]
#7898528 - 01/18/08 06:07 PM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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Where is MATT when we need them? (Mothers Against Tiger-Taunting)
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: bodynotdead]
#7898673 - 01/18/08 06:45 PM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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Of course it is somehow marijuanas fault.
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: Chemy]
#7898948 - 01/18/08 08:00 PM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: bodynotdead]
#7899538 - 01/18/08 10:21 PM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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Stoned on vodka.
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: mathewww]
#7900482 - 01/19/08 04:35 AM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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I love how the media attempts to twist this as if he was killed because of his actions. The railing was 4 feet below the minimum. It is completely forseeable to the city that some "punk" kids would taunt the animals. Here the benefits clearly outweigh the cost. If the the city was to construct the enclosure 4 feet higher, it would almost certainly prevent a tragedy such as this. So the cost of 4 feet more of fence or concrete, 5,000 dollars? Surely the life of a drunk a 17yr old is worth more, correcT?
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: bodynotdead]
#7900573 - 01/19/08 05:51 AM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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Imagine his final thoughts as he was mauled to death by the beast.
Hahaha, he thought he was being funny. Thought the tiger couldn't get him.
I bet he soiled his fucking pants when that tiger jumped out and fucked him up.
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: Ego Death]
#7900603 - 01/19/08 06:33 AM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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What really cracked me up is the media asking over and over again. Why would the tiger attack....
Ümmmmm maybe çuz its a fucking tiger........
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 Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: Cubie]
#7900713 - 01/19/08 08:06 AM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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Here kitty kitty kitty...  
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b0b gnarley
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: vinsue]
#7900966 - 01/19/08 10:06 AM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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Damn I wish they got a video
ahh, but some things never happen
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: b0b gnarley]
#7902015 - 01/19/08 02:30 PM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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You know what they say.....
"Don't start no shit & there won't be no shit!"
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: Evets]
#7902195 - 01/19/08 03:25 PM (10 months, 8 days ago) |
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Quote:
Evets said:
I love how the media attempts to twist this as if he was killed because of his actions. The railing was 4 feet below the minimum. It is completely forseeable to the city that some "punk" kids would taunt the animals. Here the benefits clearly outweigh the cost. If the the city was to construct the enclosure 4 feet higher, it would almost certainly prevent a tragedy such as this. So the cost of 4 feet more of fence or concrete, 5,000 dollars? Surely the life of a drunk a 17yr old is worth more, correcT?
Of what minimum do you speak?
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: Ojom]
#7903339 - 01/19/08 08:16 PM (10 months, 7 days ago) |
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The 4 foot minimum tiger-proof christmas wall of course!
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: Gastronomicus]
#7903586 - 01/19/08 08:57 PM (10 months, 7 days ago) |
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Maybe, if they had been smoking pot.Instead of pissing off a 400lb natural born killer.They would be alive today...
Edited by Brainiac (01/19/08 10:07 PM)
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: Evets]
#7903735 - 01/19/08 09:44 PM (10 months, 7 days ago) |
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Quote:
Evets said:
I love how the media attempts to twist this as if he was killed because of his actions. The railing was 4 feet below the minimum. It is completely forseeable to the city that some "punk" kids would taunt the animals. Here the benefits clearly outweigh the cost. If the the city was to construct the enclosure 4 feet higher, it would almost certainly prevent a tragedy such as this. So the cost of 4 feet more of fence or concrete, 5,000 dollars? Surely the life of a drunk a 17yr old is worth more, correcT?
Personally I'd rather see idiots eaten by tigers than waste money on a bigger fence. It's called evolution and it's a beautiful thing.
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: FecalDildo]
#7904744 - 01/20/08 05:13 AM (10 months, 7 days ago) |
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see, now its this sorta scandalous behavior gives tiger taunting a bad name
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 Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA [Re: FecalDildo]
#7905148 - 01/20/08 09:55 AM (10 months, 7 days ago) |
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Quote:
Personally I'd rather see idiots eaten by tigers than waste money on a bigger fence. It's called evolution and it's a beautiful thing.
The tiger didn't even get to finish its snack of Homo Sapiens.
Karma always has a way of balancing the scales 
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Re: TIGER TAUNTERS STONED ON POT & VODKA *DELETED* [Re: FecalDildo]
#7905535 - 01/20/08 12:05 PM (10 months, 7 days ago) |
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Post deleted by PsycKaliDelicateReason for deletion: Double post.
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Sounds like the zoo don't want to pay for what they have caused. Hell they even want to charge the victims with a crime. This really fucking makes me mad. The idiot who decided to either put the tiger an area that did not meet guidelines or the idiot who decided to be cheap and not make the wall tall enough(assuming he knew a tiger would be placed in there) should be charged with a serious crime.
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