Teen killed by tiger had drugs, alcohol in his system

[dragonrider]

If he had climbed into the enclosure then he would deserve it but being the victim of an escaped tiger isn't in the same league.The fact that the enclosure was wrongly built is the reason the cat escaped and the reason he is now dead.
I doubt you or Rebgirl would've fared any better if you were faced with the same beast.

The zoo is at fault for having an enclosure that the tiger could escape from. That is completely unexcusable and led to the death of this kid AND the tiger. The fact that they were stoned or drunk is completely irrelevant. However, I do believe that they were taunting the tiger, and I have no sympathy for anyone who would torment an animal.

dragonrider Reviewed by dragonrider on 06-05-2008. Teen killed by tiger had drugs, alcohol in his system The 17-year-old San Jose teen mauled to death by a San Francisco Zoo tiger on Christmas Day had some alcohol and pot in his bloodstream, according to a coroner's toxicology report. Carlos Sousa Jr. had 0.04 percent ethanol and 6.6 nanograms of Delta-9 THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in his blood stream, according to a report performed almost six months ago by NMS Labs in Willow Glen, Pa. The toxicology attachment is part of a larger examination of Sousa's death - caused Rating: 5

[Mississippi Steve]

If he had climbed into the enclosure then he would deserve it but being the victim of an escaped tiger isn't in the same league.The fact that the enclosure was wrongly built is the reason the cat escaped and the reason he is now dead.
I doubt you or Rebgirl would've fared any better if you were faced with the same beast.

Sorry to disagree, but I have enough sense *NOT* to torment an animal, and cause it to escape its confines to attack its tormentor. That exhibit had *NEVER* had a problem before until those idiot kids started throwing rocks and stuff at the cat.
I have been to that zoo many times and have seen the exhibit. Common sense tells you that there won't be a problem until somebody comes along and makes it a problem.

There is no such thing as "idiot proof", because they keep making smarter idiots.

[psychocat]

There is no such thing as "idiot proof", because they keep making smarter idiots.

Surely that's an oxymoron ?

[Mississippi Steve]

Surely that's an oxymoron ?

Yup...just like Progress and Congress

[daihashi]

This was caused from stupidity, not drugs.

I don't really feel bad for this kid. I'm just glad he didn't breed, we don't need this goober's seed floating around society.

Who has ever been so high that they look over to their friends and go, "Fuck, we should go pay 15.98 a peice and fuck with the animals at the zoo!"

No one, damnit. Except maybe that Sigfried and Roy guy.

While I normally silently agree with your posts... I feel you seriously need to go back and re-read the article of how this happened and the eye witness accounts of the boy who actually died.

People acknowledged that this boy was not antagnozing the animals. His friends were, but since when were someone elses actions our own? :P

The issue here is not the boys. Would you share the same cold callous sentiment if a 5 year old boy had been mauled and mamed for throwing something at the tiger? I seriously doubt you would.

The issue here was the Zoo security and making sure animals stay inside their enclosures.


Yes I do get stoned and decide to go to the zoo. There is nothing wrong with that.

While I agree you shouldn't antagonize animals no matter what the age.. I very much strongly disagree with the disgusting notion that you deserve to die if you go to the zoo to have fun and jackass around with the animals.

:wtf:

[daihashi]

The zoo is at fault for having an enclosure that the tiger could escape from. That is completely unexcusable and led to the death of this kid AND the tiger. The fact that they were stoned or drunk is completely irrelevant. However, I do believe that they were taunting the tiger, and I have no sympathy for anyone who would torment an animal.

The kid who died was not taunting the tiger.. His two idiot friends were though.

[daihashi]

Sorry to disagree, but I have enough sense *NOT* to torment an animal, and cause it to escape its confines to attack its tormentor. That exhibit had *NEVER* had a problem before until those idiot kids started throwing rocks and stuff at the cat.
I have been to that zoo many times and have seen the exhibit. Common sense tells you that there won't be a problem until somebody comes along and makes it a problem.

There is no such thing as "idiot proof", because they keep making smarter idiots.

Listen to yourself...

It never happened before.. therefore it could never possibly happen unless someone makes it happen? That just sounds ridiculous. Read that sentence over and over again because that is the basic summary of your post.

Regardless if someone made it happen or not that is not the point or issue at hand. The point is that it shouldn't be able to happen even if someone were to provoke an animal. The zoo has to think about the safety of the community of the people in the Zoo... not just the individual viewing the exhibit.

In that regards it is the ZOO's RESPONSIBILITY to make sure that incase some jackass jerk provokes a tiger.. that it can't get out and hurt innocent people.

[dragonrider]

Going to the zoo stoned is great, and I have done it several times. I'd hate to think I might get eaten by a runaway tiger and then get blamed for it when my postmortem blood tests came back. That's adding insult to injury (or to death as the case my be).

[SFGurrilla]

Maybe it was stressed. Couldn't get high so it ate something with the chemical flowing already in it.

Smart cat.

Poor dude.

[SFGurrilla]

Surely that's an oxymoron ?

Smart idiots?

Nah that just means high IQ people or people with a relitivly inteligent mind structures. That do stupid thing because they dont use there gifts to reason.

Thus the smart idiot.