This settlement was expected by many, but that does not take away from the fact that it is a joke.
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_12480242?nclick_check=1
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_12480242?nclick_check=1
San Francisco Zoo Huge Settlement For Taunting Tiger
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Indeed, it does not ... nor does it constitute real justice! It seems - on the face of things - a true measure of how far removed "justice" really is from the "truth" in the USoA.
However, I would like to see the full trial transcripts on the whole affair. I am convinced lawyers and judges are NO AUTHORITY on animal behaviour or enclosure design or any other matter related to zoo management.
I am not convinced for a moment that the true nature of the whole affair has been elucidated. The mere question: why does a captive tiger of yonkers years suddenly jump at the general public out of her enclosure? has never been addressed properly. So much talk about barrier heights and tech design ****, but the real questions have never been asked nor answerred to the fullest extent.
Talk of drugs and violence-related felonies on the part of the 2 defendants have been thrown out of the window over police mistakes in prosecuting and has had the "race issue" stamped all over it.
To me, it is no joke ...., rather a sad reminder of how low we have sank.
In Europe, we have had a similar indicent in the much publicised gorilla escape in Rotterdam-Blijdorp zoo (my second hometown zoo which I love dearly - allthough some purists love to denounce this or the other town Amsterdam in some ill-minded thought process of some people of rather questionable description -). It has been elucidated by primate behaviorists why the great ape jumped his barrier - unexpectedly (as has been the case with the Siberian tiger at SF Zoo) - and attacked that "particular" woman in the first place and ignored everyone else in the zoo and was taken back to his haunts by keepers and curatorial staff like a sleeping baby). I have no details of the civil lawsuit or damages claimed or awarded in this case, but it is nowhere near the laughable amounts donned out in the SF/California courts to these "particular" "zoo visitors".
So many questions left unanswered in the SF Zoo case and I think it is ill-conceived to put the entire blame on the city zoo ... it is too convenient, too indulgent and too ignorant by a mere couple of billions .....
However, I would like to see the full trial transcripts on the whole affair. I am convinced lawyers and judges are NO AUTHORITY on animal behaviour or enclosure design or any other matter related to zoo management.
I am not convinced for a moment that the true nature of the whole affair has been elucidated. The mere question: why does a captive tiger of yonkers years suddenly jump at the general public out of her enclosure? has never been addressed properly. So much talk about barrier heights and tech design ****, but the real questions have never been asked nor answerred to the fullest extent.
Talk of drugs and violence-related felonies on the part of the 2 defendants have been thrown out of the window over police mistakes in prosecuting and has had the "race issue" stamped all over it.
To me, it is no joke ...., rather a sad reminder of how low we have sank.
In Europe, we have had a similar indicent in the much publicised gorilla escape in Rotterdam-Blijdorp zoo (my second hometown zoo which I love dearly - allthough some purists love to denounce this or the other town Amsterdam in some ill-minded thought process of some people of rather questionable description -). It has been elucidated by primate behaviorists why the great ape jumped his barrier - unexpectedly (as has been the case with the Siberian tiger at SF Zoo) - and attacked that "particular" woman in the first place and ignored everyone else in the zoo and was taken back to his haunts by keepers and curatorial staff like a sleeping baby). I have no details of the civil lawsuit or damages claimed or awarded in this case, but it is nowhere near the laughable amounts donned out in the SF/California courts to these "particular" "zoo visitors".
So many questions left unanswered in the SF Zoo case and I think it is ill-conceived to put the entire blame on the city zoo ... it is too convenient, too indulgent and too ignorant by a mere couple of billions .....
Further proof that the lunatics are running the asylum!