I am starting to feel sorry for the Tiger...

I was going to try to exercise when i got home from work tonight, but then i started watching the news coverage of the Bhutto assassination thing in Pakistan... very depressing.

In other news,  I'm sure you guys heard about the deadly Tiger attack at the SF Zoo the other day.  At first it seemed really horrific that a tiger had escaped and attacked three zoo visitors.   Ultimately the police shot the tiger after it had killed one of person and severely mauled two others.

But now that details are coming out and it looks like it wasn't a case of the tiger escaping because of a gate left open or a design flaw in the enclosure.   And the three victims didn't just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  It looks like the victims may have been taunting the tiger and that it perhaps even climbed out by grabbing onto one of their legs as they dangled them into the enclosure....

Here's some video:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/27

I'll wait for the rest of the details to be released by the police before i nominate these guys for the Darwin awards... but it obviously wasn't a random attack.

hmm...  now i kind of feel sorry for that tiger for getting shot because of these idiots.  All the wildlife and zoo experts they've interviewed on TV have pretty much given the same answer:  The tiger was just being a tiger.  You can't blame it for doing what a tiger is supposed to do.

And one of them brought up a good point.  All the 'outrage'  you see from politicians and community leaders about these kinds of deaths (whether they are from escaped zoo animals or mountain lion or shark attacks) are really foolish.  He pointed out that something like 800 people in the US are killed every year by HORSES....  compare that to the 5 or 6 who die per year from 'wild animal' attacks.  :-/

RIP Tatiana