There are said to be about 5000 - 7500 tigers left in the world. Unfortunately, there are an endless number of stupid teenages in the world.

Hardly. However, stupid people tend to irritate me.

You strike me as judgmental and unable to read people.

Am I correct?

The lack of empathy for fellow human beings in the posting is disturbing.

Is waving a felonious act? Is yelling a felonious act? As I said, I can understand this behavior provoking an animal, but I cant see how it is taunting. . . . And the victim did not admit to taunting the tiger. . . . Do we not teach our children to wave? So why is it wrong to do it as an adult, or teen?

The lack of empathy for fellow human beings in the posting is disturbing.
I really hope this doesn't reflect a true belief.

As someone's stupidity level rises, my empathy level lessen, in this case into none at all.

I feel sorry for the Tiger in this case that is about it. And maybe for the parents for realizing what an idiot they raised. The kid did it to himself.

Two brothers injured in a Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo will not face charges, the lead investigator in the case told CNN Monday.

Tatiana, a 350-pound Siberian tiger, killed one young man and injured two others before being killed.

San Francisco Police Inspector Valerie Matthews said the investigation had found no evidence that Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal taunted a 350-pound tiger that apparently scaled a 12½ foot wall surrounding its enclosure.

Police: Tiger attack victim acknowledged drinking, some taunting

By Terence Chea
ASSOCIATED PRESS
11:07 a.m. January 18, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO – Police believe a fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo was in part prompted by the victims provoking the animal, according to court documents.

One of the three victims told the father of the teenager killed in the Christmas Day attack they had been drinking and were yelling and waving at the animal, according to a search warrant affidavit filed late Thursday.

Paul Dhaliwal, 19, insisted the three never threw anything into the tiger's pen to provoke the cat, the papers said.

Dhaliwal and his brother Kulbir, 24, were severely injured when the tiger crawled up the wall of its enclosure and mauled them. Their friend, 17-year-old Carlos Sousa, Jr., was killed.

Zoo officials have acknowledged the wall surrounding the tiger pen was four feet lower than recommended by the national zoo accrediting organization.

“As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have been taunted/agitated by its eventual victims,” wrote Inspector Valerie Matthews in the affidavit. Police believe that “this factor contributed to the tiger escaping from its enclosure and attacking its victims,” she wrote.

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 affidavit also cites multiple reports to police of people taunting animals at the zoo that day.

Mark Geragos, an attorney for the Dhaliwal brothers, did not immediately return calls for comment. He has repeatedly said they did not provoke the tiger.

Michael Cardoza, the attorney who represents the Sousa family, said Friday he had not seen the affidavit and would not comment on the allegations.

But, he said, even if the men had provoked the animal, smoked marijuana or drank alcohol, that would not justify the attack or lessen the zoo's liability.

“The zoo has the obligation to protect the public from the animals and to protect the animals from the public,” Cardoza said. “They did not live up to that obligation. They are strictly liable for not properly housing that tiger. It has to be foreseeable to them that people are going to do silly things at the zoo.”

Toxicology results for Paul Dhaliwal showed that his blood alcohol level was 0.16 – twice the legal limit for driving, according to the affidavit. His brother 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 the three had smoked pot and each had “a couple shots of vodka” before leaving San Jose for the zoo Dec. 25, 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 men's cell phones.

Zoo spokesman Sam Singer said he had not seen the documents but believed the victims did taunt the animal.

“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.”

The San Francisco Police Department released a statement Tuesday saying the investigation has been put on hold "pending new witnesses being interviewed and/or new evidence being produced."

In court documents filed earlier this month, police investigators said they believed the attack was in part triggered by the victims provoking the animal but did not specify what if any crimes they thought had been committed.

I'm not sure if you realize (or care) that you words say more about you than they ever would about the kid. He didn't taunt the tiger ( not even his cohorts are saying that he did)...and yet he was killed anyway.The incident is done and over with at this point. The fact that you still maintain this attitude is very sad.
Hopefully, if you die as result of doing something foolish or stupid, others will feel empathy for you.

One last thing, there is stupid and foolish and then there is deadly. At the very least, these three young men should have known the difference.

Let me ask you something, why do you expect me to care about someone who obviously did not care about their own life?

We live in a soceity where people take less and less accountability for their actions and frankly it makes me sick, it also shows me what a weak society we live in.

It also shows me how overindulged some teenagers are, they are not taught right from wrong nor are they shown any consequences when they do wrong.

I guess these three got a taste of jungle justice, wouldn't you say.

Which makes it an even sadder day for the Tiger world. How ever you look at this, the zoo, the (*(cough) victims) this was caused by human error and the one that dies of course is the beautiful tiger. Next people are going to start jumping into fires and blaming the matches.

To be clear, this incident was caused by human error and human error alone. The tiger, was being a tiger.

Since we are playing the what if game, let me throw this one out to you. Say the day's events unfolded exactly as they did, however, there had been a group of school children also in reach of the tiger or a mother and her baby. And then let's say that after mauling and killing the young men, the tiger attacked a child because it was still agitated by the young men and their shenanigans. You have to ask yourself, what if the three had just left the tiger alone? Would this have happened?

Does anyone know how long the tiger had been housed there without incident?

A lot of times people create their own circumstances and that is what the case is here.

Tell me, where was the good decision making in drinking, smoking pot and then taunting a deadly animal? What would you say if instead of taunting a tiger, these three decided to play with a loaded gun, who would you blame then? How can you say that any rational human being cannot see the potential catastrophic outcome from combining these actions?

No, I do not think people are perfect, nor are the expected to be. What saddens me is the three young men, drank, smoked pot, drove and then taunted a deadly animal.

This is the future of our country making these stupid, dangerous and deadly decisions. Where in their young lives did they learn decision making skills, or lack there of?

Further, it is now known that they also lied about how the events unfolded that day and admitted to their actions, which in some ways is positive, too bad their friend and the tiger had to die in order for them to admit their actions.

Lastly, in regard to the tiger, perhaps there shouldn't be zoos. Perhaps we should leave nature as it is and stop forcing our company on God's creatures, perhaps we should stop destoying their natural habitats so they are not forced to live in capitivity so the species does not become extinct because of human decision, stupid human decision.

Maybe, we should leave the tigers alone until we as humans can learn to respect and admire them without harming them.

The tiger was born on in Denver on June 27, 2003. It was transfer to the San Fran Zoo on December 16, 2005. On December 22, 2006 during a public feeding, Tatiana clawed and bit zookeeper Lori Komejan's arm which was placed or pulled between the cage bars. Komejan's right arm was severely injured as a result.and the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration later found the zoo at fault due to inadequate safety precautions and inadequate staff training, which the enclosure was closed for 10 months,with zero attempts made at upgrading the enclosure up to code.

I choose not to blame all irresponsible behavior done by young adults on their parents/caregivers but instead on many number of other factors.

animals in the wild are 100% infested with parasites and constantly face starvation and dehydration.