Friday January 18, 2008, 9:41 am
I want to smack that smirk off his face! This person has no regard for animals or people, for that matter. There's also a poll on the news page.

Friday January 18, 2008, 9:58 am
Agree Marcy, I am not surprised that they taunted Tatiana.

Friday January 18, 2008, 10:03 am
Hehehehehe that is too cool marcy...Yes I would love to do the same....Guess the tiger tried but died in process...Noted...

Friday January 18, 2008, 10:04 am
These guys had nothing better to do on Christmas than get loaded and go the zoo and tease the prisoners? Now two lives are lost and these 2 morons and the lawyers will be rewarded. Sad, truly, sad.......

Friday January 18, 2008, 10:08 am
Think this says much about their parents!!!!!!!!

Plant life......Plant trees.......

Friday January 18, 2008, 11:10 am
Yeah it will be all about the almighy dollar bill now...Pretty sickining they are going to collect from killing a tiger...for they wrote her death wish when they taunted her....

Friday January 18, 2008, 3:23 pm

Tattiana should receive the Medal of Honor, having perished in combat with antisocial, vodka-swilling pests that had infested their own society.

Friday January 18, 2008, 3:28 pm

Sign petition, Close the San Francisco Tiger Exhibit at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/savethesanfrantigers.

Saturday January 19, 2008, 7:28 pm

An ill-treated captive animal, confined to a tiny, restrictive environment, barred from contact with other individuals of her species, plagued by taunting, harassment, and abuse, is no prospect for propagating the species, and serves only to prop up the institution that sells its popcorn and admission upon her weary back.

The contribution of the average municipal zoological park toward species conservation is highly debatable.

Saturday January 19, 2008, 9:18 pm
Noted

Saturday January 19, 2008, 9:26 pm
Nited thanks

Saturday January 19, 2008, 9:28 pm
Why don't parents teach their kids to respect animals - all animals - not to yell, torment, or scream at them. How junvenile, cruel and humiliating. No wonder the tiiger tried to eat him. I would too! These itdiots were never taught even basic human values, decency and respect for others, including other humans and animals. There is no excuse for their behaivor. It's not the tiger who is responsible for her behavior - it's the supposed more intelligent human who acted like a fool. Noted.

Saturday January 19, 2008, 9:34 pm
Animals should be free!!! Not in a zoo!!

Saturday January 19, 2008, 9:39 pm
Punks....Reputable lawyer they've got , as well, eh ? Defended Scott Peterson . There's a shocker . As for the security at the zoo itself....why would they let a bunch of drunken potheads into a park full of wild animals in the first place , I'd like to know ? That zoo has a lot to answer for, methinks. R.I.P , Tatiana .

Saturday January 19, 2008, 9:41 pm
" An ill-treated captive animal, confined to a tiny, restrictive environment, barred from contact with other individuals of her species, plagued by taunting, harassment, and abuse, is no prospect for propagating the species, and serves only to prop up the institution that sells its popcorn and admission upon her weary back.

The contribution of the average municipal zoological park toward species conservation is highly debatable. "

Well said, Dave .Very well said .

Saturday January 19, 2008, 9:46 pm
Rest in peace Tatiana, I knew there was more to this story. I say charge them but I'm sure if they have Mark Geragos defending them that all they are thinking about at this point is money. Blood money in my opinion.
RIP Tatiana~

Lisa

Saturday January 19, 2008, 9:51 pm
I always believe there is a reason why animals attack/defend, rarely is it a unprovoked action. It's sad that these animals are destroyed for reacting. At least now Tatiana's reputation is put to rest, too bad she had to be put to rest as well.

Saturday January 19, 2008, 9:57 pm
Noted & signed.

Saturday January 19, 2008, 10:04 pm
Tatiana paid the ultimate price for human stupidity. I knew there was more to this story.

Saturday January 19, 2008, 10:06 pm
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The mere fact animals are kept captive at all is the greater crime, I'm sad to say. It facilitates the attitude of human domination which, tragically, most people possess.

BUT, it could all change with the stroke of a pen as more of us get the word out to politicians worried for their election or re-election!

It's also sad to think we've actually evolved (or devolved) to the point where we've lost so much respect for Nature and Animals that we need to legislate their freedom from our exploitation!
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Saturday January 19, 2008, 10:19 pm
Noted thank you, RIP Tatiana.

Saturday January 19, 2008, 10:22 pm
Thank you, Mike, for signing "Close the San Francisco Tiger Exhibit" thnx Dave...noted and signed

Saturday January 19, 2008, 10:29 pm
Let's hope this will get the zoo closed for good!!!!!

Saturday January 19, 2008, 10:29 pm
Let's hope this will get the zoo closed for good!!!!!

Saturday January 19, 2008, 10:37 pm
Noted, Sadly. Animals in Captivity? All Of LIFE Is SACRED...

Saturday January 19, 2008, 10:38 pm
Folks this is really sad and not at all warranted. For Tatania to give up her life just because the guys wanted to taunt her was not right or fair. It's cruelty personified I say! However, we cannot be judgmental, but we know that "what we sow so we shall reap" - so that's it I guess! Thanks Marcy for sharing this info with us. Noted!

Saturday January 19, 2008, 11:35 pm
Very sadly noted.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 12:44 am
I have been going to this zoo for years, & in all that time I never say anything like that, & I never feared for my safety. Animals don't need to in cages, people like them belong in cages!

Sunday January 20, 2008, 1:05 am
Although it is WRONG what the boys did, and it is CRUEL that they took Tatiana down (and very sad), it remains to be the ZOO'S fault for the death of both human and animal. There is no excuse for this park not being safe, and I truly would not be going through it until they made it so.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 1:29 am
Noted with sadness

Sunday January 20, 2008, 3:10 am
Noted !! Thank-You !!!

Sunday January 20, 2008, 3:22 am
It's cruel to enclose any wild animal and use them as a spectacle for human entertainment, they should be allowed to live free in their natural environment, you get the idiots who taunt such beautiful animals and provoke an already tormented soul, the blame lies on the shoulders of man for all the tragic loss of life involved in this preventable incident. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO SHUT SAN FRANCISCO TGER EXHIBIT DOWN - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/494865150 - the tiger is one of the most threatened species on Earth. It is estimated that as few as 5,000 - 7,000 tigers remain in the wild. Of the nine subspecies of modern tiger, three are extinct and the remaining are classified as endangered, some critically so. Worldwide funds that are wasted on keeping these animals confined in cages should go towards halting habitat loss, fragmentation and hunting, poaching for skins and body parts have greatly reduced tiger populations in the wild, it's unacceptable that they should be made to suffer the brutal consequences of such intrusive human interference.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 3:58 am
Noted with thanks Marcy
They should have worded it the boys and their parents.
Smoking marijuana at their home and the parents can't smell that?
These so called children have drugs. Alcohol and devices to beat a drug test and we are to believe them?
I'll take common sense thank you. No animal goes to that extreme unless they are extremely irritated.
And I can't sign that petition because it's wording makes it seem like it was the tigers fault and I disagree with that.
Just my opinion

Sunday January 20, 2008, 4:10 am
" . . . the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger's exhibit."

standing atop the railing of the tiger's exhibit ????

GUILTY!!!!

Sunday January 20, 2008, 5:03 am
noted and signed. makes me so sad that tatiana lossed her life due to ppls's cruelty....once again.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 5:04 am
noted and signed. makes me so sad that tatiana lossed her life due to ppls's cruelty....once again.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 6:07 am
Noted earlier and already signed. Voted on the poll. Blaming the brothers is ahead at 82%. Thanks Marcy.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 6:17 am
I heard about this on my local news channel. Thanks Bette

Sunday January 20, 2008, 6:21 am
These drunken potheads took the life of this Tiger. Interestingly enough she did not go after others that were still at the zoo. She knew exactly which ones tormented her.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 6:57 am
I NEVER doubted that ther was more to this story. Unfortunately, Tatiana suffered the ultimate punishment. At least now she is free.
Sadly noted.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 6:59 am
Noted and signed, thanks Dave, this is so upsetting.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 7:20 am
I'm with you Marcy I would love to slap that evil smile off his face, this beautiful Tiger life is gone and now he is going to sue!!! Hoe dare him!!!! He should be facing prison time if you ask me instead of acting like a victum, they were all drunk and high and teasing her, so the way I look at it is they got what they had comming to them. She took all she could take. You take a human and keep pushing them in a corner and after a while see what happens they come out swinging this is what she done, but she lost her life because of these punks. To say she is free she is not she is dead!!! and she should still be alive today and would be if it weren't for these drunken punks. Thank you Bette. noted

Sunday January 20, 2008, 7:39 am
I agree with the sentiments of many, these imbecils should be charged and jailed, not compensated for their crimes against poor Tatiana (and others, I'm sure).

Sunday January 20, 2008, 7:45 am
i, like many of you here knew there was more to this story when i first heard it... poor tatiana... someone said something about why don't people teach their children to respect animals... why don't they teach them respect PERIOD... it is sadly lacking nowaday... very sadly noted...:(

Sunday January 20, 2008, 8:09 am
noted and signed, this is so sad.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 8:43 am
Very sad to think they will profit from this type of behavior. I think they should be charged with animal cruelty.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 9:09 am
I don't think the complete truth has come out. The one who told the father of the killed young man they did no more than wave and yell at the tiger was very drunk. His ability to remember his behavior is amazing and doubtful and self-serving. Their mother defended them saying they were just normal kids "having fun." "Dhaliwal's blood alcohol level had been measured after the attack at 0.16 percent, twice the legal level for drunkenness." There was a tree branch and pine cone found in the mote. Ever play with a cat with a tree branch? I think they were trying to get the tiger to leap after the branch to get a good picture and probably dangling their legs over the railing as bait. When they turned their cell phones over under court order a week later any incriminating photos had been erased. I wonder if they transferred any of their special Tarzan photos to their computer to print out?

Sunday January 20, 2008, 9:38 am
This whole incident makes me sick. I think the two brothers should be prosecuted for the death of their friend. And they should be prosecuted for the death of the tiger also. What were 2 underaged people doing drinking anyway? The fact that they hired a high profile attorney makes me furious. Hopefully, Mr Garegos will withdraw from the case. The zoo may have been, in part, responsible for not having a high enough enclosure around the tigers but for these two brothers to be able to profit from this horrible incident is another example of how frivilous lawsuits are costing taxpayers more money than they ought to. I hope they throw this case right out of court or charge the brothers as accesories in their friend's death. Ther, infortunately, will probably be no justice for poor Tatiana, who didn't need to die this awful way.....

Sunday January 20, 2008, 9:50 am
Noted and signed...Thanks Dave. This is so sad, the needless death of Tatiana. Rest in peace.
The brothers should be severly punished.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 9:54 am
This lawsuit was thought up by someone else, not these idiotic menchild. The boys family or this Garegos apprached them to cover every angle of what supposedly happened.

If I were the judge the sentence would be to put these two in a zoo and allow the public to tease them for about six months!!!!!!!!!

The world is full of these functionally illiterates and their parents are to blame for their behavior......From the article I read the parents had no control over what they eventually did or any of the other predicaments with the law they got into. Evidently these so called parents could have used parenting classes to learn how to control these lying rats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they lie because their parents taught them how!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLANT LIFE..........PLANT TREES...........FOR LIFE........................

Sunday January 20, 2008, 10:06 am
Petition signed. I never doubted that the tiger had been tormented by those kids!

Sunday January 20, 2008, 10:23 am
Unfortunately, when you have criminals running your country, as leaders of the free world, an example, a horrific example, of CRIMINAL, sociopathic behavior is the matrix set in place. And if you haven't done your WORK, like clearly neither of these "children" or their "parents" did, you have A CRIMINAL EVENT, which ultimately is life-destroying and filled with death, as this was.

What we need in this country is a full sweep of all SATANIC beings, that converts them back into the DIVINE CHILDREN THEY TRULY ARE, or we as a world will continue to suffer the pains of this majestic transition. FASTER, FASTER, FASTER evolution for us all! Goddess bless.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 10:29 am
Poor Tatiana and all animals who are used so cruelly by greedy, selfish humans. This beautiful tiger innocent of any wrong doing was placed in prison (while true criminals roam free) and was allowed to be tormented beyond endurance. All she wanted from the time she was a cub was to live her life as she was meant to live .... free.
No more cages or cruel humans to torment you sweet girl.....you are finally free!!!!
Noted with thanks, Marcy.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 11:27 am
Noted with much sadness that there are people like this guy in the world...I pray with all my heart that Tatiana is free and happy now that she's in a better place...As for the jerk that got attacked,all I can say is what goes around comes around and in the end he will pay the price for his actions!!!!

Sunday January 20, 2008, 11:47 am
I say this will not be the last time these idiots will be in the news.........They will commit another crime of sorts down the road........The script for how the handle life has already be given to them by their heritage & parents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLANT LIFE FOR LIFE........PLANT TREES...................

Sunday January 20, 2008, 1:25 pm
Bette, you're so right. These idiots will continue to screw up. What makes me so angry is that this beautiful tiger is dead due to these a**h*l*s. And Mark Geragos, that proves their guilt right there! I'm not against defense attorneys altogether, just him!

Sunday January 20, 2008, 1:39 pm
It makes me sick that animals always have to pay the price when people act heartlessly toward them.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 2:05 pm
Noted. No question, these boys provoked Tatiana. I pray that they learn from this terrible tragedy.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 2:05 pm
Noted. No question, these boys provoked Tatiana. I pray that they learn from this terrible tragedy.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 3:31 pm
I agree with the first comment. I'd love to smack that fool upside the head, too!

Sunday January 20, 2008, 3:40 pm
At least Tatiana got to wipe that smirk off that punk's face, and put him on the Darwin Awards list for '08. It is, however, a Pyhrric victory. Perhaps going through the 'hood with a Norplant sterilization gun and an itchy trigger finger would honor her more? We could call it "Project Tatiana"...

Sunday January 20, 2008, 3:54 pm
On one hand we have the questionable morality of keeping wild animals in cages...I know I know their habitat is being destroyed...AND on the other hand we have a group or idiots who get their jollies from teasing caged wild animals. And they still think they did nothing wrong...can we have them banned from having anything further to do withanimals...including a ban of zoo visits and pet ownership. Least that sort of ABSO will keep them away from being beastly to animals.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 4:52 pm
Thanks fot that dave.Pity the tiger didn't take them out for what they done.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 5:45 pm
Very sad that Tatiana had to die. "Chains and cages not only imprison the body of an animal, they also torture their spirit. "suz hart Thanks for keeping me informed.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 5:57 pm
Noted....because of 3 idiots drunk on vodka and high on weed a beautiful tiger had to be destroyed!!!!!!!!!

Sunday January 20, 2008, 7:14 pm
I agree with Ramona G.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 8:25 pm
There are all these programs that are suppose to stop bullying, the one thing that isn't being taught by all is respect! If these little jerks had respect for themselves and Tatiana then none of this would have happened.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 10:12 pm
Noted. Sometimes parents, schools, churches have all tried very hard to properly socialize and sensitize their childen--here is yet another example where it just didn't take, especially under peer pressure. I have never enjoyed zoos...I could tolerate it somewhat better when the better ones replaced cages with simulations of the animals' environments. But they are still captive...they are still barred from their freedom...and confined in relatively small spaces. They got a decorating makeover...that's all. I believe I have signed this petition already, but will backtrack to check. The zoo is going to lose on the matter of foreseeability because it was pointed out to them some times back on inspections and they had a standard of care and responsibility when the public was paying to come in and see these exhibited animals. They did not meet it. But I hope the judge will order them to community service cleaning up at the zoo, dog parks....I think you see where I am going with this! Thank you for bringing the story, Dave. Petition signed.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 10:14 pm
Sorry. Should have thank Dave for his remarks and Marcy for the story. It's midnight where I am--my head must have turned into a pumpkin on that last post.

Sunday January 20, 2008, 11:28 pm
Thanks Marcy, I signed the petition and plan to take the poll too. The stress that these beautiful animals suffer in captivity is not right and the only solution to this problem is that they need to be free to live and roam in their own environment. I see this problem everywhere and whether people like it or not it is the fault of Humans. We have encroached on their habitats in a astronomical rate that the animals don't have any room left to survive in the wild anymore. People need to control their numbers before all the wild animals are eradicated by our selfishness.

Monday January 21, 2008, 1:56 am
This is another huge problem with zoos- the animals are annoyed, taunted and frightened by what is probably a minority of visitors but it's still too many.

Monday January 21, 2008, 4:23 am
Animals kept captive is a crime. They lack the conditions to devellop in a good natured way. A tiger who wouldn't feel threatened would not attack those guys.
Yet, they insisted on behaving dangerously. Waving arms, yelling, throwing things, making noise by a imprisonned tiger are very dangerous actions.
It's always very sad the meaningless loss of a life, and here it happened twice. A human and a tiger.

Monday January 21, 2008, 9:00 am
Signed and noted!

Monday January 21, 2008, 9:03 am
Noted and signed!

Monday January 21, 2008, 1:27 pm
Carlos Sousa Jr. did not deserve to die; but neither did Tatiana. I hope now Paul and Kuliber Dhaliwal realize that its their fault their friend is dead; and the tiger too.

Monday January 21, 2008, 1:33 pm
Carlos Sousa Jr. and Tatiana did not, in any way, deserve to die. I hope that Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal realize that its pretty much their fault their friend is dead, and Tatiana too.

Monday January 21, 2008, 2:05 pm
Because of of their taunting a young boy's life is over & a beautiful animal is gone...why do these teenagers think there are no consequences for their actions...parents need to teach their children that everything they do has consequences...some worse than others...the one that they are showing doesn't seem like he regrets what he has done...hope they throw the book at him...noted...thanks for posting...

Monday January 21, 2008, 2:05 pm
Because of of their taunting a young boy's life is over & a beautiful animal is gone...why do these teenagers think there are no consequences for their actions...parents need to teach their children that everything they do has consequences...some worse than others...the one that they are showing doesn't seem like he regrets what he has done...hope they throw the book at him...noted...thanks for posting...

Monday January 21, 2008, 4:22 pm
I volunteer at the Indianapolis Zoo and I can't tell you how many times I have had to ask parents to get their kids to stop tormenting the poor animals. I know that most animals are happy, but I wouldn't want someone to start growling or making roaring sounds at me like I'm something to be made fun of. I have yelled at groups if kids for making roaring sounds at the lions. Everyone thinks its funny to make sounds like "Mufasa". It annoys the hell out of me and the parents look at you and ask why it wrong!

Tuesday January 22, 2008, 2:16 am
noted

Tuesday January 22, 2008, 5:22 am
This just infuriates me! Those boys should be held accountable for what they did. I knew when I heard about this that they had to have done something to provoke her. And because of their total disregard for animal life, she died. What an injustice. I, honestly, could care less about the boys. As far as I'm concerned, you reap what you sow and they got what they deserved. I hope that any jury/judge will see this for what it is and give them NOTHING! RIP Tatiana....you were true beauty

Tuesday January 22, 2008, 5:38 am
I can not understand why a tranquilizer gun was not used instead of a bullet?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the two kids left they should be deported back where there families came from..................

All three of these nitwits know/knew right from wrong and all involved have abused the freedom their families came here for.

PLANT LIFE......PLANT TREES.........

Tuesday January 22, 2008, 8:12 am
Yet another moron, using poor judgment, resulting in an innocent animal being killed. Some people are simply too damn dumb to be allowed air space at times! I think he should be fined!

Tuesday January 22, 2008, 8:22 am
Just a fine for the life of an endangered species !!!!!!!!! If these idiots were just given a fine they would think in their infantile brains they beat the system and off they go to commit something far more serious than this. Men/boys of this caliber and come from families as this can not think any other way unless they are literally re-programmed.............Away from the method their parents raised them.

Perhaps it is wishful thinking but Siberia sounds like a great place to banish them to..........Think about that for awhile..........What animal lives in that area???????

PLANT LIFE......PLANT TREES.....FOR THE ANIMALS..........

Tuesday January 22, 2008, 4:12 pm
Noted

Sunday January 27, 2008, 3:57 pm
Noted.
Too bad beautiful Tatiana had to die for these 3 idiots sins.

Saturday August 16, 2008, 2:43 pm
Zoos do have a place in the world. They have bred and increased the population of MANY endangered animals. Where is the personal responsibility of people nowdays? I think they threw rocks at it or definitely more than they say. It never came close to attackig before. They should not profit and they should be punished. Maybe a lawsuit was what they had in mind in the first place and it went wrong. There are some immigrants who come here and just want to screw up our society out of hate. Maybe people need to be checked out and on probabtion for 10 years, after they immigrate here.

Saturday August 16, 2008, 5:58 pm
Mora......I agree they did more than they admitted to!

And far too many come here to screw us as well as use their ethnicity or race as grounds for getting out of it!!!! Since we've had the Mexican invasion 48,000 Americans have been murdered by them. So, what would stop a couple of brainless unthinking idiots from doing what these so called people did! These people should spend more than a few years in prison for causing the death of such a beautiful creature. Afterall there are millions of these kind of people but very few tigers left in comparison!!!!

If not now,
When?????????

PLANT TREES FOR LIFE...............