The San Francisco Zoo, or rather the Director, the Board of Directors, and all the Socialite [Straight and Gay] Fund Raisers in the City of San Francisco bear some responsibility for the escape of Tatiana, the tigress, on Christmas Day, 2007. They are also colossally reckless by not having the zoo grounds and enclosures wired for video. Makes you wonder, ”What were they thinking?”
Maybe that is the point, the Powers That Be in the S.F. Zoo [pardon the expression] food chain, have been so monumentally myopic, they failed to envision circumstances in which video surveillance of the zoo enclosures just might be handy. Say... like in Dallas, TX when a gorilla escaped from his enclosure, grabbed a BABY, and had to be neutralized, permanently, by a Dallas SWAT sniper. [whom I just happen to know, eat your hearts out!]
If TPTB had raised the money for and installed video surveillance, then someone would have seen Idiot Brother #1 scaling the fence and a Zoo employee could have been dispatched to deal with the situation before it escalated to it's inevitable conclusion.
Had the City's doyennes and Junior Leaguers cared more about the animals for whom they were supposed to be raising money and less about who would wear what to which ball [Hell, if they had all worn last year's gowns and donated the cost of new gowns to the Zoo Foundation] perhaps this magnificent animal would have had an enclosure that was closer to her natural habitat than a rectangular enclosure, furnished with fake rocks, designed to give visitors a maximum view of her. She was forced to be on display a certain number of hours per day. There was no place for her to lie in the shade, there was no place for her to stalk, there was no place to PLAY! She was a Flippin' CAT!!! Doesn't matter that she weighed 350 pounds. She wanted to stalk something. She wanted to climb. She wanted to PLAY, dammit.
But NOOOOOOO! She got to pace. Back and forth, up and down. Thinking, measuring, calculating, day after day, that's what that kitty did. Finally, Christmas day...PREY!
“OH, Thank you Santa CAT, ThankYouTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!”
She leapt, she pounced. Bye-Bye, Idiot Brother #1. What does she see after she's broken live action toy #1? Why, it's TWO Running toys!
“Oh, JOY! Santa Cat truly loves ME!”
I can just imagine her thinkin' that, can't y'all?
After all those years, born in captivity, raised in captivity, spent her entire life in a CAGE, she was FREE! Those predator instincts were just below the surface...she was just biding her time.
The Zoo's officials were woefully neglectful in their shortsightedness. Some more modern approaches to habitat and handling might have saved Tatiania's life. Shoot, more attention to SECURITY would have saved her life. Indict the survivors of her attack for animal cruelty, something along the lines of endangering the life of an exotic animal, for they are directly responsible for the police having to shoot her. But let's look at some sanctions for the Zoo's power structure for their antiquated housing and care. In a city that can provide health care to every citizen, legal and illegal, how about a few dollars so that it's caged animals can live in humane conditions?
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Friday, December 28, 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
The San Francisco Tiger Tragedy
[I haven't read any other blogs on this topic at the time I'm drafting this rant. If any of my blogger friends, has a different opinion, I respectfully disagree. I know that we both have enough tolerance to allow each other that room. Also, although I'm drafting this on Thursday...my ISP is being contrary, so I may not get it posted until Friday. Sorry for the delayed gratification.]
I expect to read many mis-statements on blogs, as well as in the MSM, in the coming days about the reasons those IDIOT Brothers in San Francisco were trying to climb into the tiger, Tatiana's enclosure. I expect mis-statements from MSM sources. They are pandering to the masses for ratings. Those whores will keep their reports politically correct, laden with pathos, and plucking at the heartstrings of susceptible family members everywhere.
I expect better from bloggers. We are independent. We have no sponsors to whom we must answer. We're not accountable to a Board of Directors should our readership “numbers” fall or we receive a few outraged comments because we hold foolish individuals responsible for ill-advised behavior.
That's exactly what these brothers were: Foolish. They were most definitely not tragic and they certainly weren't MACHO! The Dearly Beloved will go into a much more detailed description of machismo, so I'll merely paraphrase the late, truly great Col. Jeff Cooper by saying that true machismo “is not hairy-chested-ball-scratching,” or words to that effect.
It takes a very special kind of hubris to think that you will escape unscathed if you attempt to climb into an enclosure with a 4-year-old, 350 pound Tigress! We know that's what Idiot Brother #1 was trying to do because he left his shoe [and blood] on the wrong side of the gate leading into the enclosure.
I don't think he would have thrown his shoe at Tatiana if she had already managed to leap that close to an escape. A shoe is not an effective weapon against 350 pounds of predatory muscle, teeth and claws. Besides, if she had already made her leap, he'd have needed the time it takes to remove and throw the shoe to start running away. Also, in order to effectively run away, he'd need either both shoes or no shoes.
No, I think, and I'm making this prediction before Idiot Brothers #2 and 3 have made any public statements, that it's much more likely that Idiot Brother #1 was KNOCKED out of that shoe by the impact of Tatiana's body as she pounced upon him!
You have noticed by now that I have not used the names of these young men. I mean no disrespect to their unnamed, grieving family, they have my sympathy. [unless and until they try to sue the Zoo for the death of their son through his own actions, then all bets are off!] That is not an oversight on my part. It is deliberate. They forfeited the right to be treated with a scintilla of respect the moment they executed this ill-conceived, imprudent, Icarian plan. The tragedy is not that one of them was killed and the other two sustained injuries, that was the inevitable consequence of such idiocy. The lamentable result of their action was the destruction of a magnificently exquisite beast following her God-given instincts!
Tomorrow, I take on the San Francisco Zoo. Those morons!
I expect to read many mis-statements on blogs, as well as in the MSM, in the coming days about the reasons those IDIOT Brothers in San Francisco were trying to climb into the tiger, Tatiana's enclosure. I expect mis-statements from MSM sources. They are pandering to the masses for ratings. Those whores will keep their reports politically correct, laden with pathos, and plucking at the heartstrings of susceptible family members everywhere.
I expect better from bloggers. We are independent. We have no sponsors to whom we must answer. We're not accountable to a Board of Directors should our readership “numbers” fall or we receive a few outraged comments because we hold foolish individuals responsible for ill-advised behavior.
That's exactly what these brothers were: Foolish. They were most definitely not tragic and they certainly weren't MACHO! The Dearly Beloved will go into a much more detailed description of machismo, so I'll merely paraphrase the late, truly great Col. Jeff Cooper by saying that true machismo “is not hairy-chested-ball-scratching,” or words to that effect.
It takes a very special kind of hubris to think that you will escape unscathed if you attempt to climb into an enclosure with a 4-year-old, 350 pound Tigress! We know that's what Idiot Brother #1 was trying to do because he left his shoe [and blood] on the wrong side of the gate leading into the enclosure.
I don't think he would have thrown his shoe at Tatiana if she had already managed to leap that close to an escape. A shoe is not an effective weapon against 350 pounds of predatory muscle, teeth and claws. Besides, if she had already made her leap, he'd have needed the time it takes to remove and throw the shoe to start running away. Also, in order to effectively run away, he'd need either both shoes or no shoes.
No, I think, and I'm making this prediction before Idiot Brothers #2 and 3 have made any public statements, that it's much more likely that Idiot Brother #1 was KNOCKED out of that shoe by the impact of Tatiana's body as she pounced upon him!
You have noticed by now that I have not used the names of these young men. I mean no disrespect to their unnamed, grieving family, they have my sympathy. [unless and until they try to sue the Zoo for the death of their son through his own actions, then all bets are off!] That is not an oversight on my part. It is deliberate. They forfeited the right to be treated with a scintilla of respect the moment they executed this ill-conceived, imprudent, Icarian plan. The tragedy is not that one of them was killed and the other two sustained injuries, that was the inevitable consequence of such idiocy. The lamentable result of their action was the destruction of a magnificently exquisite beast following her God-given instincts!
Tomorrow, I take on the San Francisco Zoo. Those morons!
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