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http://www.newsweek.com/id/81961

A tiger escaped from its cage at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one visitor and injuring two others, a newspaper reported.

The tiger was shot and killed, San Francisco Fire Department spokesman Lt. Ken Smith told the San Francisco Chronicle. It was not immediately clear how the tiger escaped.

The attack happened in a cafe at the east end of the zoo shortly after the 5 p.m. closing time, the Chronicle reported. The tiger cages are near the center of the zoo.

The zoo was evacuated.

Police officers and firefighters are investigating. Police, fire and zoo officials could not immediately provide details on the attacks to The Associated Press.

Officials at first worried that four tigers had escaped, but only one got out of its pen, Smith said.
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>> Anonymous
Why did they kill the tiger?
>> KZN
>>194921
My thoughts exactly. Poor tiger. They could have just disabled it.
>> Anonymous
They meant to, but they shot it with a taser.
>> Anonymous
>>194936
Oh lol

>>194921
Because it killed someone. At that stage you don't wait for the guys with tranquilizer guns to show up
>> Anonymous
>>The attack happened in a cafe at the east end of the zoo shortly after the 5 p.m. closing time, the Chronicle reported.

Pretty good closing procedure. GET OUT, WE'RE LOOSING THE TIGERS.
>> Anonymous
>>194947
I wish we had tigers when I worked at concert halls..
>> Anonymous
supposedly this was the same tiger that tore a zookeeper's arm off last year?

because that's fucking awesome, too bad it got killed before it could escape into the forest never to be seen again
>> Anonymous
>>194966

The closest forest is like 100 miles away. He'd have to cross the golden gate bridge to escape... no chance.
>> Anonymous
>>194966
gb2 bed, Pi
>> Anonymous
>>194971

Obscure literary reference in MY /an/?
>> Anonymous
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They should have just released a male silverback to go tear the tiger's head off, amirite?
>> Anonymous
>>195004
Then they'd be stuck with a gorilla
>> Anonymous
>>195005

I'd rather be stuck with a gorilla than a retardedly hostile tiger. Just give it a banana and a tranquilizer.
>> Viewtiful Elvis Henshin
>>195005

But that's the beauty of it, the gorilla's all die out in winter.
>> Anonymous
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>>195005
That's the beauty of it. They freeze to death in the winter!
>> Viewtiful Elvis Henshin
>>195009

fuck
>> Anonymous
>>195009
>>195008
Same poster or hivemind?
>> Anonymous
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Meet Tatiana, the killer tiger.
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While authorities remain unsure of how the tiger escaped, it is clear that somehow the animal traveled over over a 20-foot wall and a 15-foot moat. Initially, authorities worried four of the zoo's five tigers had escaped. Later they learned Tatiana was the only one loose.
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When police arrived, they found Tatiana sitting beside one of the surviving victims near the zoo's cafe. When it moved toward officers, they opened fire and killed the tiger.

"As that tiger was attacking someone they shot that tiger to save that person's life," Smith said.
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The event marked the second time Tatiana had mauled someone. On Dec. 22, 2006, the tiger attacked a zoo keeper during a routine public feeding.

It reached through its cage, grabbed the zoo keeper and tore flesh off her arm. Later, a state agency faulted the zoo and ordered changes in the cage's construction, which had been made before the latest attack.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4051469&page=1
>> Anonymous
>The tiger was shot and killed

what the FUCK.
it's a shame it's going to take another thousand years of evolution before people stop treating animals like shit.
>> Anonymous
>>195051
facepalm.jpg
>> Anonymous
Now they're saying the guys were taunting the tiger. Wonder what they mean by taunting? If they were throwing rocks or some shit at it, and it crosses this moat and scales this wall to rape them.. lesson learned, eh?
>> Anonymous
>>195051

Whar were the officers supposed to do, dumbass? Let the tiger attack them too?
>> Anonymous
>>195051
Yeah. Lets wait for those tranquilizers to kick in WHILE IT EASTS 4 MORE PEOPLE.

Fuck off. If the damn thing was chewing on you, you wouldn't be so upset about shooting it.
>> Anonymous
Why did they kill the tiger?
>> Anonymous
>It reached through its cage, grabbed the zoo keeper and tore flesh off her arm.

That visual freaks me the fuck out. One second you are fine, the next you can see all the bones in your arm and ripped-away tendons. Like the scene from Cat People, only there the guy had his whole arm ripped off.
>> Anonymous
>>195051
1) It killed someone.
2) Tigers are dickholes. Yeah, they're beautiful. But they're TOTAL DICKHOLES.
>> Anonymous
>>195273

This is truth. Tigers are fucking assholes.
>> Anonymous
I don't know who I hate more, the retards who keep trying to climb over the walls protecting them from tigers, or the hippie faggots who cry animal abuse every time shit like this happens.
>> Anonymous
>>195271

I read that the person's arm fully recovered, so the mauling probably wasn't anything horrific, just some lacerations most likely.

Either way, don't stand so fucking close to cages with wild animals in them.
>> Anonymous
I hope this stops retards from going to zoos. I love everyone acts so shocked.

Well, we force a bunch of instinct-driven animals into tiny enclosures, and then let slack-jawed morons taunt them for 12 hours a day. But for some unknown reason, some of them get really pissed off!
>> Anonymous
It would be awesome if they fed the tiger remains to the polar bears.
>> Anonymous
>>195282

These slack-jawed morons might be the people who are genuinely interested in the animals. You know, the kind of people who might want to protect them.

Howerever, we should thank God for the fact that the world isn't full of "retards" and the tigers get shot, chopped up and sold in Chinese markets ;)
>> Anonymous
If my brother's cat were a tiger, humanity would be doomed.
>> Anonymous
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>>195278
>>195273
Counterpoint: www.qadesh.com
>> Anonymous
>>195397
oh wow.
one fucking exception.