Tiger, Tiger!
Imagine this: it’s Christmas day and you don’t really have anyone to spend it with so you decide to head on over to the zoo to hang out with your buddies and view some beautiful creatures straight out of Mother Nature. You think you’d be safe at a zoo, right? I mean, you would pretty much feel safe from the animals. Your only major worry would be if you bumped some little kid down and their mom decided to ream you out. But otherwise totally safe, right? WRONG. What if this happened to you…you’re strolling along when, out of no where, a tiger comes up and decides that it wants to claw your eyes out. Hmmm…sounds like fun to me!
Anyways, this is what happened to brothers Paul and Kulibar Dhaliwal and their friend Carlos Sousa Jr. Sources say the three were taunting the tiger. When the three decided to go look at another animal, somehow the tiger got out and began chasing them. Sousa distracted the tiger from his friends, but couldn’t escape the grasp of the tiger. Sadly, Sousa was killed in the attack. The brothers were injured and spent a few days in the hospital. They are now planning on suing the zoo for the attack.
Let’s think about this for a few seconds…first of all-how could a tiger possibly escape in a zoo??? I would sue the zoo too if I was them. Allow me to put myself in these brothers’ shoes. First of all, I just got all beat up from a tiger while I was at the zoo. I would understand if I was in Africa or somewhere like that on a safari, but no, I was at the zoo…where little kids hang out! Second of all, my best friend just got killed while trying to save my life. Where were the zoo workers? Why didn’t they try to save everyone who was there? Third of all, who cares if I was taunting the tiger? Ya, maybe I shouldn’t have done that, but the tiger shouldn’t have been able to get out and try to eat me!
Maybe the brothers had it coming…but probably not. The zoo should be sued not only for the tiger escaping, but also for the lack of help that it provided. The San Francisco Zoo should be served up a big heaping plate of justice, and pay those brothers back for their losses.
Questions:
1. What’s going to happen to the tiger?
2. Do you think it’s fair that the brothers are suing the zoo?
I feel really bad for these brothers, they must be going through a really bad time right now. Not only are they in the hospital recovering from being mauled, but their best friend was killed. It’s only right that the tiger was shot and killed by the police. The tiger should never have been able to escape from his surroundings in the zoo, that’s just not right. Zoo’s are supposed to be for fun family events, where you don’t have to be worried that at any moment you could possibly get killed just for being there. You can’t tell me that no one else has ever taunted an animal before. Kids do it all the time, it just happens. For a tiger to be able to escape and kill someone is absolutely horrible, and I hope that the zoo has to pay for this. You can’t put a price on someone’s life, we all know that, but maybe this will make them realize that these are wild animals they’re doing with, and accidents like this happen. Security has to be updated, and nothing like this should ever happen again.
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago