The Dhaliwal brothers of San Jose California will split $900K from the San Francisco Zoo and City of San Francisco after their friend was killed by a tiger at the SF Zoo. The brothers were accused of being drunk and taunting the tiger, causing it to escape its pen and attack and kill their friend. Tatiana the tiger was shot and killed by police. The Zoo hired an aggressive PR man who tried to turn the tables on the kids by making them the scapegoat. Now people are outraged that these "derelicts" are getting paid while a tiger was shot to death. The problem here is not whether these two boys were drunk or stoned or even whether they taunted the tiger. The point is, A TIGER ESCAPED FROM ITS ENCLOSURE. This is a 1,000-pound killing machine that brings down full-grown water buffalo in the wild. If it can escape because some kid insulted its mama, then something is wrong with the zoo's enclosure. Anyone who thinks these kids are to blame is not looking at the facts. They should, in fact, be outraged that they have been allowed to visit a zoo that had cages from which a major predator could escape from. It is a major tragedy that the tiger lost its life and that young man, but the true blame falls on an ineffective enclosure, not the drunken boys. If the enclosure had been effective we would still be able to go visit that beautiful cat Tatiana, but instead the zoo is trying to pin this whole thing on two dumb kids.

