December 28, 2007
Kid Died To Save His Friend From Tiger
From CNN:
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The last minutes of a 17-year-old boy's life were spent trying to save his friend from a brutal tiger mauling at the San Francisco Zoo, only to have the animal turn on him, police and family members said.
(Carlos Sousa, shown in an undated family photo, was trying to save a friend when he was mauled, sources say.)
Carlos Sousa Jr. and his friend's brother desperately tried to distract the 350-pound Siberian tiger, but the big cat instead came after Sousa.
"He didn't run. He tried to help his friend, and it was him who ended up getting it the worst," the teen's father, Carlos Sousa Sr., said Thursday after meeting with police.
The heroic portrait of Sousa and a timeline of the dramatic Christmas Day attack emerged as officials revealed that the tiger's escape from its enclosure may have been aided by walls that were well below the height recommended by the accrediting agency for the nation's zoos.
The rest of the story is here.
Weird story and tragic.
Posted by anthony at December 28, 2007 10:57 AM | TrackBackLow wall, tiger had already mauled one person. Can you say "lawsuit"? On the other hand, the beast may have been taunted....sad, sad, sad, and preventable, preventable, preventable...
Posted by: Robert Perry at December 28, 2007 04:29 PM