I want to mention this before it gets too far off the pages of our papers:
The two San Jose brothers mauled by a tiger on Christmas were released from a San Francisco hospital on Saturday, hospital officials said.
Paul Dhaliwal, 19, and Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, were escorted from a little-used side door on the north side of San Francisco General Hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman, and whisked away in a sedan without comment.
Their discharge came hours before a vigil for their friend Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was killed by the 300-pound Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo. After the incident, the two brothers were rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery for claw and bite wounds to their heads and upper bodies.
The release of the injured brothers came as zoo officials and federal inspectors were still trying to figure out how the tiger escaped from its outdoor grotto shortly after closing time on Christmas afternoon.
Most of you will know that the investigation revealed blood just inside the wall of the grotto, suggesting that someone… likely the kid who got killed, had his leg hanging over the edge of that wall. Of course we’ve also been hearing rather frantic calls to punish the zoo for not being to ‘standard’…
Well, look, let’s dare to apply a little bit of logic to the situation, shall we? They’ve not had an attack such as this in this zoo for years and years… and the wall in question has been around since the ’40’s. Sound like bad design, to you, or as with me, does it sound to you like a few kids showing off in front of each other?
