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三番动物园, 老虎咬死人。。。

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(12-26) 16:51 PST SAN FRANCISCO - -- Police are treating the San Francisco Zoo as a crime scene today, one day after a 350-pound tiger escaped and attacked three San Jose boys, killing a 17-year-old before hunting down and seriously injuring two of his friends.

Carlos Sousa Jr. was killed Christmas evening outside the tiger grotto, which is protected by a 20- to 25-foot-wide moat and 14-foot-high wall. Tatiana, a 350-pound Siberian tiger that also attacked a zookeeper almost exactly a year ago, was shot by police as it mauled one of the survivors 300 yards away from the grotto.

Zoo officials are still unsure how the tiger escaped the enclosure. Authorities believe it initially attacked all three victims, killing Sousa. Officials believe the cat then followed blood trails to Terrace Cafe, where it cornered the other boys, brothers ages 19 and 23.

San Francisco police Lt. Leroy Lindo said police currently have no reason to believe the three men taunted the tiger prior to the attack, which happened shortly after the zoo's 5 p.m. closing time. Dozens of visitors and some employees were still inside the zoo at the time.

Authorities were called to the scene after receiving a call that said an unspecified animal may be loose in the zoo and that a visitor had been bitten.

When police arrived, they first found Sousa, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The officers began a search and found the 23-year-old victim lying on the ground with cuts on his face. He was cornered by the tiger. As the officers approached, police said, the tiger jumped back on top of the man and resumed its attack. The animal then became distracted by the four officers, who were yelling, and advanced toward the officers. All four fired their .40-caliber handguns, hitting the tiger an unknown number of times.

San Francisco Police Sgt. Neville Gittens said the officers did not want to shoot the animal while it was sitting next to the victim.

"I can only imagine the patrons walking around, and suddenly seeing this tiger," he said. "It was probably surreal."

The officers then found the third victim, the 19-year-old man, near his brother.

The brothers were in stable condition today after surgeries at San Francisco General Hospital.

John Sousa said he learned of his nephew's death this morning.

"This is very rough, very hard on us. There's nothing much we can do. This will be investigated, it's going to take some time," he said. "He was a great kid, he took off on Christmas with friends, we're not sure what happened."

San Francisco Zoo Director Manuel Mollinedo said the zoo has a response team that is armed with tranquilizers and firearms, but that the scene unfolded "so quickly that the officers found (Tatiana) first."

The zoo does not have video surveillance, police said, so the investigation will be based on physical evidence collected at the zoo, witness statements, the autopsy of the dead man and the necropsy of the tiger.

Police officers, along with fire department and zoo personnel, conducted four searches of the zoo grounds between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to ensure no other people had been attacked, Gittens said. Authorities used a California Highway Patrol helicopter with thermal imaging and floodlights to comb the zoo for additional victims or escaped animals when it was still dark, he said.

At one point, police said, zoo officials feared that the four other tigers that belong to the zoo were on the loose. Authorities said one zookeeper wanted to go into the large cat grotto to account for the remaining animals, and police had to physically restrain him.

Rochelle Dicker, an emergency room surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital who operated on the victims, said today that the two unnamed brothers were recovering remarkably well. Doctors are focusing on preventing infection from the bacteria that may be present in the men's wounds, she said. That bacteria is similar to the type found in the common house cat, officials said.

Dicker said the men were in critical condition when they arrived at the hospital Tuesday but that emergency crews had managed to stabilize the victims and clean their wounds. Both men underwent multiple surgeries with several different teams of doctors through the night, she said. The surgeries mostly consisted of cleaning the wounds more thoroughly and stitching the gashes, Dicker said.

Doctors will keep the men at the hospital today to monitor them, she said. Dicker attributed their recovery to the fact that both are young and in good health.

The zoo, which is closed today for the first time in years, was eerily quiet this morning. The cafe where the attack victims were found is shuttered and still. A dozen police officers gathered with zoo officials just west of the cafe earlier this morning, poring over maps and handing out equipment. This afternoon, a handful of visitors continued to filter up tot the entrance, unaware of what had happened.

"Oh my gosh! I hadn't heard anything about a tiger," said one visitor, Komer Poodari, of San Jose. "I guess we'll go to Fisherman's Wharf."

Mollinedo said that officials hope to reopen the zoo Thursday, but plan on keeping the outdoor big cat exhibit closed indefinitely. Police are treating the area as a crime scene, collecting physical evidence and taking statements from any witnesses, Police Chief Heather Fong said.

Lora LaMarca, a zoo spokeswoman, said this morning that officials still have no idea how the animal escaped from its grotto. Police refused to rule out the possibility of carelessness or criminal activity, and zoo officials said the tiger did not escape through the grotto's only door.

"We don't know at this point if somebody let the tiger out or it climbed out," Gittens said, adding that if someone did let the animal out it would be considered a crime.

The zoo held a staff meeting this morning, LaMarca said, and authorities there are offering grief counselors to its employees.

"The zoo offers its sincerest sympathies to the people affected," she said.

This is the second time in just over a year that Tatiana attacked a human.

On Dec. 22, 2006, the tiger chewed the flesh off zookeeper Lori Komejan's arm after a public feeding demonstration. A state investigation later ruled that the zoo was at fault for the attack because of the way the cages were configured.

A June report from the state Division of Occupation Safety and Health blamed the San Francisco Zoo for the 2006 attack, stating that the tiger cages were configured in a way that made it possible for Tatiana to bite the zookeeper's arm. The state found that Komejan was attacked after she reached through a drain trough to retrieve an item near the tiger's side of the cage. The tiger reached under the cage bars and grabbed her right arm, but the zookeeper tried to push the tiger away using her other arm, the report found.

Both of her arms were under the cage at that point and her face was pressed against the cage bars, according to the report. Another employee grabbed a long-handled squeegee and hit the tiger in the head until it released the injured zookeeper.

"There was never any consideration for putting her down - the tiger was acting like a normal tiger," Mollinedo said today.

The public feedings at the Lion House resumed in September after about $250,000 in safety upgrades. The city, which helps fund the zoo, is currently facing a lawsuit from Komejan and is assessing today whether it is at all liable for the Christmas Day mauling, officials said.

Mayor Gavin Newsom is in Hawaii for a Christmas vacation; Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, the acting mayor, has not commented publicly.

Mollinedo said today that he has brought in colleagues from other accredited zoos to do a thorough analysis of the big cat exhibits.

"We want to make sure they are safe, and see what kind of modifications should be done to ensure the safety of (people and animals)," he said.

Anyone who witnessed the tiger's escape Tuesday or the attacks is asked to call authorities at (415) 553-1141.

Chronicle staff writers Meredith May, Cecilia Vega and Steve Rubenstein contributed to this report. E-mail the writers at [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].
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(12-26) 17:27 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Police are treating the San Francisco Zoo as a crime scene today, one day after a 350-pound tiger escaped and attacked three visitors from San Jose, killing a 17-year-old boy before hunting down and seriously injuring two of his friends.

Carlos Sousa Jr. was killed Christmas evening outside the tiger grotto, which is protected by a 25- to 30-foot-wide moat and 14-foot-high wall. Tatiana, a 350-pound Siberian tiger that also attacked a zookeeper almost exactly a year ago, was shot by police as it mauled one of the survivors 300 yards away from the grotto.

Zoo officials are still unsure how the tiger escaped the enclosure. Authorities believe it initially attacked all three victims, killing Sousa. Officials believe the cat then followed blood trails to Terrace Cafe, where it cornered the other boys, brothers ages 19 and 23.

Although some zoo officials speculate the threesome may have teased the tiger, San Francisco police Lt. Leroy Lindo said police currently have no reason to believe the three men taunted the animal prior to the attack, which happened shortly after the zoo's 5 p.m. closing time. Dozens of visitors and some employees were still inside the zoo at the time.

Authorities were called to the scene after receiving a call that said an unspecified animal may be loose in the zoo and that a visitor had been bitten.

When police arrived, they first found Sousa, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The officers began a search and found the 23-year-old victim lying on the ground with cuts on his face. He was cornered by the tiger. As the officers approached, police said, the tiger jumped back on top of the man and resumed its attack. The animal then became distracted by the four officers, who were yelling, and advanced toward the officers. All four fired their .40-caliber handguns, hitting the tiger an unknown number of times.

San Francisco Police Sgt. Neville Gittens said the officers did not want to shoot the animal while it was sitting next to the victim.

"I can only imagine the patrons walking around, and suddenly seeing this tiger," he said. "It was probably surreal."

The officers then found the third victim, the 19-year-old man, near his brother.

The brothers were in stable condition today after surgeries at San Francisco General Hospital.

John Sousa said he learned of his nephew's death this morning.

"This is very rough, very hard on us. There's nothing much we can do. This will be investigated, it's going to take some time," he said. "He was a great kid, he took off on Christmas with friends, we're not sure what happened."

San Francisco Zoo Director Manuel Mollinedo said the zoo has a response team that is armed with tranquilizers and firearms, but that the scene unfolded "so quickly that the officers found (Tatiana) first."

The zoo does not have video surveillance, police said, so the investigation will be based on physical evidence collected at the zoo, witness statements, the autopsy of the dead man and the necropsy of the tiger.

Police officers, along with fire department and zoo personnel, conducted four searches of the zoo grounds between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to ensure no other people had been attacked, Gittens said. Authorities used a California Highway Patrol helicopter with thermal imaging and floodlights to comb the zoo for additional victims or escaped animals when it was still dark, he said.

At one point, police said, zoo officials feared that the four other tigers that belong to the zoo were on the loose. Authorities said one zookeeper wanted to go into the large cat grotto to account for the remaining animals, and police had to physically restrain him.

Rochelle Dicker, an emergency room surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital who operated on the victims, said today that the two unnamed brothers were recovering remarkably well. Doctors are focusing on preventing infection from the bacteria that may be present in the men's wounds, she said. That bacteria is similar to the type found in the common house cat, officials said.

Dicker said the men were in critical condition when they arrived at the hospital Tuesday but that emergency crews had managed to stabilize the victims and clean their wounds. Both men underwent multiple surgeries with several different teams of doctors through the night, she said. The surgeries mostly consisted of cleaning the wounds more thoroughly and stitching the gashes, Dicker said.

Doctors will keep the men at the hospital today to monitor them, she said. Dicker attributed their recovery to the fact that both are young and in good health.

The zoo, which is closed today for the first time in years, was eerily quiet this morning. The cafe where the attack victims were found is shuttered and still. A dozen police officers gathered with zoo officials just west of the cafe earlier this morning, poring over maps and handing out equipment. This afternoon, a handful of visitors continued to filter up to the entrance, unaware of what had happened.

"Oh my gosh! I hadn't heard anything about a tiger," said one visitor, Komer Poodari, of San Jose. "I guess we'll go to Fisherman's Wharf."

Mollinedo said that officials hope to reopen the zoo Thursday, but plan on keeping the outdoor big cat exhibit closed indefinitely. Police are treating the area as a crime scene, collecting physical evidence and taking statements from any witnesses, Police Chief Heather Fong said.

Lora LaMarca, a zoo spokeswoman, said this morning that officials still have no idea how the animal escaped from its grotto. Police refused to rule out the possibility of carelessness or criminal activity, and zoo officials said the tiger did not escape through the grotto's only door.

"We don't know at this point if somebody let the tiger out or it climbed out," Gittens said, adding that if someone did let the animal out it would be considered a crime.

The zoo held a staff meeting this morning, LaMarca said, and authorities there are offering grief counselors to its employees.

"The zoo offers its sincerest sympathies to the people affected," she said.

This is the second time in just over a year that Tatiana attacked a human.

On Dec. 22, 2006, the tiger chewed the flesh off zookeeper Lori Komejan's arm after a public feeding demonstration. A state investigation later ruled that the zoo was at fault for the attack because of the way the cages were configured.

A June report from the state Division of Occupation Safety and Health blamed the San Francisco Zoo for the 2006 attack, stating that the tiger cages were configured in a way that made it possible for Tatiana to bite the zookeeper's arm. The state found that Komejan was attacked after she reached through a drain trough to retrieve an item near the tiger's side of the cage. The tiger reached under the cage bars and grabbed her right arm, but the zookeeper tried to push the tiger away using her other arm, the report found.

Both of her arms were under the cage at that point and her face was pressed against the cage bars, according to the report. Another employee grabbed a long-handled squeegee and hit the tiger in the head until it released the injured zookeeper.

"There was never any consideration for putting her down - the tiger was acting like a normal tiger," Mollinedo said today.

The public feedings at the Lion House resumed in September after about $250,000 in safety upgrades. The city, which helps fund the zoo, is currently facing a lawsuit from Komejan and is assessing today whether it is at all liable for the Christmas Day mauling, officials said.

Mayor Gavin Newsom is in Hawaii for a Christmas vacation; Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, the acting mayor, has not commented publicly.

Mollinedo said today that he has brought in colleagues from other accredited zoos to do a thorough analysis of the big cat exhibits.

"We want to make sure they are safe, and see what kind of modifications should be done to ensure the safety of (people and animals)," he said.

Anyone who witnessed the tiger's escape Tuesday or the attacks is asked to call authorities at (415) 553-1141.

Chronicle staff writers Meredith May, Cecilia Vega and Steve Rubenstein contributed to this report. E-mail the writers at [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].
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描述:Tatiana, a Siberian tiger, mauled a zookeeper in December 2006. She escaped Tuesday and San Francisc
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旧金山动物园1老虎出笼 咬死1游客伤2人
中国网12月26日报道 据CNN26日报道,一只老虎25日从旧金山动物园的虎笼中逃脱,咬死一名游客,咬伤两人。旧金山消防队发言人对CNN记者说,事件发生在当天下午5时左右,当时正是动物园准备关门的时间。肇事老虎已被击毙,但尚不清楚老虎是如何逃出虎笼的。

据消防员称,在老虎咬死一人,还继续攻击其他两名游客时被射死。两名伤者已被送到旧金山医院,目前还未脱离生命危险。据悉两名伤者分别为19岁和23岁,但医院发言人不愿透露伤者的详细消息。

旧金山消防队发言人称:“当时动物园正准备关门,一只老虎从一个笼子里逃出来冲进了公园的一家咖啡厅,它攻击了里面的一名游客,导致游客当场死亡。当老虎继续攻击其他两名游客时警察赶到现场,并开枪把老虎打死。”当时笼子里有四只老虎,其中一只逃脱。

据报道,事故发生后该动物园已经被封锁,警察开始还担心还有其他老虎逃脱,随后排除这种可能。

旧金山动物园有着78年的历史,动物园的关门时间是下午5点,在下午5点15分时当地警察接到动物园内有老虎逃脱的消息。目前,当地警察、消防队员及动物园的官员还在现场调查。
描述:消防员用担架把被老虎咬伤的游客抬上救护车
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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”  -----  Henry David Thoreau
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地下室  发表于: 2007-12-27   
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Wall at SF Zoo's tiger exhibit is shorter than initially believed

(12-27) 20:37 PST San Francisco -- The moat wall protecting the public from the tigers at the San Francisco Zoo is only 12 1/2 feet high - 4 feet shorter than the accepted national standard for safety.

It's also 8 feet shorter than zoo officials first said it was.

"There have been a lot of different measurements regarding the moat," zoo director Manuel Mollinedo said today. "Today we went out and measured the moat ourselves."

In two days since a fatal tiger attack on Christmas Day, the zoo has given at least five different measurements for the tiger outdoor exhibit. The dimensions have been unclear in part because the zoo has remained closed since Tuesday, has denied the public and press access to its grounds and has forbidden employees from talking about the tragedy.

The zoo's changing story regarding the exhibit's dimensions is only one headache for investigators trying to piece together how a Siberian tiger got out of her outdoor setting, killed one San Jose teen and injured two of his friends.

The survivors haven't been forthcoming in interviews with police, according to sources close to the investigation. And the zoo doesn't have cameras that might have recorded the big cat's escape. Mollinedo has also vacillated on whether the tiger might have needed human help to jump out of the grotto.

Police have not ruled out that the cat might have latched on to a dangling arm or leg to pull itself out. Sources said Tatiana's hind claws showed signs of wear and stress, possibly indicating she scaled the concrete wall.

After leaving her outdoor exhibit, the animal fatally mauled 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. and injured his friends, brothers Paul Dhaliwal, 19, and Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, all of San Jose.

An American Zoological Association expert on tigers is expected to arrive at the zoo in coming days to help local officials better understand tiger behavior and determine whether it is physically possible for a 350-pound tiger to leap or climb a 12 1/2 -foot wall. A female Siberian can grow to more than 8 feet, from snout to tail, and would be even taller standing on its hind legs and reaching up.

Investigators from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees zoos, also arrived today.

The exhibit is separated from the public by a 33-foot-wide dry moat, a small patch of vegetation and another waist-high fence. After the attack, a sign behind the fence that separates visitors from the tiger grotto was splattered in blood, sources said.

A shoeprint was found on the railing of the waist-high fence.

"We have all three pairs of shoes from the victims, and now we will see if any of them matches the footprint (on the fence)," police Chief Heather Fong said today.

Police have consistently downplayed the idea that the victims may have taunted the tiger, although Mollinedo told The Chronicle on Wednesday that it was likely that the animal was provoked.

The exhibit, built in 1940, was inspected three years ago by officials from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Mollinedo said "they raised no concerns about the wall."

Association spokesman Steve Feldman said the exhibit's walls were deemed effective - all that is needed to maintain accreditation. While there are recommended standards for such exhibits, the association only has one absolute requirement - that the animals not be able to get out, Feldman said.

The association's Species Survival Plan Program recommends that such walls be 5 meters tall, or 16.4 feet.

The actual measurements of the exhibit were contrary to information on file in the zoo office, Mollinedo said.

The tiger had to have jumped out, but "how she jumped that high is beyond me," he said. The door to the enclosure was not left ajar, he said.

Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, whose district includes the zoo and who is acting mayor while Mayor Gavin Newsom is vacationing in Hawaii, said news of the wall's true height was shocking.

"Without question, that is a very damning fact," Elsbernd said.

It's one that may have played a vital role in the attack that unfolded around twilight on Christmas.

Three paramedics were the first to find Sousa's body after someone called 911. The boy was lying near the grotto with a wide gash across his neck; the emergency workers, along with an ambulance driver, were told of additional victims outside the Terrace Cafe restaurant, about 300 yards east. When they arrived, they found the tiger standing over one of the brothers.

For a time, authorities feared as many as four tigers were loose, and they searched the park repeatedly on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, believing there could be more victims.

Fong said police officers received the 911 call at 5:07 p.m., departed for the zoo at 5:08 p.m. and killed the tiger 19 minutes later.

Two plainclothes officers arrived at the park in a police car and went to the grotto, Fong said, where they saw the deceased victim first. The officers were then were directed toward the cafe.

"They saw the victim on the ground. They saw blood coming from the victim's face. They heard him saying, 'Help me, help me,' " Fong said. "They saw the tiger sitting there, then it turned and started attacking the victim again."

At that time, she said, a patrol car carrying two uniformed officers pulled up, and the officers got out of the vehicle and attempted to distract the animal by shining their lights on it. The cat stopped attacking the man and began to move toward the plainclothes officers; all four officers at that point opened fire with their .40-caliber handguns, striking the tiger an unknown number of times.

"They didn't know where the tiger was going - they knew there had been one attack (and) a deceased person," Fong said.

Authorities now believe that the tiger escaped the grotto and first attacked one of the brothers. The men yelled, Fong said, and the tiger released the man, then grabbed Sousa. At that time, she said, the brothers ran toward the cafe, where they had eaten earlier. She said the men ran in that direction because they believed there would be people in the area.

The tiger caught up to the men and attacked the second brother outside the cafe.

Zoo officials, who said they would reopen Friday, changed their mind and said the zoo will remain closed indefinitely. Mollinedo said it would not reopen until it was deemed safe.

Jason McCormack, who manages a photo booth across from the Terrace Cafe at the zoo, arrived at the facility today to do some payroll paperwork. McCormack, who closed the booth around 4 p.m. on Christmas Day, said he was frustrated.

"I've got employees that have to get paid tomorrow and I can't get in," he said. "It's very hush-hush in there."

McCormack said he was glad he let his staff leave early that night.

"It's a good thing because they would have been freaked out if they would have seen the whole thing," he said. "It's pitch black around here by 5 p.m. I would have been scared to be anywhere near that cage the way they're describing (the situation there)."

Tension was so high at the zoo that guards today turned away a florist attempting to deliver bouquets of condolence flowers intended for Mollinedo and Robert Jenkins, the zoo's head of animal care.

"You are in our thoughts and prayers," said the notes on the rejected bouquets sent by zookeepers in Pittsburgh.
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5楼  发表于: 2007-12-28   
老虎咬死人 旧金山动物园承认兽栏高度低於标准
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美国加州旧金山动物园日前发生老虎咬死游客的不幸,经过调查发现,园方关老虎的栅栏高度只有3.8公尺,不符合官方建议的5到6公尺,老虎才会轻易地就跳出栅栏攻击游客,旧金山动物园明显有疏失。

壮硕的西伯利亚虎为什麽能轻易跳过旧金山动物园高达六公尺的栅栏攻击游客?令警方百思不解,但现在园方自己调查后的说法让外界跌破眼镜。旧金山动物园园长莫林内多27日指出:「公众区那一面护沟的围栏有3.8公尺高,宽度则有10公尺。」

什麽只有3.8公尺?根据美国官方建议,动物园的护栏高度至少要16.4英尺(约5公尺)才能预防狮虎这类猛兽跳出,但旧金山动物园的围栏却只有12英尺5英?(约3.8公尺),少了至少1.2公尺。这也让这起老虎咬死游客的不幸,显然脱不了人为疏失。

无独有偶的,威斯康辛州的林肯公园动物园27日也发生美洲狮逃脱,虽然动物园人员即时寻获脱逃的两支美洲狮,但园方发现,关狮子的护栏铁炼早就被人剪断,高度怀疑是有人刻意放出猛狮。

在南卡罗莱纳州的河岸动物园,园内也有重达180几公斤的西伯利亚虎安全措施格外引起关注,园方表示,他们的护栏高度绝对符合标准,而且工作人员非常机警。河岸动物园园长克兰兹说:「我们的养育员每天会进入展示区清扫,他们会仔细目测,以确保工作人员不会掉进去,导致动物跑了出来。」

虽然动物园方面已经加强猛兽区的安全戒备,但是他们也提醒民众,不要逗弄猛狮凶虎,以免动物抓狂后果不堪设想。
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Police, fire logs in S.F. tiger mauling show scene of chaos, delay

The initial report of a Christmas Day tiger attack was downplayed by San Francisco Zoo employees as the ravings of a mentally unstable person, triggering a slower police response, and officials later forced fire crews to wait outside the gates until enough police could arrive to escort them into the zoo, dispatch logs show.

Meanwhile, Carlos Sousa Jr. lay bleeding at the tiger exhibit for several minutes amid the confusion. It may have taken fire crews and zoo officials as long as 13 minutes from the first 911 call before crews found his body.

The police dispatch logs released Friday and fire dispatch records obtained by The Chronicle reflect a chaotic scene as zoo officials seemed ill-equipped to deal with a dire emergency.

Emergency responders and zoo officials, for example, spotted the cat moving about freely but waited for zoo employees with tranquilizer guns, according to the logs. Just minutes later, the tiger was viciously biting and clawing one of its victims at a cafe located 300 yards away from the tiger grotto. At the restaurant, police shot and killed the cat.

An obviously tense police Chief Heather Fong refused to take questions Friday during the sole news briefing, saying only that her investigators have "found absolutely no evidence of an intentional release" of Tatiana, the 4-year-old tiger who got out of her grotto, killed Sousa and injured two of his friends.

Zoo Director Manuel Mollinedo, equally tight-lipped at the briefing, announced that the zoo will reopen Thursday. "That will allow us to get everything back in order" so the zoo can once again "provide a wonderful experience" for visitors, he said.

He and Fong then hurried back through the zoo gates, declining further comment.

The police and fire logs made available Friday, however, described the horrifying events of Christmas Day in the most detail available so far.

The first 911 call was made from a zoo phone at 5:07 p.m., the fire logs show.

Police now say the call came from a cafe worker, who related what he heard from an "agitated" Amritpal "Paul" Dhaliwal, 19, as he stood screaming outside the closed and locked Terrace Cafe on the zoo's eastern edge. The worker at that point could not even tell the dispatcher whether serious bleeding was involved.

From that account, fire dispatchers obtained a vague description of the incident, saying a lone man "was bitten by an exotic animal," and had suffered a laceration. The caller said he was not with the victim, who was reported as conscious and breathing, according to the fire dispatch logs.

Police were sent at 5:07 p.m., but law enforcement authorities familiar with the incident say the vague nature of that first call meant that the incident was not given immediate priority. One of the first reports on the police log casts doubt on the incident, suggesting that zoo authorities considered the information unreliable.

"Zoo personnel dispatch now say there are two males who the zoo thinks ... are 800 (code for mentally disturbed) and making something up ... but one is in fact bleeding from the back of the head," according to a police log at 5:10 p.m.

Just one minute before, at 5:09 p.m., fire crews on their way to the scene were told the zoo was not safe, the fire log indicates. The police, meanwhile, learned from the zoo "they have a tiger out" at 5:10 p.m. A plan was made to meet the security guards at the zoo gate, but then the fire crews learned that the gate was locked.

Once at the scene at 5:12 p.m., fire crews were told that zoo security had called a "Code One, meaning they can't let anyone into the zoo," according to the fire log. A "tiger is loose," the log noted again at 5:13 p.m.

Around the same time, the police logs show, the Code One was also preventing police officers from entering: "Zoo security not letting PD in."

That impasse was solved shortly afterward, the logs indicate, and the officers were let in - sometime between 5:15 and 5:18 p.m. The two sets of logs seem to indicate varying times.

Once at the zoo, the fire log noted at 5:15 p.m., fire and police "can (see) the tiger loose" but were "waiting for the guys with the tranquilizer gun."

At 5:21, dispatchers fielded a cell phone call from Amritpal Dhaliwal and then a land line call in which dispatchers instructed him how to control his brother's bleeding over the phone. But the line went dead at 5:23 p.m.

Fire crews never left their rigs during much of the incident, Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said.

According to the police log, it was about this same time, at 5:20 p.m., that crews made it to Sousa, the 17-year-old who died, outside the tiger grotto - 13 minutes after the first call. The tiger was still loose, and medics were informed that the "scene (was) not secure."

Meanwhile, near a zoo gate at Herbst Road, the emergency teams finally came upon the tiger at 5:25 p.m. - only to have it dash off a minute later. "Tiger out of sight ... don't see the animal any more," the police log reads at 5:26 p.m.

One minute later, the situation exploded.

"Have the tiger, blu on blue," the police log reads at 5:27 p.m., meaning that if one officer (blu) fires his gun he may hit another officer (blue).

"Have tiger, on foot, attacking victim," came a few seconds later, meaning the tiger was now mauling Amritpal's 23-year-old brother, Kulbir Dhaliwal, while horrified officers watched. They were unable to shoot while the creature was so close to his victim, authorities have said, so they distracted it by shining police car lights on it.

The police log indicates that the distraction took 26 seconds - and then for about four seconds, four officers fired at the tiger with their .40-caliber handguns. After that fusillade, the command came over the dispatch system: "Stop shooting."

At 5:28 p.m. the log reads, "shot the tiger at the cafe, vict(im) being attended to."

It appears from both logs that the chaos continued with "bleeding uncontrolled" on one of the victims and other emergencies until 5:30, when it was noted that fire crews needed police "to move for medics to get through."

But the drama was not done.

For another 15 minutes or more, authorities scrambled to determine whether other tigers were loose. They had no maps of the zoo and no emergency lights to show the way.

Officers began looking for the supposed other tiger, with one reporting at 5:29 p.m., "I don't know where I'm at" ... and another transmission incorrectly indicating at the same time, "2nd tiger on Herbst (Road)." At 5:31 p.m., officers reported that they were getting shotgun ammunition.

Two minutes later, the danger was thought to worsen: "Per zoo keeper, may be four outstanding tigers," the police log reads. A few seconds after that, dispatchers ordered: "Pull all (units) out of zoo except for units w/victims."

At 5:34 p.m. came the report that "People from (the zoo were) trapped in businesses," meaning they were locking themselves indoors. Squads of police, now armed with shotguns and thermal imaging equipment, proceeded to comb the zoo for other felines.

At 5:46 p.m., it was reported that three tigers were contained and that there might be one more tiger free - and finally, four minutes later, it was confirmed at all four tigers were contained.

One minute later, the two surviving brothers were transported to San Francisco General Hospital.

After releasing the police log on Friday, Fong did not specify what possible criminal charges might be being considered in the incident. However, her agency is not the only one that could recommend punishments.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which is responsible for enforcing the Animal Welfare Act, also could impose penalties, including fines, or suspend or revoke the zoo's exhibitor license if it is found that the zoo violated federal regulations on animal enclosures. A federal team has visited the zoo.

While officials pored over details on Friday, Carlos Sousa Sr. said his son may have been too badly injured to be saved, even with a more rapid and less chaotic response.

"I don't think anything would have saved him at that point," the father said. "If they had got there in five minutes and went directly to my son, maybe they would have had a chance."

Sousa Sr. said he didn't blame the policy that kept firefighters at bay while they waited for a police escort because the situation was deemed unsafe.

"They didn't want to risk their lives," Sousa Sr. said. "If I was a paramedic and didn't know the person that was in there, I probably would have done the same thing. I would have waited until I got the OK."

But his son didn't make the same calculation in deciding to try to distract the tiger after it first attacked Kulbir Dhaliwal, Sousa Sr. said.

"For me, he's my hero, because risked his life to save another life," Sousa Sr. said, his voice cracking with emotion. "That's the most I can say right now."
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Tiger attack: Victim's brother doesn't believe he would taunt beast

When Carlos Sousa Jr. didn't show up for Christmas dinner, his father called several of his son's friends - including the two brothers injured in the tiger attack that killed the teen.

Either Amritpal "Paul" Dhaliwal, 19, or his 23-year-old brother Kulbir Dhaliwal answered the phone and told Sousa Sr. that his son wasn't with them. In reality, the three young men were either on their way to or had already arrived at the San Francisco Zoo, where they would later be mauled by a 350-pound Siberian tiger.

"I said, 'Have you seen my son?' and he said, 'No,' then he wished me a merry Christmas," the father said.

The Dhaliwal brothers remained in stable condition Thursday, recovering from their injuries at San Francisco General Hospital. Their relatives, reached Thursday at their home on a quiet San Jose cul-de-sac, declined to speak to reporters.

"We have no comment at this time," said the boys' 25-year-old brother Sunny Dhaliwal, adding that his family wanted to speak to the boys and hospital staff before talking publicly about the incident.

A man accompanying family members outside the house later told a reporter that the family would have nothing to say until after consulting with a lawyer.

The Dhaliwal brothers have been hostile to police in the current death investigation and were "extremely belligerent" in an earlier encounter with police this year, authorities say.

After the zoo attack, authorities said, the brothers had refused to give their own names, identify the victim or initially give authorities an account of what occurred.

Thursday, police interviewed the two brothers, as well as Sousa's father. Authorities didn't release the details of the interviews but did say their investigation showed that the tiger first attacked the older brother.

The brother yelled, police said, and the tiger released him, then grabbed Sousa. At that time, the brothers ran toward the cafe. The tiger caught up to them and again attacked before police fatally shot her.

"My son was trying to distract the tiger and scare it away," said Sousa Sr. after talking to police. "My son was being brave. I'm proud of him."

Sousa said Thursday that his son and Paul Dhaliwal were close friends and shared a love of music, especially hip-hop. They wanted to write music professionally, he said.

"Carlos loved to write music, and he liked to sing," Leo Ferreira, Sousa's 21-year-old half brother, said in an interview.

Ferreira, who lived with Sousa until recently moving to Gilroy, said he was supposed to see his brother on Christmas but that he didn't show up and no one knew where he was.

"It caught me off guard when I found out he was with Paul because my dad had called him," Ferreira said. "They have said before that he wasn't with them when he really was."

Ferreira said he still can't believe the boy all over the news is his brother. He was reading about the attack on AOL when his father called from the morgue and told him his brother is dead. The family is still waiting for answers, but the teen's relatives said they don't think Sousa Jr. would have done anything to provoke the attack.

"An officer said that someone provoked the cat, but I know it wasn't my brother," Ferreira said. "He loves animals and I can't see him taunting any animal or anyone, for that matter. I spent my life with him, I know how he is.

"But even if he did, (the tiger) shouldn't have gotten out."

Many questions will be answered by the Dhaliwal brothers. Outside San Francisco General on Thursday, chief of surgery Dr. William Schecter said he is optimistic the two would make a full recovery, but that they would likely remain hospitalized for days.

"They should be able to walk out of here (when they are released)," he said.

Several neighbors along the Dhaliwals' street, where young boys skateboarded Thursday afternoon amid a throng of television trucks, said they didn't know the brothers personally.

Both Kulbir and Paul Dhaliwal were charged Oct. 9 with misdemeanor public intoxication and resisting a police officer after they were arrested a short distance from their home while apparently chasing two men, according to court documents.

Kulbir Dhaliwal allegedly cursed officers and kicked the security partition between the back and front seats in a police car after being handcuffed in the Sept. 7 incident, the police report said.

The brothers pleaded not guilty to the charges and are scheduled to appear in court Jan. 15, records show.

"The reports indicate they were extremely belligerent with police," said Steuart Scott, the deputy district attorney assigned the case.

Ralph Benitez, a public defender who represents Kulbir Dhaliwal, did not return calls seeking comment.

On Thursday, Sousa's friends and family created a Web site to memorialize him.

Kalee Thompson, 15, who went to Piedmont High with Sousa, said she had Sousa and Paul Dhaliwal over last week for a Christmas party.

"When you first meet him, he's really shy, but once you get to know him he's funny, really nice, not the kind of person to be mean to anybody," she said of Sousa.

"Carlos was just a normal teen," Tatyana Stewart, a friend and neighbor in San Jose, said in an e-mail. "He always liked making me laugh by doing random things like breaking his skateboard in the middle of the street or trying to sing. He was also a very talkative person.

"He would sit with me and our neighborhood friends for hours just talking about life."

Chronicle writers Marisa Lagos, John Koopman and Jill Tucker contributed to this report. E-mail the writers at [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].
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看到这里, 我不得不8一8 了。。。

TNND.... 三个都不是好东西。。
一定是看天下太太平了 想在圣诞节制造点新闻, 。。。

三个人赶着动物园快关门的时候赶到, 5点的时候, 天已经擦黑。。。
他们的目的, 就是想放老虎出来。。。 没想到, 自己会被先咬一口。
那个23岁的, 很有可能是动手帮老虎翻墙的, 什么矮4尺5尺, 这么多年了, 也没听老虎跳出来, 怎么就那天跳出来呀。
不是他们招人老虎, 那老虎吃饱了撑的?!

没想到, 给了老虎自由, 老虎非但没感激他们, 吓唬别人, 先把那个“恩人” 咬了一口, 幸运的是, 可能就是后背受伤, 还能跑。。。
17岁的在旁边, 成了第二个受害者, 很有可能, 老虎在墙里面 咬了23岁的一口, 23岁 拔腿就跑, 17岁的还在墙外看热闹的, 还没来的急跑, 跳出来的老虎就给17岁的逮住, 一口毙命。。
23 在19岁的搀扶下, 跑向咖啡厅, 希望那里有人能救他们。。 可惜咖啡厅已经关门。。。
大概在5:07分前到达咖啡厅, 哭着喊着, 让人报警,

老虎顺着23岁留下的血迹, 追到咖啡厅, 接着咬, 教你挑衅我, 教你逗乐我, 我看你是吃饱了撑的, 没事干了。。。 (这应该是后话, 发生在5:23分左右)

5:07 pm 咖啡厅里的工作人员先打的 911, 说, 有人流血, 被动物咬伤了。。。

警察没把这当什么大事, 和动物园联系, 动物园说, 有俩个男的, (神经病嫌疑)  可能在编瞎话。。 但是其中一个人的确脑袋后面流血。。。(是呀, 没看见, 也没听说过 老虎能出笼。。 突然俩个大男人, 哭哭啼啼地, 说老虎咬了他, 那人家能不把他们当神经病吗。。。 )

5:10pm  警察得知。。 老虎出笼了。

5:12 消防车到, 但是在动物园门口被拦住了, 因为动物园进入一级战备状态。。。 (动物园封锁, 警察,消防都进不去)

5:15 -5:18, 警察消防 才被允许进入。
一进公园, 警察和消防队员, 就说, 看到老虎了, 但是再等动物园的人的 麻醉枪。。
(动物园的麻醉枪估计早就回家过节去了)

5:20.。。 警察在老虎山墙外找到17岁的尸体。

5:21 19岁从手机和座机分别打到 911. 911 的人告诉他 如何帮23岁止血。。
5:23 电话掐断, 估计老虎上来了, 19岁也被咬了。


5:25 警察和老虎相遇。 但是一分钟以后, 老虎就跑没影了。。

5:27 警察又看见老虎, 可是报告说, 如果开枪, 有可能伤到其他警察
这时老虎正在咬23岁, 离得太近, 警察没法开枪, 如果开枪打了老虎, 估计23岁跟着一块完蛋。。

警察花了26秒钟, 吸引老虎, 用警车的灯晃老虎, 老虎放下23岁, 过来看看, 这面是什么妖蛾子的时候被4个警察, 用40口径的手枪连续射击无数发子弹, 毙命。
直到接到 “停止射击”的命令, 这4个饱受惊吓的警察, 才住手。

5:28.。。 警察报告, 老虎击毙, 受伤的人已经接受急救。。。

可是这还没完, 当天晚上, 还在怀疑, 还有别的老虎也出来了, 所以。。 辛苦警察叔叔了。。 后来怎么找了, 你们自己读英文去吧。。。


这19岁23岁, 绝对不是好人。。 年初的时候当街酗酒, 被警察抓, 已经有了案底, 2008年1月15日, 还要出庭。 就在圣诞节闹事。。。真是活腻味了。。。 当时警察救他们, 要求他们告诉17岁 叫什么名字的时候, 他们竟然拒绝配合, 不告诉警察17岁的名字。
你说, 如果是无辜受害者, 能这样吗?
17岁, 真是交友不慎, 遇人不淑。。。。


TNND..我们经常光顾动物园, 出了这事, 我这小心脏真是承受不了, 想着,如果我带孩子们逛动物园的时候, 一只大老虎、大狮子, 出现在面前, 我该怎么办? TNND....怎么想, 也想不出怎么办。。 干脆不去了。。。 TNND....
真是气死我了。。。
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晚饭口上, 17岁的爸爸看不到儿子, 给他的一圈朋友打电话, 19岁还是23岁还接了电话, 说17岁没和他们在一起。。。

看了这条新闻, 你还会同情17岁、19岁、23岁吗。。。
和, 故意不说实话, 就是想以后如果有人追究责任, 找个借口。。。
蓄意就是蓄意。。。

如果真不是蓄意要惹火, 那19、23 为什么不让17岁给家里挂个电话, 报个平安, 如果当时17岁爸爸打电话的时候, 17岁真的没有和19、23 在一起。。。

what a joke..
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是镇坪的华南虎跑过去咬的吧?
应该是这样,绝对不容置疑!!!
杺栫杣杊椌柮栬,䒴蓉艿芖。
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看名字好像是南亚人。
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”  -----  Henry David Thoreau
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我觉得哥三儿像是南美人。。。

老虎是西伯利亚地, 不是华南的。。。
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Tiger attack survivors' attorney says zoo ignored cries for help

Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

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The two brothers who survived the Christmas Day tiger attack that killed their 17-year-old friend frantically sought to get help for more than 30 minutes before the zoo workers finally called 911, an attorney representing the pair said Tuesday in the first account of the event from the victims.

"The whole thing is mind-boggling," said attorney Mark Geragos, who related what he had been told about the events that left Carlos Sousa Jr. dead and his clients, Paul Dhaliwal, 19, and Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, injured.

"They were out there for 30 to 35 minutes and nobody takes them seriously - especially when there was blood. It's incredible," Geragos said.

Sam Singer, a newly hired spokesman for the zoo, said Tuesday that it was "highly unusual that (Geragos) is the only person who has the facts, when the San Francisco Police Department hasn't even completed its investigation."

"Anything that a defense attorney says has to be taken with not a pinch of salt, but a ton of salt," Singer said.

Geragos said he was retained to represent the interests of the brothers, which may include litigation against the zoo.

According to the brothers' account, as related by Geragos, the tiger's initial attack took place well before it was eventually reported to authorities. In the attack - at about 4:30 p.m. - the tiger first went for Kulbir Dhaliwal and then attacked Sousa, who had tried to distract the big cat, Geragos said. The brothers were unable to stop the attack, so they went looking for help. They decided to go back to the cafe, 300 yards away, where they had bought nachos earlier.

But it was near closing time for the zoo, and the cafe already had locked its doors. Eventually, someone inside called 911 at 5:07 p.m., the first notice authorities outside had of any attack at the zoo. It is unclear exactly when the brothers first attempted to notify people in the cafe about the attack.

After trying in vain to get inside the cafe for refuge, the brothers spotted a female security officer in a golf cart, but she appeared to be "diffident" in the face of their frantic efforts, Geragos said. The attorney said he wants to speak to that security officer as part of his own investigation.

"She was told about Carlos," Geragos said. "They were trying to get help for him.

"The security guard did virtually nothing," he added. "Here Kulbir is bleeding all over."

The attitude of the zoo is reflected in dispatch logs of the events of that night. The first call to fire officials gave no sense of urgency, even suggesting the whole thing might be the product of a deranged person's imagination. Law enforcement authorities familiar with the incident say the vague nature of that first call meant that the incident was not given immediate priority.

The early report on the police log casts doubt on the incident, suggesting that zoo authorities considered the information unreliable.

"Zoo personnel dispatch now say there are two males who the zoo thinks ... are 800 (code for mentally disturbed) and making something up ... but one is in fact bleeding from the back of the head," according to a police log entry at 5:10 p.m.

Geragos acknowledged the brothers were frantic and visibly shaken when they tried to report what happened. "They say they were acting crazy. ... I don't know how one is supposed to act after being attacked by a tiger," Geragos said.

By the time fire officials arrived at the scene at 5:12 p.m., they already knew a tiger was on the loose. Fire crews were told that zoo security had called a "Code One, meaning they can't let anyone into the zoo," according to the fire log.

The medical crews were let in under police escort, and by 5:20 p.m. they found Sousa's body, according to police dispatch logs.

After reporting the incident at the cafe and to the guard, the brothers were attacked again by the tiger as they were waiting outside the cafe for someone to help. Geragos said it was about 45 minutes from the time the three young men were first attacked until help finally arrived.

Geragos denied that the animal was taunted by anyone that day. "As far as I'm concerned, that's an urban legend," he said. "There was no taunting of the tiger."

Geragos said the three friends had come to the zoo to "hang out."

The brothers have no idea why the animal attacked. "They had just gotten something to eat," the attorney said, but he declined to go into the actual details of the attack, saying he was still investigating them.

The two brothers are distraught at the death of their friend, he said.

"These guys were close," he said. "Paul is very shaken up."

Meanwhile, a new 4- to-5-foot-tall glass wall is the most likely addition to the tiger grotto, authorities say.

The barrier would rise on the public side of the tiger grotto, adding to the 12 1/2-foot-tall moat wall and increasing the height of the barrier to 16 1/2 feet. It would be built of tempered, laminated glass, and a similar wall would also be installed in the lion exhibit.

At present, there is no glass barrier between the tiger grotto and the public observation area. Visitors are protected only by the moat wall.

In addition, surveillance cameras and electrical "hot" wires are being considered for the tiger grotto, zoo officials said.

The barrier and other additions would be built within 30 days under emergency plans authorized by the city's Recreation and Park Department, which oversees the zoo. The final design has not been approved and is subject to change.

The zoo is scheduled to reopen to the public on Thursday, although the lions and tigers will not be on exhibit, either outdoors or in the Lion House. Zoo officials have not decided whether to go ahead with a media tour and inspection of the tiger grotto today.
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Small but heartfelt vigil held for tiger who attacked teen

Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

They lighted a bonfire Tuesday on Ocean Beach for Tatiana the tiger, an animal who created one tragedy and whose death was another one.

Four people showed up on the beach at dusk to hold candles, huddle by the fire and watch the first sunset of 2008. Turnout was modest but from the heart.

"It doesn't matter how many people there are, as long as there's someone," said Jon Engdahl, a San Francisco handyman who decided to hold the vigil.

He put the word out through Internet chat rooms and brought a few logs and some lighter fluid down to the beach just across the Great Highway from the zoo where the tragedy occurred exactly one week earlier.

Maybe New Year's Day is too full of parades and football to hold a wake, but it was the least humans could do, Engdahl said.

"That animal got a raw deal at our hands," he said. "Tatiana was being a tiger. We humans are the ones that make the choices. The tigers don't."

For a while, Engdahl thought he and his dog, McCoy, would be the only ones at the vigil. Then Larry Luthi, an antiques dealer from Daly City, showed up.

He said Tatiana, the escaped tiger who killed one visitor and injured two others on Christmas afternoon before being shot to death by police, was worth lighting a candle for.

"Her death was so wrong in so many ways," he said. "What a mess."

As the sun slipped into the sea, Donna and Paul Fappiano of San Francisco arrived with three small candles and lighted them, one by one. Their dog, Roxie, sat quietly and watched.

"We go to the zoo all the time," said Paul Fappiano. "I don't know how many times we've seen that tiger. She was so elegant and so beautiful."

He knelt and stirred the logs. Down the beach, surfers were riding waves, kids were flying kites, and lovebirds were sitting in the front seats of parked cars, smooching.

"Now she's gone and she isn't coming back," Fappiano said. "Humans have failed tigers.

"We annihilate their habitat, we take away their land, we bring them here, and then this is what happens to them."

His wife said she hoped people keep going to zoos. She's been a member of the San Francisco Zoological Society for 25 years and has seen a lot of tigers and eaten a lot of popcorn.

"Zoos aren't dangerous," she said. "They're less dangerous than walking down the street."

The waves washed up to within a foot of the bonfire and then, as if they sensed the solemnity, retreated.

Maybe New Year's is the wrong day for a wake, Engdahl said, but it seemed important to do something to mark the end of the most horrible week in the history of the San Francisco Zoo. He apologized several times to his fellow mourners for the low turnout, but everyone else seemed lost in their thoughts.

"Four people for a wake seems kind of pathetic," Engdahl said, as the bonfire flickered and began to give out. "But I felt I had to do something."
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