Someone Told Me It's All Happening At The Zoo.

 

  

“When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.” George Bernard Shaw

            The great tiger litigation is heating up. Criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos has signed on to represent the two brothers mauled by Tatiana at the San Francisco Zoo. Geragos denied the humans had done anything to incite the animal, stating any such assertions were part of “a campaign of disinformation and misinformation” by zoo officials.

          Zoo director Manuel Mollinedo responded, saying: "All I know is that something prompted our tiger to jump out of her enclosure." Sam Singer, the zoo’s public relations director, added that the word of a criminal defense attorney should be taken "not just with a grain of salt but with a ton."

          Geragos appears to have a pretty good case, to say the least. The zoo’s enclosure was undersized, the “moat” was dry, the staff seemed to doubt the initial reports that the tiger was on the loose and apparently kept the police at bay outside the gate. Even if Geragos' clients taunted the tiger, zoos should expect such unmanly behavior on occasion and make sure their animals, though justifiably peeved, should not be able to retaliate.

Alan Milstein