♦TATIANA♦

SF Zoo officials uncertain how tiger escaped enclosure: saying locks were in place.

San Francisco police are investigating the possibility that one of the victims in the fatal tiger mauling on Christmas Day climbed over a waist-high fence and then dangled a leg or other body part over the edge of a moat that kept the big cat away from the public, sources close to the investigation. The minimal evidence found at the scene included a shoe & blood in an area between the gate & the edge of the 25- to 30-foot-wide moat, raising questions about what role, if any, the victims might have had in accidentally helping the animal escape. The 3 victims, all young men from San Jose, were visiting the zoo together. They were all present just outside the tiger's grotto when the tiger escaped, killed 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. with a savage slash to the throat, and injured the other two. The survivors, are brothers ages 19:Paul Dhaliwal and 23:Kulbir Dhaliwal. 911 call

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 officers who shot the 350-pound animal were alerted through a 911 call placed by a zoo employee. 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. They suffered deep bites and claw cuts on their heads, necks, arms and hands. The first attack happened right outside the Siberian’s enclosure - the victim died at the scene. A group of four officers came across his body when they entered the dark zoo grounds. The second victim was about 300 yards away, in front of the Terrace Cafe. The man was sitting on the ground, blood running from gashes in his head and Tatiana sitting next to him. The cat attacked the man again. The officers approached the tiger with their handguns. Tatiana moved in their direction and several of the officers fired, all 4 fired their .40-caliber handguns, hitting the tiger an unknown number of times -killing the animal. Only then did they see the third victim, who had also been mauled.

Now, the police search indicates that investigators believe the young men taunted the tiger, a misdemeanor. In seeking the warrant, police said they were investigating whether an unspecified felony had been committed. "As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have been taunted/agitated by its eventual victims," Matthews wrote in the affidavit. Police believe that "this factor contributed to the tiger escaping from its enclosure and attacking its victims," she said. An autopsy conducted by a zoo veterinarian on the Siberian tiger after police shot it to death showed that the animal had been "very determined to get out," Matthews said. Its claws were broken and splintered by clambering up the concrete moat wall, Matthews quoted the veterinarian as saying."This behavior may be consistent with a tiger that has been agitated and/or taunted," Matthews said. Police found a pine cone and a tree branch in the tiger's outdoor grotto when they searched it soon after the attack.

One of the two survivors told the father of the deceased Carlos Sousa that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger's exhibit, police said in court documents filed. Paul denied throwing anything into the enclosure or otherwise antagonizing the animal, according to an account contained in police investigators' request for a search warrant in connection with the Christmas Day attack. Police armed with the warrant and seeking evidence that the men had taunted the tiger searched the 2002 BMW belonging to Dhaliwal's 23-year-old brother, Kulbir, on Wednesday. They also reviewed the brothers' cell phones for any photos they might have taken before the tiger attacked. Police said they had recovered messages and images but apparently nothing incriminating in connection with the tiger attack. Investigators seized a small amount of marijuana as well as a partially filled bottle of Grey Goose vodka from the car, according to the inventory that police submitted from the search.

Both Dhaliwal brothers were hospitalized with head wounds after the maulings. Matthews said in the warrant application that Paul Dhaliwal's blood alcohol level had been measured after the attack at 0.16 percent, twice the legal level for drunkenness. Kulbir Dhaliwal's blood alcohol level was 0.04 percent, and Sousa's was 0.02 percent, Matthews said. All three also had marijuana in their systems, Matthews said. The drug can stay in blood for several days, but Kulbir Dhaliwal told police that the three had smoked marijuana and had each had "a couple shots of vodka" Christmas Day before leaving the brothers' home in San Jose, the affidavit said. According to the elder Sousa's account to police, Dhaliwal told him that he, his brother and the younger Sousa had been "waving their hands and yelling at the tiger" just before the animal bounded up a 12 1/2-foot wall from its dry moat and attacked them.

Cell phone call to 911 made by Kulbir Dhaliwa

Paul Dhaliwal - referred to in affidavit by his formal name, Amritpal - "said the three of them were standing on the railing looking at the tiger," Sousa told police. The 3-foot-tall metal railing is a few feet from the edge of the tiger moat. Dhaliwal told Sousa that "when they got down they heard a noise in the bushes, and the tiger was jumping out of the bushes" on Paul Dhaliwal, the affidavit said.Paul Dhaliwal apparently was reluctant to talk immediately after the attack, according to Matthews' affidavit. One of the paramedics who rode with him in an ambulance to San Francisco General Hospital told police she had tried to interview him but that he had said only, "I don't want anyone to know," Matthews wrote. When the unidentified paramedic persisted, Dhaliwal told her to "just shut up," the affidavit said. He also denied having a cell phone after first asking the paramedic if she wanted his phone number and laughing, the affidavit said. Sources close to the investigation have told The San Francisco Chronicle that it appeared the brothers made a pact of silence while riding together in the ambulance to the hospital. "Don't tell them what we did," Kulbir reportedly told Paul in the ambulance, paramedics told police. Authorities also have the report of a zoo visitor who said she saw a group that included Sousa taunting the zoo's lions shortly before the tiger escaped.

Tatiana: 4 year old siberian Tiger

The tiger: Tatiana, who was born in captivity,a female named Tatiana, was the same animal that attacked a female trainer ripping her flesh off in front of dozens of onlookers after a feeding demonstration on Dec. 22, 2006. The trainer was bitten on both arms and underwent extensive surgeries. The zoo’s Lion House was closed for almost nine months following that incident. An investigation of that incident by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health faulted the zoo, which beefed up the pen where big cats are kept. “This incident is totally separate and apart” from the 2006 one, Mollinedo said, adding that since the 2006 attack,Tatiana “seemed to be very well adjusted into that exhibit "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. last year’s attack, the zoo added customized steel mesh over the bars, built in a feeding shoot and increased the distance between the public and the cats. There were five tigers at the zoo - three Sumatrans and two Siberians. Officials initially worried that four tigers had escaped, but soon learned only Tatiana had escaped.

Jack Hanna, the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and a frequent guest on nationally televised talk shows, predicted that other U.S. zoos would reassess their tiger enclosures if it turns out the tiger was able to leap out. “This is a first in this country,” Hanna said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “I’ve never heard of an individual (zoo visitor) being killed by an animal.

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I love shit like this. If this were talking about Miami Beach, we'd have to say my opinion would be biased, -COME ON- I was born there. Now, far from being a local, on the subject of San Francisco- my opinion is one of an observer.

So here it is, my 2 cents:
•When visiting NYC, I've stayed & had fun in Manhattan & with bridge & tunnelers, but I've never heard anyone use "bridge & tunnelers" here. In fact, 2 friends from the bay area asked about the term.
•The "burners" do go on about the fest much, (wo!) but I won't talk to much shit, because I haven't been yet.
•The "summer" is ....a hard subject for someone from Miami to even talk about. You do see goofy peeps in shorts, but hey, wasn't Mark twain from the south? The quote is not that far off.
•I use Frisco all the time, Whatev-!
•I've caught myself saying "hella" more than once, & internally giggled my but off.
•I live @ the end of the christmas line, I love being so close 2 the ocean, but the "Noel" line, is no joke.

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I love Biographies. Always have. I don't really even like reading fiction too much, and reading an interesting person's life story can be great nonfiction. I love reading a interesting personal quote thats unexpected. Recently while using the biography channel as background noise, I heard of Bobby Kennedy's favorite quote being from Dante's inferno. Something about "the deepest depths of hell & neutrality". I tossed my ibook aside & listened for more. Unfortunately, all I got was an inspiring story about how b.Kennedy suddenly took on the civil rights cause after tragedy was befallen on 2 him after a life of privilege.


Is being neutral or open minded a bad thing? As a kid, my summer's were spent in a 3rd world country, been to both the Caribbean & Europe more than once. I was even the only American girl in my 5 girl dorm apartment, the 1st time I went to college. I always subconsciously felt that 2 enjoy alot of these experiences, you had 2 personally own a little open mindedness. Looking at it again though, maybe it just might be the other way around.

I'm not against reviewing opinions in life that i hold or have held. I'm not a republican, so you can't scare me with the flip-flop tagline. Was this a trait I should not be so proud of as a start 2 mature intellectually? hhuumm... Well, 1st things first, you know, -maybe I'm not so bad. So the first stupid quiz regarding the matter I saw, I took. This was my result:


You Are 84% Open Minded
You are so open minded that your brain may have fallen out!
Well, not really. But you may be confused on where you stand.
You don't have a judgmental bone in your body, and you're very accepting.
You enjoy the best of every life philosophy, even if you sometimes
contradict yourself.

How open-minded are you?



Pretty funny stuff huh? Well, I could have let that get to me, if I gave a shit, but instead I looked up the original quote that started this. It said this:

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri

See that,.. it said "neutrality in times of moral crisis" that's not me,
I'm totally in the clear ....At least for that! ha

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So, I come in right about where there's talk about both things being true. Although, I have yet to see secular terrorist?
·Terrorist= Care about some shit ~a whole lot!
·Secular= Don't give a shit 'bout nuthin'!
It was a good one though.

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It hurts me 2 say my man mighty Mos, needs to read up on the period of Muslim rule.

• In 622 C.E., Muhammad makes the journey from Mecca to Medina, known as Hegira, marks the foundation of Islam.

• In 638 C.E The Arabs, belonging to the new Islamic religion and led by the Caliph Omar, capture Jerusalem, ushering in a four-hundred-and-fifty-year period of Muslim rule.

• In 685 The Caliph Abd el-Malik commissions the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. This shrine commemorates the spot from which, according to the Koran, Muhammad was carried on his magical horse to the "farthest place," from which he visited Allah in heaven. Muslim tradition says that the "farthest place" was Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Mosque, opposite the Dome of the Rock, is built for prayer at the beginning of the eighth century.

• In 900s-1000s C.E. A number of Muslim groups fight for control of the city.

• In 1099 The Crusaders, Western Christians led by Godfrey Bouillon, capture Jerusalem from the Muslims in the First Crusade. Pope Urban II had called upon Christians to recapture the holy city. The Crusaders massacre both Muslims and Jews alike, and forbid their settlement in the city.

• In 1187 Muslims recapture the city under Sultan Saladin and Muslims and Jews return to the city in large numbers, reinstating Muslim control. Churches are converted into mosques and Muslim shrines are restored.

• In 1228 The Crusaders return and, through a treaty, the Muslims surrender Jerusalem to Frederick II, who crowns himself King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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So back to the we shit, There's enough blame to go around history a couple of times. Pardon the pun, but wouldn't it be the bomb if we were different.
WE WHAT?

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Current mood: pensive

Machiavellian- [mak-ee-uh-vel-ee-uhn]
Main Entry: Cunning
Part of Speech: Adjective

• Definition: Devious

• Synonyms: Machiavellian, acute, artful, astute, cagey, canny, crafty, deep, fancy footwork, foxy, guileful, insidious, keen, knowing, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, sly boots,smart, smarts, smooth, streetwise, subtle, tricky, wary, wily

• Antonyms: artless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, naive, sincere

1) being or acting in accordance with the principles of government analyzed in Machiavelli's The Prince, in which political expediency is placed above morality and the use of craft and deceit to maintain the authority and carry out the policies of a ruler is described.

2) characterized by subtle or unscrupulous cunning, deception, expediency, or dishonesty:
He resorted to Machiavellian tactics in order to get ahead.

I'm at this weird place right now,
emotionally speaking.

I'm not wanting to verbally express myself

At a time when I have so much to express.

It's weird because, as a gemini,-

I am to have supposedly been born a natural communicator.

No, I haven't misplaced the infamous verbal gift
(times a curse).

But I have found that when I want to sum up my
current mood, I end up feeling stumped.

I find myself in a unexpected transitional phase which is seems to require caution and restraint.

In the past, my feelings have been based on criticism & suspicion, but they are not this time.

It maybe, that karmically,

I have felt the real depth of fully loving someone in a way that almost seemed abstract to me.

But really, I'm too much of a skeptic
~2 be a true mystic.

Surprised I'm not. Cold... No. Detached? maybe, but not fully by choice-

I do belong to the element of air after all.

..You Are Somewhat Machiavellian

You're not going to mow over everyone to get ahead...But you're also powerful enough to make things happen for yourself. You understand how the world works, even when it's an ugly place. You just don't get ugly yourself - unless you have to!

How Machiavellian Are You?

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Esquire Magazine 3/1958

"The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way-

-a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word 'beat' spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night of postwar America--beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction--We'd even heard old 1910 Daddy Hipsters of the streets speak the word that way, with a melancholy sneer--It never meant juvenile delinquents, it meant characters of a special spirituality who didn't gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization--the subterraneans heroes who'd finally turned from the 'freedom' machine of the West and were taking drugs, digging bop, having flashes of insight, experiencing the 'derangement of the senses,' talking strange, being poor and glad, prophesying a new style for American culture, a new style (we thought), a new incantation-

-The same thing was almost going on in the postwar France of Sartre and Genet and what's more we knew about it- -But as to the actual existence of a Beat Generation, chances are it was really just an idea in our minds-- We'd stay up 24 hours drinking cup after cup of black coffee, playing record after record of Wardell Gray, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Willie Jackson, Lennie Tristano and all the rest, talking madly about that holy new feeling out there in the streets-

-We'd write stories about some strange beatific Negro hepcat saint with goatee hitchhiking across Iowa with taped up horn bringing the secret message of blowing to other coasts, other cities, like a veritable Walter the Penniless leading an invisible First Crusade- -We had our mystic heroes and wrote, nay sung novels about them, erected long poems celebrating the new 'angels' of the American underground--In actuality there was only a handful of real hip swinging cats and what there was vanished mightily swiftly during the Korean War when (and after) a sinister new kind of efficiency appeared in America, maybe it was the result of the universalization of Television and nothing else (the Polite Total Police Control of Dragnet's 'peace' officers) but the beat characters after 1950 vanished into jails and madhouses, or were shamed into silent conformity, the generation itself was shortlived and small in number."

Jack Kerouac



I have always been in love with the beat generation.
Their ideas, hopes, dreams, smarts, adventures, ect.
Living so close to their birthplace kinda inspires me in a way that I didn't expect.
I'm like a dork when around the city lights book store.
Anyway, I recently read Jack Kerouac's
Philosophy of the Beat Generation in what would have been a older esquire mag article.
The man's mind is beautiful.

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