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Everyone likes a good scary/tragic animal attack story, but I find it hard to believe the zoo was open on Christmas in the first place. Here in DC the zoo is open the other 364 days of the year but no luck on Christmas. Photo by Flickr user Ber'Zophus used under a Creative Commons license Comments (24)
The Bronx Zoo is also open on Christmas. We went last year on that date when it was 60 degrees or so outside. 
Blake allusions are a cheap application of that expensive education. How about a foreign policy metaphor thrown in?
but I find it hard to believe the zoo was open on Christmas in the first place. In the bastion of liberal fascism that is the Bay Area?
For the record, no one more illustrious than Britney Spears has come out as a fan of that poem. So Blake illusions aren't really about education at all.
It's a Blake allusion AND a Watchmen reference. Nice.
Well, if the guy the tiger ate was Chinese, we can assume the tiger was Jewish.
A Jewish Zionist Neo-Con Tiger, no doubt.
San Francisco is a tourist town in a very different way than DC is. Overseas and out of town visitors expect to be entertained, the weather is nice enough in December and more importantly you can actually see the scenery. For touristing purposes SF almost flips seasons. Watching the Giants at old Candlestick could be miserably cold and damp in the summer, and certainly on summer nights. (And visiting the zoo (right on the ocean) not much better.) Watching the 49ers in that same stadium a couple months later, a totally transfrmed atmosphere. Typically beautifully warm weather. (The reason the newer baseball park works is because they located it in about the only place in SF that you can count on sun by 1PM in the summer.) Mark Twain probably never said "The coldest winter I ever spent, was a summer spent in San Francisco", but he could have, there are some western parts (including the area around the zoo) where you are lucky to see the sun once a week.
Unlike Rice-a-Roni, it's a San Francisco tradition, that I believe I once or twice pursued with my own kids. I believe it goes back to the depression. As does much (although less and less as time goes by) of the rest of the zoo -- go for the old buildings even if you don't like animals. Unfortunately the once collocated swimming pool, like Playland at the Beach, is long gone.
"Unlike Rice-a-Roni, it's a San Francisco tradition, that I believe I once or twice pursued with my own kids. I believe it goes back to the depression." Eating people is a San Francisco tradition? You've taken your kids along to eat and maul people? I understand that times were tough during the depression, but eating people still seems way over the top to me.
Just because we're humans doesn't mean that we always deserve to be on the top of the food chain.
Sorry, Petey, the tradition I referenced was only having the zoo open on December 25.
The Woodland Park (Seattle) Zoo is open 365; I've often taken my young son there on Thanksgiving Day and New Year's Day when no other kinetic recreation is available. Clever tiger to wait until the guards had hit the egg nog.
Has the NRA put out a statement yet saying this could have been avoided if only zoo visitors were armed?
This is not uncommon. For example, the Ft. Worth Zoo is open on Christmas. It's not like animals get the day off.
"This is not uncommon. For example, the Ft. Worth Zoo is open on Christmas. It's not like animals get the day off." And apparently the lack of vacation time is making the animals eat people.
Has John Edwards put out a statement yet saying this could have been avoided if we let the zoo animals unionize and collectively bargain greater vacation time?
"Has John Edwards put out a statement yet saying this could have been avoided if we let the zoo animals unionize and collectively bargain greater vacation time?" Heh. I almost went there.
The tiger's name was *Tatianna and they didn't have to murder her. What would've been wrong with tranquilizing the poor cat? She didn't want to be in prison- who does? That much should've been evident after the mauling of the trainer. These are very rare creatures and deserve the same life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness our Constituition grants us. More so in fact. Tigers are better than people. And, a whole lot better looking. We should all say a prayer for Tatianna.
Oddly enough, I had the same thought this morning, and decided to see if the Los Angeles Zoo was open on Christmas. It's not. Christmas is the only day the zoo is closed, just like the one in DC.
Tony says: "This was G-R-R-R-R-R-E-E-A-A-T-T-T! One less human to deal with!"
Trevor - because the cops got to the tiger first, it had killed one guy already and was in the process of killing another guy. This was not like those cases where some wild animal is wandering around some exurban houses and gets shot. The cops saved at least one human life.
Here's a educated political metaphor, and I went to the overblown trade school down the street from Harvard. After that, I pictured the tiger with Dick Cheney's face. Unfortunately the corrupt conservatiger is still allowed to roam free, chewing democratic institutions to shreds and terrorizing the neighborhood.
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The Blake allusion is a sign of an expensive and tasteful education. Pop should be proud.
Posted by Fred | December 26, 2007 10:57 AM