Originally Posted by Quicksilver

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KTVU a local news station reports.............

Two San Francisco personal injury lawyers who have experience suing the city said the zoo is on the hook for a large payout -- even if it turns out the attack victims taunted the tiger.
"It's an incredibly strong case," said George Choulos, who is not directly involved in this case. "The bottom line is that you are always going to get kids who taunt the animals. The zoo has a duty to make things safe. The zoo should have made the enclosures safe for all foreseeable users. Not all users of the zoo will be model citizens."
Choulos also said that there appears to be a "smear campaign" against the two surviving victims by zoo officials and others who are "trying to keep the focus on the victims and away from their behavior and how the enclosure was too short." Another lawyer, Khaldoun Baghdadi, said "no matter what kind of taunting the kids did, the zoo is facing significant exposure because tigers shouldn't get out of there cages. You almost don't need a law degree to know that."

He also pointed to the tiger's previous attack on a zookeeper a year ago and the varying measurements zoo officials gave of the tiger enclosure's height as other factors that could be used to show the zoo's negligence. "The more that comes out, the worse it gets for the zoo," said Baghdadi, who's also not directly involved in the tiger case.