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Tiger attack disputed: San Francisco police this week said that the survivors of a vicious tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo may have provoked the animal by taunting it. The men, 23-year-old Kulbir Dhaliwal and his 19-year-old brother, Paul, were mauled in the Christmas Day attack that claimed the life of their 17-year-old friend. One witness reported seeing the men teasing the 350-pound Siberian tiger before it leaped from its enclosure, and paramedics say they heard the two men agreeing not to cooperate with police as they were being rushed to the hospital. The brothers’ attorney, Mark Geragos, accused the San Francisco police of “character assassination,” and claimed that the tiger’s enclosure “couldn’t hold a house cat.”

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