Morons Get Their Due?

First it sounded like a tragedy. One killed, two wounded in a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo.

Then it sounded like a Darwin Award where the "victims" may have been taunting the tiger and bit off more than they could chew.

Then after the story of blood and a shoe being found in the tiger moat was determined to be false, the moat itself was found to be almost four-and-a-half feet short of what it should have been, leading to questions of engineering errors and mistakes by the zoo accreditation board.

Now the pendulum has swung back the other way (again) and we get this story from the New York Post:

• Two brothers who were injured when a tiger attacked them at the San Francisco Zoo had slingshots on them at the time, a source said.

  An empty vodka bottle was also found in a car used by Amritpal Dhaliwal, 19, and his brother, Kulbir, 23, on the day of the mauling, which left 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. dead, according to the source.

  The discoveries could be an indication that the brothers may have taunted the 350-pound Siberian tiger before it leapt from its grotto.

You can't blame a tiger for being a tiger. Personally, we always cheer for nature in cases like these.