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Mauled: Not attacked, not killed but handled roughly.
Bitched on: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Time: 11/20/2008 02:28:00 PM
About time I blogged about that man who was mauled by the white tigers in Singapore Zoo.Time: 11/20/2008 02:28:00 PM
Notice I said 'mauled', not 'attacked'. Cause if it was 'attack' then it would have implied that the tigers were at fault.
And yes, I feel that the tigers were entirely not at fault.
Course if they had 'attacked' him, it would have meant there was no provocation involved.
It would have meant the tigers escaped from where they were and pounced on him.
It would have meant he was food for them. And that would have meant he was mauled beyond recognition.
So it was the man who jumped into the enclosure and provoked the animals.
It was him who waded to where the tigers were instead of swimming away. It was him who swiped the the first blow.
The pictures are disturbing (probably not as much as seeing it happening before your very eyes); 3 large tigers looming over a cowering man. His last minutes captured frame by frame.
Seeing the face of a man who is facing death.
No one is to be blamed but him. What were his reasons for doing so? No one will ever know cause he brought it to his grave.I do feel intensely sorry for his family back in Sarawak but I am a firm believer in the idea that the man is responsible for his own life, for how he chooses to live it (or how he chooses to die).
The white tiger exhibition should not be closed down; same logic as to why we cannot shut down the MRT system just because of the many suicides that had happened.
And lets face it, these tigers are wild animals. Just because they live in the Singapore Zoo all their lives do not make them any less dangerous or any more domesticated.
But the ironic thing is that the tigers reacted in a more predictable and rational way than the man himself. They reacted by 'toying' with the new 'discovery', by chewing and pawing instead of gnawing like they would with their feed.
This is a national tragedy. Not only because someone had to die in a horrible meaningless way in our pride and joy that is our zoo but also because everyone now see the tigers as man-eaters instead of beautiful rare animals they really are. And this is all because someone chose to end his life in the worst bloodiest possible way.
Whatever it is, I offer my deepest condolences to his family and hope that he may now find his peace and solace from what was troubling him in his life.
PS: 23rd November is the anniversary of another national tragedy one year ago; the deaths of the five dragonboaters. RIP dudes.
See more pictures of the man's last minutes here.
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