I've read so many articles of late, I don't know which one it was in, perhaps Buzz can locate it.
Hey, LinasK. I've read every link of Buzz's that I can find and I find no reference to police verification. Maybe I'll go back to the beginning and re-read everything.
Just to flesh out my position a little: The police have NOT come forward to say
no objects were found in the moat. So the fact that they haven't corrected the reports that items were in the moat would be suggestive to me that 'some kind of' items WERE found. However, the linked articles in this thread don't agree on what objects were found. Some would seem to me to be incredibly benign......for instance, I don't care how many pinecones you throw into a moat, I find it hard to believe little pinecones would be perceived as a threat to a huge tiger. Or even that the zoo would dare to infer that pinecones in the enclosure would excuse Tatiana for killing Carlos and mauling the brothers.
Reports have varied from planks to shoes to sticks to tree branches, from pine cones to nine pound (or nine inch) rocks. Some of the items we were told were found in the moat, we now know were not. No shoe, no sling shot. So why not wonder about the truth of the entire line of 'evidence?' The 'morphing' of information tells me that the rumor mill is hard at work here. The lack of police correction seems to
suggest that there is a nugget of truth, but I find it a little hard to believe that these stooges would have walked far enough away from the cat enclosure to find sticks, pinecones, branches, etc. that could not have fallen in naturally. It's that little phrase "could not have fallen in naturally" that actually set my hinky meter going. Can you see these three----or four if Jennifer Miller is correct----dragging tree braches and pinecones from across the zoo to throw at Tatiana? The zoo director made that comment at the SAME time he said Tatiana could not have escaped her enclosure without help......something he has had to retract big time since then....if he will lie and be wrong about one thing, he will lie and be wrong about another. He has said and will say, IMO, whatever it takes to make the public believe the zoo was safely up to standard and only bad people get hurt at the zoo. Almost all recent reports talk about his hesitancy to even MENTION that the wall was too short, to even mention that Tatiana had the ability to escape that enclosure without gettng a leg up, so to speak.
Plus, it's recently been suggested that the items were sling shotted into the enclosure, even though we know it would be impossible to sling shot a tree branch. Or a nine pound (nine inch!) rock. Those statements just cannot be true!
And so I am suspicious that the items, if they exist, could not have reached the enclosure by any natural means. And even if they couldn't, without knowing that the moat was perfectly clear of objects minutes before these three showed up, then it doesn't mean too much. Unless someone SAW them throw things. That would add credibility.
