Catch a tiger by the toe...and shoot it dead

Recently there has been a lot of talk about a 911 call regarding a woman defending her life with a firearm against a stalker and the call was released and made into a youtube video that has been making the net rounds. If you haven’t seen it, it’s here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkS8mdbml0A
Since I really don't have anything to add to that other than, EVERYONE should own firepower, I decided to post about a different 911 situation.
This post is about a 911 call that hasn’t been released as of yet. It’s about the tiger that got loose inside the San Francisco zoo, injuring two young men and killing a 17 year old boy.
Apparently, zoo officials questioned whether two men were really attacked even after seeing one of them bleeding and begging for help.
A transcript reads: “"A very agitated male is claiming that he was bitten by an animal. They do not see any animal missing. Male is bleeding from the head. I don't know if they are on drugs or what. He is talking about a third person, I don't see a third person".
Later, a man can be heard over the zoo’s security radio saying that it’s “impossible” that they were attacked by a big cat. It’s not until six full minutes into a 911 call that officials realized that there was a tiger loose.
A freakishly long seven more minutes pass before there is even mention made of the injured young men. In the midst of all the confusion, confirmation could not be made that there was only one tiger out, what the location was, and whether the injured were inside a building or not. The conscious victim was begging for help for his brother, but zoo security wouldn’t let paramedics or police gain entrance. (I found this part odd in light of the recent SWAT team breaking in a door to take an 11 year old boy from parents who rightfully would not relinquish him. But that’s another post…)
Anyway, to wrap up this weird post; after zoo officials told dispatchers that they believed the young men were “making something up”, they did make note that one was bleeding from the head. Almost 20 minutes later, after the escaped tiger was killed (for being a tiger and doing what tigers are wont to do) police and rescue crews were told eight times that there were four other tigers loose. It's still unclear how the tiger escaped its enclosure to maul the young men. Zoo officials have implied that the young men taunted the tiger… yeah, that must have been it.