Carrying a slingshot into a Zoo?

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No matter what the young men might have done to provoke the tiger, legal experts say the zoo is responsible to keep the tiger confined. If it escapes, the zoo is "strictly liable," said Peter Keane, law professor at San Francisco's Golden Gate Law School.

"If you have a wild animal and you keep it and it gets out of your control, you're liable," said Peter Keane, law professor at San Francisco's Golden Gate Law School.

However, he said, any evidence of taunting could influence how much the zoo pays out in damages to the victims. If the case goes to court and a jury believes the men taunted the tiger and were partially responsible for the attack, the amount of the jury award can be reduced.

"If they just stood there and said, 'nah nah nah nah nah nah, you're a lousy tiger,' that would be one thing," Keane said. "The taunting itself would have to be some kind of conduct that a reasonable person would know would be dangerous, like going up on top of the fense and trying to lure the thing out. It would have to be more than throwing peanut shells at the tiger."