SOUSA: An American Hero

I don't think you really know unless "The San Francisco Zoo" puts you in that situation (because they are a bunch of incompetent idiots) but sitting here right now, if you asked me, I don't think I would do it.

Mountain lion? Ok. Black bear? I might give it a shot. Siberian tiger? Not a fuckin' chance.

You could put me and 4 of my closest friends in that exact same situation and when the tiger comes over the enclosure, (the illegal enclosure that was in clear violation of safety standards) I'm running. And if my adrenaline rush gives me a step on my slow, uncoordinated buddy who eats too many cheeseburgers, to where at one point I'm running a fuckin' 4.2 40, the cries of my friend as he's being mauled to death by a Siberian tiger will forever be remembered in my head, but never would I feel any sense of guilt for not going back to help him.

Fuck him, survival of the fittest.

"Some friend you are."

Exactly my point. I wouldn't do it. But Carlos Sousa did.

Carlos Sousa heard the cries of his friend and went back to square off against "Tatianna The Tiger", an animal that he had absolutely no chance against. It was a guaranteed death sentence.

Unfortunately, that story never got told. Nobody ever wanted to address that angle. Instead, the heroic actions of Carlos Sousa were over shadowed by a carefully crafted, bullshit agenda. A "save your own ass"approach by the San Francisco Zoo in which Sousa and his friends "got what they deserved" after reports surfaced that they may have been "taunting" the tiger.

Personally, I don't give a shit what anyone said or did that may have hurt Tatianna's feelings, any young man who makes the choice to go toe to toe with a Siberian tiger and risk his own life to save his friend is hero in my book. That's some Tarzan shit right there.