Like a good breakfast cereal, San Francisco is loaded with nuts, fruits, and flakes!!!!!!

The San Francisco citizen above, is not the one who jumped into the grizzly bear exhibit yesterday, but he sure could have been. In San Francisco it makes sense to folks that if zoo exhibits are redesigned so that the animals can't jump out, they jump into the zoo exhibit.

(09-26) 20:29 PDT San Francisco -- A man snuck into the grizzly bear
exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday and was taken into custody
almost immediately without suffering any major injuries, city officials
said.
The quickly resolved incident indicates that safety procedures instated
after 2007 fatal tiger attack are working, said Nathan Ballard, a
spokesman for Mayor Gavin Newsom. In that incident, the zoo made
international headlines when a Siberian tiger escaped her enclosure and
attacked three people, killing a 17-year-old boy.
Saturday's incident occurred around 5 p.m. when a man "gained access to
the grizzly bear exhibit," according to a written statement by zoo
spokeswoman Gwendolyn Tornatore. The zoo's two grizzly bears were in the
exhibit at the time, she said.
A zoo visitor alerted officials to the situation, and they "immediately
implemented a code red response," Tornatore said. A shooting team along
with several zookeepers responded to the area, she said, where officials
fired a warning shot to keep the bears away from the intruder.
The bears were ushered into their dens and locked in, she said.
It's not clear what prompted the man to sneak into the enclosure, or how
he gained access to the two-year-old grizzly exhibit, which is surrounded
by glass walls in some portions and electric wire fencing in others.
In the statement, Tornatore said the man was "conscious but unresponsive"
when he was being treated by paramedics, she said. His only injuries were
apparently some burns from the fence, according to sources.
Ballard said the man was taken into custody by police, and the incident is
being investigated by police and zoo officials. Police said the man will
likely face charges for entering the exhibit.
The zoo overhauled its safety procedures in the aftermath of the fatal
tiger attack, which occurred on Christmas Day 2007, ending with the fatal
shooting of the tiger by police. In addition to retraining staff and
working more closely with police after that fatal incident, officials also
raised the walls of the some enclosures and installed electric fencing
around a number of exhibits.
"The protocols set in place after tiger attack were followed and situation
was resolved immediately - the protocols worked," Ballard said. "There
will be a complete investigation into how exactly he was able to enter
into the bear enclosure, but I will say that enclosures are designed to
keep bears in, not people out. They are ringed by hot wire and electric
fences."
Ballard praised both zoo officials and police for their speedy response to
the potentially deadly situation.
"The zookeepers behaved heroically - they prevented a serious injury or
death by their swift intervention," he said. "And San Francisco Police
Department was on scene within moments."

Cutting edge exhibit design at the San Francisco Zoo

Courtesy of Mark Rosenthal