Tiger survivor sentenced for DWI

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A 25-year-old man who survived a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo was sentenced Tuesday to two days in jail for drunken driving, officials said.

Kulbir Dhaliwal also was placed on three years probation and ordered to pay $1,631 in fines by Superior Court Judge Gerald Buchwald, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Dhaliwal was arrested Aug. 5 in San Mateo in the drunken driving incident, Assistant District Attorney Karen Guidotti said. Two weeks earlier, he was arrested on suspicion of felony cocaine possession in San Jose, The Chronicle reported.

Kulbir Dhaliwal and his brother, Amritpal Dhaliwal, 21, survived a Christmas Day 2007 attack by an escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo. The Siberian Tiger killed their friend Carlos Sousa Jr. 17, before being killed by police.