Posted on 05/30/2016 2:30:30 PM PDT by traumer
I am no radical but I signed it....
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The zoo did the right thing in the circumstances. They made the right choice. Sadness over this is normal, but turning it into a political cause is stupid.
your choice
Ape lives matter. Now that you think of it....oh never mind.
Maybe it self-identified as a white person.
Rules at zoos are cast in concrete. If a top predator escapes it is killed, no questions, no maybes. If a human life is endangered by an animal it is killed, no question. The rule is shoot to kill if there is any reasonable possibility of injury to a person. The child was being dragged by the ape. The ape had to be killed.
Good post!
Did they get the whole thing on Gorilla Tape?
How ridiculous. I don’t care if 10 gorillas had to be killed, a human life is worth exponentially more.
Just call it a late term abortion of the gorilla and this whole thing goes away.
Thanks.
I would be very hesitant to sic CPC on anybody without a lot more evidence showing a long pattern of negligent or dangerous behavior by the parent. I do think the parent needs to face what happened, perhaps pay a small fine, but no, they don’t need to lose their other children or be sued into bankruptcy. That would only create more Wards of the Court, if that phrase is still in use.
I’ve always heard from my friends with kids, just how quickly they can get away from you. Years back, it wasn’t uncommon to see a parent with their child on a little leash and harness. I don’t know if that’s allowed anymore.
Has to be the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time
So in the New World Order, Blacks win against whites, but Gorillas win against Blacks?
It seems some people are going ape sh!t over this. ;)
It’s too bad that the animal had to be shot.
It’s too bad that the parents lost track of their child. As a parent, I won’t condemn them, because no parent can say that they have NEVER lost track of their children for a few minutes.
It’s too bad the zoo didn’t make it impossible for a child to get where he got. I suspect parents, without being conscience of it, assume that their kids cannot get into the animal’s territory.
Overall, a very unfortunate incident, but in the end....
PEOPLE COME FIRST. If any animal has to die to protect a human being, so be it.
There is disagreement, but a long-time observer of gorillas in the wild said the one would have killed the boy, it takes a strong hammer to smash a coconut, the expert gesticulated, but gorillas are so strong they can squeeze one in their hand and smash it open.
They didn't want to tranquillize the gorilla because the crowd was already agitating the creature, it takes time to take effect, and the shot could further agitate the animal to kill the child.
Video of the bars enclosing the area and the moat (which was pretty shallow but children do drown in shallow water sometimes) looked to be about 8 inches apart, sturdy but relatively thin bars one above the other horizontally, with no chain link or other protection. A young child could easily squeeze through in seconds.
I was upset at first because the first photos make it appear the gorilla saved the child's life by picking him up out of the moat. Maybe, but the rough handling shown in a different video released to the public, it was totally unpredictable what the gorilla would do next. It was shocking to watch that behavior.
So the zoo made the right call and the real hero in the whole thing is the person who fired the shot because they had to wait soas not to hit the child. And it is fortunate it or series of them were kill shots or THOSE could have set off the animal.
Look at the videos and then tell me the petition is a good idea. And the parents, it only takes a couple seconds sometimes for a kid to do something like that. Show me the person who never took their eyes off their child, possibly having other children in tow, and maybe they have a right to criticize. It's not as if the mother sat the kid on the top bar like happened recently.
Unless further investigation reveals serious child neglect, CPS should leave the screaming mother the hell alone.
I imagine you as a little girl in ankle socks and Mary Janes standing on the sidewalk with a poster saying “Justice for Harembe.” Not a typical freeper.
They could care less, this is just the latest easy means of signaling their virtue.
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