Posted on 05/30/2016 2:30:30 PM PDT by traumer
Exactly. Watch the video. The child’s life was very clearly in danger. I have to say I do not understand the outpouring of emotion over this incident. Clearly the gorilla should have been taken down, deadly force or otherwise. So the mom messed up. The child was going to die. Take the animal out.
There is no excuse for it around dangerous animals no matter how much you should trust the zoo. Watch them like a hawk, so to speak.
No. No one is responsible for the gorilla’s death. As a captive predator on public display it lives under a death sentence. If, for ANY reason, a human is mortally endangered by the animal it must be immediately killed.
Justice indeed! A large ape can be as dangerous to a human as a bear, a big cat, a wolf or other predator. That kid was lucky to be alive and not severely maimed.
Gorilla warfare! (rimshot)
Seriously . . . . I remember a grisly incident over 20 years ago at the local park, which was connected to a mini-zoo. Two neighboring children decided to sneak into the bear cage and go swimming in the pool there.
You can imagine what happened. One child survived; the other was literally torn apart. Police rushed in and shot the bears.
Did anyone raise a protest? No.
Granted, kids are kids, but I couldn’t help wondering at the stupidity — not only of the kids, but the parents, who let them run around unsupervised.
I have to say I agree with you. What kid wouldn't want to climb at least the first crosspiece out of curiosity?
I took my kids to zoos only a few times, and I will say I did tend to trust the zoo that they had adequate fencing around animals that could be dangerous and animals where kids could be dangerous to them.
So those are words to the wise. A smart parent will learn from others' mistakes in the news and through tragedies and most especially their own or immediate family. My dad was like that.
But a lot of the daredevil stuff I did they didn't know about. Sometimes a neighbor would tell on me and then I would get a lecture. I did learn from my mistakes though.
Shame. Harambe was just turning his life around and was planning on going to college once he finished his GED.
Was he an aspiring rapper too?
I DO BELIEVE the parents should be held responsible for NOT paying attention to a toddler at a zoo!!! What if someone had snatched the child would they have sued the zoo for not enough security, some parents just are NOT responsible enough to parent!!! This was a 100,000.00 dollar animal maybe the parents should have to pay for the animal!!!!
Is this the subspecies called Gorilla gorilla gorilla, which always cracks me up?
A lion once escaped at the Bronx zoo. The lions were kept behind a wall which was at the bottom of a hill. I think there was also a moat. What the zookeepers didn’t realize was that if a lion took a running leap down that hill, it could leap over the wall. And one day it did.
Also I remember an elephant that reached down over a fence with its trunk and picked up a little boy who had been making fun of it. Smashed him to death inside the enclosure.
Zoos need to think of all these possibilities.
I have to ask because so many seem to get so much more activated over animals than they do over baby humans - I find it "ironic"...
It’s too bad that Harambe had to be killed to save the child’s life. On the bright side, he can still vote for Hillary in November.
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