Two Teens Taunted Gorilla Who Then Escaped

"It cant be easy running a zoo especially with the huge crowds Dallas gets,and no doubt if they knew they had a leaky cage they would have fixed it before the gorilla ever escaped."

Well, guess this story is not finished yet; but yes, no one killed - can only imagine the trauma however of some of these people involved, however.

I am hoping that these teens bare less responsibility rather than more; but whatever the case, we all need to be vigilant against those who would abuse animals - anywhere; anytime.

Thanks. . .and good luck with that teenager!

"It cant be easy running a zoo especially with the huge crowds Dallas gets,and no doubt if they knew they had a leaky cage they would have fixed it before the gorilla ever escaped."

Well, guess this story is not finished yet; but yes, no one killed - can only imagine the trauma however of some of these people involved, however.

I am hoping that these teens bare less responsibility rather than more; but whatever the case, we all need to be vigilant against those who would abuse animals - anywhere; anytime.

Thanks. . .and good luck with that teenager!

Inferno, I, 32
Jorge Luis Borges

From the half-light of dawn to the half-light of evening, the eyes of a leopard, in the last years of the twelfth century, looked upon a few wooden boards, some vertical iron bars, some varying men and women, a blank wall, and perhaps a stone gutter littered with dry leaves. The leopard did not know, could not know, that it yearned for love and cruelty and the hot pleasure of tearing flesh and a breeze with the scent of deer, but something inside it was suffocating and howling in rebellion, and God spoke to it in a dream: You shall live and die in this prison, so that a man that I have knowledge of may see you a certain number of times and never forget you and put your figure and your symbol into a poem, which has its exact place in the weft of the universe. You suffer captivity, but you shall have given a word to the poem. In the dream, God illuminated the animal's rude understanding and the animal grasped the reasons and accepted its fate, but when it awoke there was only an obscure resignation in it, a powerful ignorance, because the machine of the world is exceedingly complex for the simplicity of a savage beast.

Years later, Dante was to die in Ravenna, as unjustified and alone as any other man. In a dream, God told him the secret purpose of his life and work; Dante, astonished, learned at last who he was and what he was, and he blessed the bitternesses of his life. Legend has it that when he awoke, he sensed that he had received and lost an infinite thing, something he would never be able to recover, or even to descry from afar, because the machine of the world is exceedingly complex for the simplicity of men.

We should always place the higher value on the human.

If the cops didnt have a dart gun they should have unloaded their lead to protect humans,if need be.

Didnt anyone see Planet of the Apes?!

Jabari, who injured two women and a 3-year-old boy, was fatally shot by police after he charged at them.

I understand his relatives have hired Johnnie Cochran.

Oh, I agree. Don't get me wrong, I'm no PETA member. I'm not saying the cops shouldn't have killed the gorilla, just that they should have been handed at least one dart gun to try that first.

Safer for the zoo visitors, and definitely safer for the gorilla. I was just curious about "rules" that might have prohibited dart guns for the police.

Ok, here is the movie script. Bubba and Joey (from Jersey of course) and throw stones at Tuba the 400 giant ape from Uganda who is in a enclosed zoo compound. The camera sees these dudes through the gorilla's eyes, and Tuba plans her escape to terrorize them. The whole movie is made in the park. We toss in 13 or 14 people that get in the way of Tuba chasing these two guys. We bring in Steve Irwin as the Zoo keeper...who keeps saying...she's a bigun. And finally, the clincher scene...Bubba and Joey offer a breathe mint to the ape as she is about to tear them up. She smiles at them...and everyone goes home happy.

"No bananas, No peace!"

Ok, here is the movie script. Bubba and Joey (from Jersey of course) and throw stones at Tuba the 400 giant ape from Uganda who is in a enclosed zoo compound. The camera sees these dudes through the gorilla's eyes, and Tuba plans her escape to terrorize them. The whole movie is made in the park. We toss in 13 or 14 people that get in the way of Tuba chasing these two guys. We bring in Steve Irwin as the Zoo keeper...who keeps saying...she's a bigun. And finally, the clincher scene...Bubba and Joey offer a breathe mint to the ape as she is about to tear them up. She smiles at them...and everyone goes home happy.

No! No! No! All wrong! We're talkin' a teen movie here. Where's the dork/brainy-ack? The stud/jock? The smarmy jerk who, when he gets ka-bonged to pieces by the gorilla, everybody in the audience cheers? And where are the teenage bimbos?? Cheeze, when are you rookies are goin' learn? (grin)