Posted on 05/30/2016 12:30:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
for the boy’s parents to be punished for not adequately supervising their child.
A Facebook page called “Justice for Harambe” received more than 41,000 “likes” within hours of its creation. The page’s description says it was created to “raise awareness of Harambe’s murder” and includes YouTube tributes and memes celebrating the western lowland gorilla and admonishing zoo officials.
“Shooting an endangered animal is worse than murder,” a commenter from Denmark named Per Serensen wrote on the page. “Soooo angry.”
Lt. Steve Saunders, a spokesman for the Cincinnati Police Department, told the Cincinnati Enquirer that they have no plans to charge the child’s parents.
That news didn’t stop tens of thousands from signing multiple online petitions calling for Cincinnati Child Protective Services to investigate the boy’s parents — who have not been identified — for negligence.
“I’m signing because a beautiful critically endangered animal was killed as a direct result of her failure to supervise her child,” one signee wrote. “I don’t blame the zoo staff for the decision they made, I’m sure they’re heartbroken.”
“If she’d watched her child he wouldn’t have been in the gorilla enclosure in the first place,” the commenter added.
A petition on Change.org asks for legislation to be passed that creates “legal consequences when an endangered animal is harmed or killed due to the negligence of visitors.” The petition has amassed more than 40,000 signatures.
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Not to mention that it's also their moronic policy to have the place crawling with child molesters.
The media has only been covering the left’s outrage over this, with their Change.org petition and what-not.
I’ve also seen many comments on social media from people who believe humans come before animals, the zoo did the right thing, and the family should be judged cautiously, and not before all of the details come out, but the media hasn’t brought up this section of the public at all.
The media is all in to assist any “grassroots action” by Democrats, no matter the cause, giving it all sorts of coverage.
The petition against Target got over ten times as many signatures as this one, but there was no wall-to-wall news coverage of the public outrage in that case.
What this case will end up being about most of all is about boosting the political power of the Democratic “grassroots.” Every time they get “outraged,” America must do whatever they demand.
My main thought is that a hockey style plexi wall separating the public from more dangerous animals makes sense. Frankly, it seems the general public are getting dumber by the year. We may need those walls everywhere soon enough, like on cruise ships for example.
Second thought, I would have authorized the kill shot as well.
Another good reason not to take your eyes and hand off your kid for even 10 seconds...
When my son was little (grown adult now) he was pretty wild and would run off at the drop of a hat. One night we were at a 4th of July fireworks show and he was being his usual rambunctious self, and I was pregnant and not feeling well. I knew he would be a handful and didn’t want him tethered to a short leash so I did the next best thing. I have miniature horses and a miniature horse halter makes a perfect toddler harness. I had plenty of long lead ropes to attach him to. NO ONE said anything ugly, quite the opposite. It was a great idea, if I say so myself.
Seven billion humans on this spinning rock & the zoo shoots the critically endangered gorilla. Of course, the mother is going to blame everybody for this incident. Hopefully, charges of reckless endangerment to a minor or felony child abuse is in this women’s future. I might be in the minority, but I will miss the gorilla more then I would the child.
Sometimes I think the world has lost its ever-loving mind.
Choice: gorilla or child.
No brainer, except for those who have no brains.
1. I was checking into a motel and my son ended up inside of a claw machine. Took him less than 30 seconds to crawl inside. Once he realized we were upset, he showed us how easy it was to get out. The staff let him keep the teddy bear. (TL:DR - kids are slippery)
I can promise you one thing. If you ever want to test your security system, recruit a classroom of 5 year olds. They’ll find every flaw in your system in less than 10 minutes. Plug every hole then invite in the 7 year olds. They’re very inventive. Once all that is done, pull in a dozen 3 year olds and watch the whole damn thing fall apart.
2. The gorilla was doing what gorillas do and shouldn’t have been killed for it. Save the kid, tighten security on the enclosure, everybody count your blessings, and move on.
3. I’ve heard people compare this to a dog biting a child. The dog is put down. This is not a fair comparison. The dog is expected to be socialized to interact with people. The gorilla is a wild animal that will always be wild. Nobody expected this animal to be safe around children.
There’s NO common sense in this situation. From anybody.
That leads me to #4...
Sometimes there is no ‘blame’. Stuff happens and sometimes it’s terribly unpredictable. The people who blame the parents are wrong. The people who killed the animal are wrong. The people who blame the zoo are wrong. Nobody can accept the simple fact that bad things somethings happen. There’s always ‘liability’ in somebody’s eyes and that’s why there are so many warning labels. ;-)
“Almost happened again today. Some woman threw something over the White House fence. Might have been a kid so there was an immediate lock-down and out came the guns. Fortunately, the primates were away”.
Wow! Can you imagine if that kid had wandered into the White House?
Every...single.,..time!
These folks, if you believe Breitbart
That kid would have been done after a bit more time in there.
I wonder how much water that kid gulped after the run through.
They might have tried to drop some food in there but the thing most likely would have taken the child along with him to get it. That kid was his prize and he would have protected his prize...till dead and even after.
>>Sometimes there is no ‘blame’. Stuff happens and sometimes it’s terribly unpredictable<<
Absolutely...I agree, but that’s not what is going to happen. The family will file a law suit against the zoo. This is why I posted the way that I did. It is the responsibility of the parent to know where their child is...not the zoo.
Agreed. You understand gorillas more accurately than the misanthropic animal worshipers do.
Firecrackers? You gotta be kidding.
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You’re right. A few M80s would have been better.
This is just more evidence of what a totally sick society we’ve become. There are whole generations that have been conditioned to think in this twisted manner. The gorilla should have been shot the second it made a move toward the child. That the gorilla was allowed to live long enough to drag the child was the travesty here.
99.999999 percent of the people who are so upset about this situation never even heard of this gorilla until now and a majority of them haven't been to a zoo in 20 years. This is nothing more than concern trolling. Interesting how easy it is, with the right situation, to brainwash the masses.
Still, the gorilla was the private property of the zoo, and family should owe the zoo for the cost of the gorilla.
Whether or not you're in the minority, I don't know. I am certain, however, that you belong in with the lunatics.
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