The suit will be filed by the end of the week
Posted on 05/31/2016 12:35:44 PM PDT by servo1969
Perhaps Rush is just taking a page from Obama and justifying the shooting before the facts are in. Another opportunity for Rushbo to be the unqualified animal psychologist. He has absolutely no idea about the history of the gorilla or about it’s previous behavior toward people or young gorillas. Both things are relevant and should have been well known to the zoo staff, yet we aren’t hearing about that from the zoo. It’s a tragedy. I’m not happy with the outcome, but I’m withholding judgement until the facts are complete. I do hope the liberals fry everyone until the facts are all transparent.
Thank you for that! Brilliant!
You can see it in the video links above, when it shows folks looking down on gorilla from above.
Doesn’t look like much, but I’m still surprised a toddler could get over it.
Maybe a undercover PETA protester put him on top of it. Sometimes they go to zoos to covertly videotape in the hopes of catching “abuse”.
If no one saw the kid climbing over, no one would’ve seen him being placed on top. Crime of opportunity?
You are correct. Pdrent’s responsibility. I was there recently. I leaned on that fence. You can’t lean on a 3 foot fence comfortably. I’m thinking it was taller than 3 feet. In 18 years not a single incident, but this genius child figures it out instantly under the watchful eyes of its mother. /sarc
I still can’t find a clear shot of the fence, where you can see how wide he openings in it are, etc. A lot of the reporting describes the kid as having gone through the fence, and not over it.
The mother has 4 kids so conceivably one of the other kids distracted her at the moment the 4-year-old got into the enclosure, but according to someone on another thread she was texting. So we can't criticize her without offending all the people who text while driving or while attending class.
“I do think animals should have some basic rights.”
Perhaps they should.
But they don’t, and it is the worst sort of lunacy to think they do.
“According to the Bible, animals do have rights.”
Road apples.
“We are not to be cruel to animals.”
That’s our responsibility, not their right.
No fence. Just concrete shaped and painted to look like square boulders, about 3 ft high.
The worst part is that they have since discovered that the DDT had noting to do with eagle problems.
Millions of people dead of malaria, because a drooling moron wrote a book based on junk science and hysteria.
So why are there cruelty to animals laws?
Best Gorilla in the world worth .... maybe one cent
Any 4 year old human child worth ... more than a billion dollars.
Shoot the damn Gorilla.
The “damn Gorilla” was protecting the child, until the screaming got it rattled.
Human animals barking like cornered hyenas.
The suit will be filed by the end of the week
This specific gorilla was not black, but silver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTOb_KkHkm4
If it were a naked, drunk jumping in to commune with the gorilla, and they shot it, I would be outraged. But you don’t take a chance with a small child.
The zoo team made the right call..
However, Alexander Cockburn writes:...Nazi leaders were noted for love of their pets and for certain animals, notably apex predators like the wolf and the lion. Hitler, a vegetarian and hater of hunting, adored dogs...Goebbels said, famously, ‘The only real friend one has in the end is the dog...One, as just noted, many Nazi leaders harboured affection towards animals but antipathy to humans. Hitler was given films by a maharaja which displayed animals killing people. The Führer watched with equanimity. Another film showed humans killing animals. Hitler covered his eyes and begged to be told when the slaughter was over.[30]
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