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Toddler rushed to hospital after rhino encounter at Florida zoo
cnn.com ^ | 1/2/19 | Nicole Chavez

Posted on 01/02/2019 12:38:21 PM PST by ColdOne

(CNN)A 2-year-old girl remains in the hospital a day after she was injured at a Florida zoo during a private rhino encounter experience, zoo officials and her family said. The toddler and her family were taking part Tuesday in a close-up experience with white rhinos at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida, when the girl came into contact with the animals. The family of three was given access to feel and brush the rhinos while supervised by two zookeepers in an area of the zoo where they were separated from the animals only by steel posts. The toddler wedged through the posts and got into the rhinos' yard, said Andrea Hill, the zoo's marketing and communications director.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalworship; brevard; darwincandidate; darwincandidates; florida; germany; history
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1 posted on 01/02/2019 12:38:21 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: SJackson

Of interest?


2 posted on 01/02/2019 12:38:43 PM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne
The family of three was given access to feel and brush the rhinos

This sounds like a bad idea to begin with, and it sounds like an incredibly bad idea to let a two-year old do it.

3 posted on 01/02/2019 12:40:08 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ColdOne

Florida man at fault?


4 posted on 01/02/2019 12:40:26 PM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies & other DemoKKKrats: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: ColdOne

So Mitt was in Florida?


5 posted on 01/02/2019 12:41:15 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
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To: Perseverando

Jeb Bush was in the RINO cage?


6 posted on 01/02/2019 12:41:54 PM PST by Mogger
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To: ColdOne

White rhinos can weigh up to 5100 pounds.

2 year olds can weigh up to 30 pounds.

Yeah, I don’t see a problem here. Go for it.


7 posted on 01/02/2019 12:42:15 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: ColdOne

In what universe was this considered a good idea?


8 posted on 01/02/2019 12:43:00 PM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: ColdOne

Dad sounds like an idiot.


9 posted on 01/02/2019 12:44:15 PM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: ColdOne

They should have shot the rhino, just like they did with Harambe. /s


10 posted on 01/02/2019 12:44:20 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Fox News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: Catmom

LOL I was going to post.....’mitt was there?’


11 posted on 01/02/2019 12:46:54 PM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne

Next stop for the family: Lawyers


12 posted on 01/02/2019 12:47:15 PM PST by CedarDave
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To: ColdOne

Yet another idolatrous animal worship consequence. Sad, that they inflicted it on a baby.

See the account of Alexander Cockburn in the indented quotation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism#Analysis


13 posted on 01/02/2019 12:47:22 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: ColdOne

Mitt Romney is attacking children now


14 posted on 01/02/2019 12:47:23 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ColdOne

Saved by the intercession.....of Saint Harambe.


15 posted on 01/02/2019 12:47:38 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ColdOne
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas


16 posted on 01/02/2019 12:47:38 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: ColdOne

....and why wasn’t the two yr old in the arms of a parent?


17 posted on 01/02/2019 12:47:44 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: ColdOne

I’m really sorry for the infant. Maybe they should have offered the Rino a bottle of Coke. It works for those cute Polar Bears, doesn’t it?


18 posted on 01/02/2019 12:48:26 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Responsibility2nd

My first thought on this one was...who lets their 2 year old next to a Rhino?


19 posted on 01/02/2019 12:48:29 PM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Doogle

You’re absolutely right.


20 posted on 01/02/2019 12:52:47 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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