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Brevard County, Florida ping.Let me know if you want on or off this low volume ping list.
(not associated with the county government)
Here comes lawsuits from parents who don’t control
their snot-nosed kid.
A while back, a couple of friends and I went to Six Flags Wild Safari in central Jersey and one of the animals wandering freely was a rhino. I said to my friends, "Lads. We need to get a move on. That's a rhino over there. I've seen Hatari and this Subaru ain't no jeep."
The toddler wedged through the posts and got into the rhinos' yard . . . .
The posts are roughly 11 inches apart. . .
As two female rhinos approached the toddler, the snout of one made contact with the child and she got bumped, Hill said.
The child's father, who was holding on to her throughout the incident, quickly pulled her out and carried her to the front office, the zoo said. The girl was taken to a pediatric hospital. Details of the child's injuries or condition were not immediately known.
If the child was being held by the hand, it's unlikely the tot got fully into the rhino's yard.
Sounds like the little one somehow wiggled halfway thru the steel posts and was crushed against one of them by the rhino's inquisitive snout--with two tons of meat behind it.
Triple P syndrome. The second and third are ‘Poor Parenting’.
“The rhinos’ welfare “was never compromised and they will not be ‘punished’ in any way,” “
BAD RHINO! GO TO YOUR ROOM!
I have membership in the Brevard County Zoo, and have done the Rhino encounter there. The visitors are separated from the animal by a series of posts set a little less than a foot apart, and higher than head height. The type you would use to support a chain link fence, however they seemed to me to be well reinforced. The rhinos are fairly docile animals in this setting, and share the enclosure with some Zebras. The most activity I’ve seen from either of them, was one Spring when one of them was trying to get the other one to give him a piggy back ride. The rhinos are trained to come to the encounter area where they are checked over and given any special treatment needed by the keeper. You can pet them (through the bars) although they don’t really seem to notice, or use the stiff bristled brush provided, which the do notice and seem to enjoy.
I suspect what happened was that the 2 year old was not being supervised and slipped through the bars. I think the big guy was just curious about the new critter that was in his enclosure. I suspect that the next time I go to the Brevard Zoo there will be a section of chain-link across the bars, at about child height. I also plan to take my Granddaughter to see the rhinos, but she will be well SUPERVISED
What could possibly go wrong?
Sheesh...
Remember when Sharon Stone’s hubby got bit by the Komodo dragon during a private tour? Maybe those tours aren’t the greatest idea.
Kind of on topic
Brevard County, Florida ping.