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Its crazy they don't have video footage of the whole thing. The Mini-Mart down the street has high definition video surveillance but the zoo didn't think to install cameras at the man eating gorilla exhibit?
The right answer is it was an unfortunate accident and the right thing happened...the gorilla was put down.
The fence was at the top of a 25 foot wall so there was no chance the bear could get out. It would be pretty easy to get in if you really wanted to though.
edit: should note i'm not a tree hugger and don't even bring the death of the gorilla into my thoughts. Just self accountability.
A similar incident happened in Jersey in 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-CMxMv34_A A better outcome on that day.
Beyond that, I thought the zoo officials made it very clear. They shot the gorilla because they were not sure how it would react if tranquilized. I'm 100% certain they did not want to shoot that gorilla. My guess is that they were thinking, "If we don't shoot this ape, and it rips this kid into five pieces, we're going to be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail."
From my perspective, they were "Damned if we do, damned if we don't."
But, like the other day at the grocery I'm walking out and a little boy is out in the traffic lanes wandering,he was 4ish,no parent. Looking around I see this teenage looking girl bent over in her car,probably used to being bent over, I figure she is looking for a lighter. I was right,gets lit up and then sees the kid,starts cussing and yelling.
That is who's kid gets in the gorilla cage.
Pit Row
I'm indifferent on the parents and zoo on this one. Just glad the little boy escaped relatively unharmed but bummed about the gorilla.
I agree that the kid shouldn't have been able to get into the gorilla pit. I'd like to know how that happened before casting stones. If the kid climbed over a couple of barriers, shame on mom for not looking his way for that amount of time. Maybe they need to have two fences. First one is a regular fence barrier and second one is an electric fence. Kid getting a quick zap is WAY better than a dead kid or gorilla.
I would certainly have a few choice words for momma when she got home for letting it happen, but my kids or the ape? Get your guns or I'm getting mine..
https://www.rt.com/news/333410-lions-hunters-africa-kill/
"The largest wildlife reserve in Zimbabwe said it may be forced to cull 200 of its lions after the predator’s population “exploded” due to hunters being scared off by international outrage over the killing of Cecil the lion last year.
Bubye Valley Conservancy, which is home to more lions than anywhere else in the south African country, said that the population of over 500 was too much for the reserve, the National Post reports.
The big cats have been decimating the population of antelopes and giraffes, and even wild dogs, cheetahs, and leopards, which have become easy prey after a dry summer left the grass short."
Neither of those change the reality that a kid was in the enclosure with a gorilla...and given that reality, the zoo reacted properly.
Let's not forget that it was an animal that was killed, it wasn't a human...an animal. Humans are far more important than animals, always have been always will be.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/05/30/gator-found-eating-human-remains-i…
Gorilla experts have said that the way the the gorilla was posturing the boy in front of him was a sign of aggression, that boy's life was in imminent danger.
Was the mother negligent? I don't know. I'm not making excuses for her but I read that she also had other children she was watching. I read where the child had told her more than once he wanted to get in with the gorilla. He finally slipped away and jumped in. Children can slip away when the parents get distracted.
My issue is with the zoo for the fact that he was able to get in as easy as he did. That enclosure should have had the proper barricades in place so there was no way anybody other than zoo personal could enter that enclosure by accident or on purpose.
Man...eating gorilla. So that's why it didn't eat the child. Probably was gonna wait until he grew up to the ripe age of 18.
Id imagine that gorilla was confused as all hell. Didn't know what to do. He stood the kid up. Looked around. Drug him theough the water. But what do parent apes do ? Probably that same thing. They drag their young everywhere. so who knows. Tradgedy on both sides really. It's an unfortunate "accident" hard to place blame on either side. Shit happens.
"sending a fax to Obama"
"dropping the cosby kids at the pool"
Writing a letter to nixon......
on and on
But i do like that dropping that Kanye
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