Gorilla Shot Dead Zoo - US

Andy_T said:
Which leads me to believe it was possibly not at the latest security standard.....
People likely were not as dumb 40 years ago.....
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yes i know when i went to a zoo when i was small child i knew better to crawl in midst of the animals, i was taught they can danger me as a human, so i didn't crawl over a fence and all with them. Sadly , people lost their common sense . I just wish those places close up.
 
All of the above, I guess. However, in the case of a 4-year-old, I would hold the parents responsible, and not the child.
 
shyvas said:
Or perhaps children were more disciplined.
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Bingo.

She was reportedly taking pictures with her cell phone and dealing with other kids while this one, who had told her he was going to get in the water, bolted off and tried to darwinize himself. But let's blame the zoo. Not that I like zoos for obvious reasons. But this boy getting into the gorilla enclosure is totally on the mother.

Dogs have to be on leashes when in public places. Maybe kids should be too.
 
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To be honest, it is already pretty scary (and irresponsible) that the mother let her 3 year old kid crawl off and fall down a 15-feet drop.

And let's face it, there are a number of places you would pass every day, where a 3-year-old can crawl through the security guards etc. (simply think about a sidewalk or a passenger bridge, a pier, an escalator in a mall) and get seriously hurt. That is what parenting should be about, but yes, accidents can and do happen.

The kid was very lucky.
 
shyvas said:
Steven Wise: Harambe's rights were violated long before his death
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Yes, this!

"There are problems abound in this situation. Neglectful parents can take their children to zoos to gawk at captive gorillas. Trigger-happy zoo response teams with little idea how to work with the exceedingly smart animals before them are permitted to shoot them. But these are minor problems. The major problem is that the Cincinnati Zoo is legally permitted to treat such extraordinarily cognitively complex and gentle animals as slaves in order to sell tickets to gawkers, and that Harambe, like every other nonhuman animal, was a legal “thing” that lacked the capacity for any legal rights, even the fundamental rights to his life and liberty." ^^from Shyvas's link ∆∆∆
 
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ledboots said:
Yes, this!

"There are problems abound in this situation. Neglectful parents can take their children to zoos to gawk at captive gorillas. Trigger-happy zoo response teams with little idea how to work with the exceedingly smart animals before them are permitted to shoot them. But these are minor problems. The major problem is that the Cincinnati Zoo is legally permitted to treat such extraordinarily cognitively complex and gentle animals as slaves in order to sell tickets to gawkers, and that Harambe, like every other nonhuman animal, was a legal “thing” that lacked the capacity for any legal rights, even the fundamental rights to his life and liberty." ^^from Shyvas's link ∆∆∆
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Cincinnati Zoo gorilla police investigation concludes, handed over to prosecutors for review
 
She's the administrator at a preschool, so she should know more than anyone else, how carefully you have to watch kids.

40 years ago they didn't have cell phones and Facebook, which most people seem to focus on over the people they are physically in the presence of.
 

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