Based on what people were saying I figured the kid had to do a version of mini tough mudder to get in there. Instead it looks like he did a regular version of climb over a 3' wall.
I've never been to the Cincy zoo, as the city I live in has a god tier zoo.... but I feel like seeing a 3 foot wall as all that is keeping someone from going to visit the gorillas would strike me as a bit concerning.
The kid was under the Gorillas legs when shot? So they possibly could have shot the Gorilla and then crushed the kid under it's weight. That would have been a mega disaster
just an all around tragic situation. With the benefit of hindsight, the zookeeper obviously should have released a band of mischievous otters into the moat to run interference on the gorilla, and a pelican to swoop in and gulp the kid into his beak and fly away to safety. You're a fucking zookeeper, AKA the most well-resourced person on the planet.
They had to make a quick call, and it was the right one. The zookeepers spend their lives with these animals and I'm sure that they're devistated. The fact that people are going after the zoo is asinine.
Why didn't they use their taser? Why didn't they shoot the gun out of his hand? Was the gorilla even detained?
The zoo did the right thing and I am sure it was a hard decision to make. Also side with Artoo in that 4 year olds can be tricky, very elusive. I know that when my son was 5 we travled to Indy for a wedding , we were getting our bags and turned our backs on him for seconds. He wandered off and we had the airport on lock down for 1/2 an hour looking for him. Here he was watching them unload a police dog from baggage. He was all thrilled. Seconds and he was gone, it was the single most scariest moment of my life my wife too.
Nothing I have seen makes me think the Mom should be criminally charged. However, I do believe that the zoo should consider suing her for negligence to recover its damages.
Hmmm, I was thinking the mom would probably try to sue the Zoo. Sure they've got the boy treating. The mom is seeing a pysch for emotional damage. Bastard attorneys like mod wes tegg are all over this
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There are a couple cables running parallel above the wall, too, that the kid would require the kid to squeeze through. The infographic doesn't show that. This is not something a kid could get into in a matter if four or five seconds.
Lol at this daily mail character assassination piece http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-emerges-father-lengthy-criminal-history.htm Tl;dr - the dad has a lengthy criminal record
-People calling this a "senseless death" or some shit like that are being retarded. People lose their fucking minds over "cute" or "majestic" animals and it annoys me to no end. Yeah it sucks that an endangered animal died, but killing it was an easy decision. -Every single parent has taken their eyes off their kid for 15 seconds or so every once in a while, but you probably have a responsibility to be more vigilant when you're in a place like this. -Someone said there were bars or something over the fence, but if a kid could squeeze through them still that's probably not enough. Every zoo I've ever been too has some kind of a full netting around the gorilla exhibit or something to make sure no one is getting in there. -Holy shit that kid fell 15 feet and picked up nothing more than a concussion and some scrapes? Ole Miss just offered him a scholarship.
It was senseless because some stupid bitch brought her 4 year old to the zoo and didn't watch him. It was the only decision they could make, but it was because she was a negligent parent. You dont take your eyes off your kid when he's hanging around a 15 foot pit that has gorillas in it
Ha! I'm a defense lawyer. Not knowing anything about the enclosure or ohio's comparative negligence scheme, I can't really guess on how good of a case the parents would have. In Alabama (a contributory negligence state), it'd go out on summary judgment.
Just saw the diagram above. If I am the zoo, I'm only suing mom as a defensive measure if she sues first.
who knows how athletic this kid was by that I'm sure accurate drawing mother fucker could have double jumped over in a second
I didn't say the parents were blameless. Just referring to the peta youtube comment army saying they should have tranq'd it or something.
It's unthinkable that a 4 year old should be capable of breaching a gorilla exhibit...even an athletic black 4 year old
Think we can all agree that the mom wasn't doing too good of a job and that the Zoo should have taken precautions to prevent children from doing children things, I.e. having more than a 3ft fence blocking a cool waterfall.
That's like the same thing as the monkey island in the Gump and those things are like the size of beavers