[DouglasKC]

Boy, you have an active imagination. Evidently you’ve either never had kids, or you are so old you have no idea what they are like these days. How many thousands of toddlers have been to that zoo and did not jump into the cage? I am sure his mother had him under control.

I've have kids and grandkids. You have NO idea of the parenting skills of the kid and mom. You have no idea of the circumstances of exactly what happened. If ONE kid can get into the gorilla habitat then ANY kid could get into the gorilla habitat. This was a 3 year old with no reasoning skills at all. However it happened and no matter what the parenting skills of the mother/father the end result is that the kids life is infinitely more valuable then the life of the gorilla. The amount of venom you're directing toward the parent and the kid because the zoo chose the the life of the kid over that of the gorilla is just plain alien.

[Vermont Lt]

Please show me where I indicated that I thought the animal’s life was more important.

Have you listened to the video on that tape, because if you haven’t you should. You can hear how out of control that kid is.

I am amazed that you give the parents a complete pass.

That animal did not need to die. If the parent, like every single other parent that has ever come into the zoo, had kept their child under the proper control none of this would have been necessary.

Please bone up on your reading comprehension because you are not reading the words. Your are inserting your own idiotic point of view on others words.

And please, let this go. You and I clearly have had different life experiences. I am figuring it was your kids that I had to drive home in college because they were not responsible enough to handle themselves.