“The zoo is responsible even though the victims were idiots.”
Why? And where do you draw the line? How stupid do you allow people to be before you stop asking businesses and institutions to always be responsible for people’s irresponsible actions?
How about the irresponsible actions on the part of the people at the zoo?
The documents they provided to the AZA's safety inspectors stated that the wall was four feet higher than it actually was.
I’m not looking for an argument but the zoo is responsible for what happens on their property. In a perfect world the victims wouldn’t screw with the animals but we live in an imperfect world.
From everything I’ve read, the Tigers weren’t properly contained and the zoo was understaffed which isn’t going to help their case.
Several years back, several people were killed while watching a CART race at MIS. A wheel assembly flew over the wall and catch fence ending up in the crowd. Everything was up to the standards of the day but in the end the speedway ended up paying millions of dollars to the families of the victims. No one was responsible for any foreseeable accident and the people killed were in their seats when they died. Today the catch fence is 11 feet higher and the wheel assemblies on all cars that race there are tethered to the cars.
No zoo should be built where the likelihood of a dangerous animal breaking free is dependent on its state of agitation.
Taunting an animal is wrong, it does not warrant a death penalty. Any more than if someone egged your house, and you respond by blowing their head off with a shotgun, that would be wrong too, even if egging your house was incredibly stupid and immature.
“How stupid do you allow people to be before you stop asking businesses and institutions to always be responsible for people’s irresponsible actions?”
Unless they climb into the cage with an animal, as stupid as they want to be when it comes to keeping dangerous animals from coming into contact with people.