Gulfarium gator eats boy's turtle: 'Oh no alligator, let it go'

TheDestinLog ^ | October 11, 2010 | Angel McCurdy

[Daffynition]

RIP

[Daffynition]

>>...she feels he deserves more compensation for what he saw.<<

[Drango]

LOL ...nature is a b!tch.

[GeronL]

The kid learned about nature.

Isn’t that was a zoo is for?

Compensation.... for what??

[Nervous Tick]

Welcome to the Wild Kingdom!

[Celtic Cross]

"but she feels he deserves more compensation for what he saw."

Money grubbing cow. He saw nature in action. Its a damn turtle, anyway. Not like its a dog or something.

[Daffynition]

This story is a hoot!

[Daffynition]

Like the aquarium *owed* them some responsibility for *their* pet and *their* choice. Had to have been ‘Bama voters.

[Daffynition]

LOL

[dsutah]

Well to him, the turtle was like a dog! For heaven’s sake, did the kid have to watch that? Maybe the place could have put the kid’s turtle in another tank or something. Why the alligator pen? Good grief people, you could have a little bit more sympathy than that!

[bboop]

Compensation? He got a cool science workshop on how nature really works. Might become a conservative right then and there. And you could also do a Hypothesis Work Sheet: “What do you THINK might happen if you put a small, tasty pet in an alligator tank?”

DUH.

[Celtic Cross]

Nom nom nom.

[Crawdad]

Comments at the link are great.

[cripplecreek]

There are other turtles in the gator enclosure. Sounds like everybody felt that one more would be fine.

[9422WMR]

Welcome to the jungle, we got what you need.....

[Daffynition]

Mom should have made the turtle wear a helmet into the enclosure.

[tanuki]

God help me, but that’s FUNNY!

[hinckley buzzard]

as workers put the slider into the alligator exhibit, where two other red-eared sliders already live. Gulfarium officials said that the alligator, Gracie, had just been hand-fed and that the gators normally don’t express interest in the turtles.

I wonder that it never occurred to the zookeepers that to an alligator raised or kept in captivity and fed by handlers every day or whenever, seeing flesh being put into the water by handlers signalled "dinner" to the reptilian brain.

Stupid move. I don't "normally" have any interest in turtles either but if someone at a restaurant served one up to me on a platter I would assume it was meant to be eaten.

[bigheadfred]

more compensation

They need to have the kid watch when they feed the live rodents to the snakes.

[Grizzled Bear]

If only this had been a Disney production, the turtle would have escaped in a whimisical manner after a suspenseful interlude. Unfortunately for the turtle, reality is not a Disney production.

Still, it’s not exactly easy for a kid to see a beloved pet consumed. Many FReeper pet owners would have themselves a pair of gator skin boots.