SeaWorld Dolphin Caught on Camera Biting Girl in Orlando: Report

NBC Miami ^ | Sunday, Dec 2, 2012

[Hot Tabasco]

Don’t you think the park is at fault?

Obviously not but YOU DO?

[passionfruit]

I had a dog that loved to play fetch. But if you held the stick too long, she would take it from you. The problem is that she was totally focused on the stick. Small kids didn’t understand that, and would hold the stick too long. I had to take the stick away from a few over the years, because I was afraid the dog would go for the stick even if the kids fingers were in the way.

This dog would never knowingly hurt anyone, but when it came to p,ay, she was serious!

Pretty sure this was the case with the dolphin. There is a reason Sea World tells guests not to let the dolphins see the plate.

[Persevero]

On the one hand, as a parent, I don’t think I’d consent to the idea of my child feeding wild animals.

On the other hand, if I were there, and they had a program going, and it had been going on safely for years, I might think, “It must be safe, there are other kids doing it, their underwriters wouldn’t insure them if this was unusually dangerous.”

[Andy'smom]

LOL!

[OKRA2012]

Neither the kid nor the parents were following the park’s instructions. The dolphin was just doing his job.

[Verginius Rufus]

No, the park is not at fault. Jeb Bush is at fault.

(They have to get ready in case he runs in 2016.)

[freedumb2003]

The kid's new choice for tuna:

Cetuna! Now with extra dolphin!

[Mouton]

Too bad they did not have a pyrannah tank.

[editor-surveyor]

Stupid, stupid, stupid!

Dolphins are trained by feeding, like any other animal; they don’t have degrees in human behavior.

[GeronL]

bump to that

[jrcats]

As a kid we would feed the deer at Deer Acres near Frankenmuth, Mich. I don’t know if its still there but I’m talking about the 1950’s. We never had problems but kids still need to be careful. Holding the food where the dolphin could get it wasn’t its fault but the parents. They needed to teach the child to keep the food from the vision of the dolphin until they were ready to feed it. The kids nowadays are not taught like we were growing up.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I would add to that: parents today can’t parent, for fear of the almighty state.

[GeronL]

They don’t know how. They weren’t raised normally themselves

[CityCenter]

Dolphins aren’t fish. :-)

[IbJensen]

Dolphins should be eaten and not displayed where innocent children can be attacked by them.

[ican'tbelieveit]

That is true. The children of baby boomers, or children of baby boomers children. Indulgence to the extreme.

[Hot Tabasco]

Dolphins aren’t fish. :-)

To repeat what I said in Post #2:

"And yes I said fish.........if it looks like a fish, swims like a fish and smells like a fish, it's a f'n fish!"

[InvisibleChurch]

agreed

[Finny]

That’s right! Be proud in your willful ignorance!

[Morgana]

that too....