Posted on 05/29/2016 2:38:41 PM PDT by EveningStar
The killing of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo after a 4-year-old boy tumbled into the ape's enclosure triggered outrage and questions about safety, but zoo officials called the decision to use lethal force a tough but necessary choice.
More than 2,000 people signed a petition on Change.org that sharply criticized the Cincinnati Police Department and the zoo for putting down the animal and called for the child's parents to be "held accountable for their actions of not supervising their child."
Cincinnati police on Sunday said the parents had not been charged, but that charges could eventually be sought by the Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Damn right, 2DV.
If shooting a thousand silverback gorillas would have been necessary to save that little boy, I'd have done it in a heartbeat...
I like how he steadied the lad when he was about to fall into the water.
Recently, at a Little League game delay caused by a torrential thunderstorm with lightening close by. Many of the children were running around in the rain instead of waiting under the covered pavilion. Where were the parents? Protected by the pavilion & taking videos of their children! I guess that’s why there are angels. We need them now more than ever.
Based on a short portion of the video I saw earlier, I’d say yes. The gorilla was flinging the boy through the water hard.
He certainly wasn’t a Michael Brown, was he?
Do you have a source for that video?
Marinated Magilla Gorilla?
“Imagine if the gorilla had a name.”
Like Cecil.
The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey
http://www.ew.com/article/1990/06/22/dark-romance-dian-fossey
Exactly
“The parents, though, should have to pay for the animal.”
And more
That is not the entire event. At some point in time, the gorilla starting flinging the boy around, even through the water, very hard. I saw that footage earlier today on the news.
But I defy you to suggest, that Robert E. Lee is descended from an ape."
No, I saw it on the news. Don’t recall if it was local or network. One of the witnesses in the news report at the link above said the gorilla was throwing the boy 10 feet in the air.
This is the link I mentioned:
The video didn’t show that. I watched it and it was just interviews and eyewitness accounts.
I wonder how much all the screaming and commotion agitated the gorilla and if it wouldn’t have turned out differently if that hadn’t been going on.
click the link in #97 wait for the long ad to play, then watch the entire report.
Also, I saw what I have described. Believe me or not, that is up to you.
Thanks. There is quite a discrepancy in the eye witnesses accounts about it. One says the gorilla wasn’t trying to hurt the boy, and then, as you say, another witness said he was flinging the boy 10 feet into the air. And yet the boy is home safe and sound. Must be a real tough kid.
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