Brookfield Wolf Killed After Visitor Is Attacked (Mind Boggling Dumbass Alert)

Chicago Tribune ^ | Novemer 14, 2003 | Jodi S. Cohen and Brett McNeil

[Rutles4Ever]

A northern gray wolf was shot to death at Brookfield Zoo after it seized the arm of a woman who jumped a fence to reach into its cage, the first time in the zoo's 69-year history that an animal attacked a visitor, zoo officials said Thursday.

Cinnamon Bear, an 11-year-old wolf born and raised at the zoo, was shot once in the chest Wednesday by a zoo police officer after the 100-pound animal clamped down on the woman's arm--and refused to let go--when she apparently tried to pet him.

[Rutles4Ever]

I'm not the PETA type by any stretch, but sometimes you just can't save people from themselves... Wow. I'm thinking if you penetrate a fence somewhere in a zoo, it's not a good thing.

[Fierce Allegiance]

They shoulda shot the fence-jumping bitch instead.

[Temple Drake]

hear, hear.

[Lee'sGhost]

". . .the first time in the zoo's 69-year history that an animal attacked a visitor, zoo officials said ..."

Uh, from the wolf's point of view, he was the one being attacked. I think their record stands.

[HarleyD]

HERE WOLFIE, WOLFIE, WOLFIE.

[steve8714]

Why shoot the wolf? Sterilize the woman instead. Someone this dumb should not be allowed to breed.

[HamiltonJay]

Should have shot the woman, not the wolf.... christ... what moron puts their hand in a cage containing a wild animal?

[AngrySpud]

A couple years ago in Arizona, a granola hiker was confronted by an aggressive rabid fox. The hiker clubbed the fox over the head with his walking stick, but then felt sorry for it. He hunched over the fox and stretched out his hands to share his life energy with the fox -- "ommmmmmmm" ... the fox jumped up and bit him.

[theDentist]

...what moron puts their hand in a cage containing a wild animal?

Monica Lewinski?

[HamiltonJay]

...what moron puts their hand in a cage containing a wild animal?

Monica Lewinski?

I think you vastly overestimate the Ex-Presidents sexual prowess....

[macamadamia]

They should have given the wolf her arm. The wolf was being a wolf. And this moron was being a moron. They both could have lived, one with a smile, the other with a damned valuable lesson.

[CindyDawg]

Why did she do this though? To pet him or to try to free him?. I guess I'm sheltered because I don't see it here but I was at a zoo in JAX and a young girl kept running around , very upset about animals in cages. Maybe all this one wanted was to pet him but even though the thought may cross our minds, most of us know better.

[joesnuffy]

The scary thing is there are not only more of her kind out there...
but they are actually breeding and being converted...
new age Americans...not long for this world...

[joesnuffy]

"Hey wolf...I feel we have a psychic primal connection as I am a "special" human...so lets do lunch sometime"...
"No time like the present" says the wolf

[Cuttnhorse]

What I think is funny, this nitwit woman would never consider sticking her arm in my pickup truck with my rottweiler sitting in the front seat, yet, she saw no danger in trying the same thing with a wolf.

I give up.

[hellinahandcart]

Bah! I wanted to read the article, to see how old the dumb broad is, but the Trib wants TOO MUCH info.

If she's a day over eighteen, they should press criminal charges against her for trespassing and sue her civilly for the value of the wolf and the trauma to zoo employees and visitors.

[Roughneck]

after it seized the arm of a woman who jumped a fence to reach into its cage

This animal did not attack the woman - the woman INVADED the animals space and got what she should have known she'd get.

[theDentist]

Well, I didn't think it fair to ask if it were Juanita Broaderrick (sp?).

[shhrubbery!]

"Hey wolf...I feel we have a psychic primal connection as I am a "special" human...so lets do lunch sometime"...

LOL. But that's probably exactly what was going on in this dingbat's mind.

Reminds me of the guy and his girlfriend who got eaten by the bears in Alaska.

[from occupied ga]

but they are actually breeding and being converted...

What's even worse is that they vote. Where do you think the support of people like Kennedy, Schumer, Boxer, Feinstein, Clinton, Mikulski, Lautenberg, McCarthy, Rangel, Norton, etc. comes from?