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Brookfield Wolf Killed After Visitor Is Attacked (Mind Boggling Dumbass Alert)
Chicago Tribune ^ | Novemer 14, 2003 | Jodi S. Cohen and Brett McNeil

Posted on 11/14/2003 5:57:12 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brookfieldzoo; darwin; dumbass; wolf; zoo
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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.
1 posted on 11/14/2003 5:57:13 AM PST by Rutles4Ever
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To: Rutles4Ever
They shoulda shot the fence-jumping bitch instead.
2 posted on 11/14/2003 5:59:05 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (Caution - Blast zone. Turn of all 2-way radios.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
hear, hear.
3 posted on 11/14/2003 5:59:28 AM PST by Temple Drake
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To: Rutles4Ever
". . .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.

4 posted on 11/14/2003 5:59:48 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: Rutles4Ever
HERE WOLFIE, WOLFIE, WOLFIE.
5 posted on 11/14/2003 5:59:58 AM PST by HarleyD
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To: Rutles4Ever
Why shoot the wolf? Sterilize the woman instead. Someone this dumb should not be allowed to breed.
6 posted on 11/14/2003 6:00:07 AM PST by steve8714
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To: Rutles4Ever
Should have shot the woman, not the wolf.... christ... what moron puts their hand in a cage containing a wild animal?
7 posted on 11/14/2003 6:02:08 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Rutles4Ever
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.
8 posted on 11/14/2003 6:03:09 AM PST by AngrySpud (Behold, I am The Anti-Crust (Anti-Hillary))
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...what moron puts their hand in a cage containing a wild animal?

Monica Lewinski?

9 posted on 11/14/2003 6:03:35 AM PST by theDentist (Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
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...what moron puts their hand in a cage containing a wild animal?

Monica Lewinski?

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

10 posted on 11/14/2003 6:05:53 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Rutles4Ever
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.
11 posted on 11/14/2003 6:07:59 AM PST by macamadamia
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To: Rutles4Ever
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.
12 posted on 11/14/2003 6:10:59 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: AngrySpud
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...
13 posted on 11/14/2003 6:12:48 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: Rutles4Ever
"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
14 posted on 11/14/2003 6:15:46 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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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.
15 posted on 11/14/2003 6:16:33 AM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: Rutles4Ever
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.
16 posted on 11/14/2003 6:16:34 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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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.
17 posted on 11/14/2003 6:19:05 AM PST by Roughneck (9 out of 10 Terrorists prefer Democrats, the rest prefer Saddam Hussein)
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To: HamiltonJay
Well, I didn't think it fair to ask if it were Juanita Broaderrick (sp?).
18 posted on 11/14/2003 6:20:07 AM PST by theDentist (Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
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"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.

19 posted on 11/14/2003 6:22:19 AM PST by shhrubbery!
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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?

20 posted on 11/14/2003 6:22:40 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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