That being said, the guy went nuts and probably the animals were starving and really hungry. The animals were killing each other too.
That sounds like the kind of post where someone would say, "Why didn't they just shoot the gun out of his hand?"
Tell you what, we'll give you night vision goggles and tranquilizer darts to go into thick brush to hunt aggressive lions and tigers and bears. Even if you managed to pop one with a dart, you'd be dead before the drug knocked him out.
The cops did what they had to do to secure the area.
“IF they had night vision goggles, they could have used more darts and less bullets.”
Maybe if it had been only one or two big cats, but there were over 30. Not practical. I’m surprised the only thing that got eaten by the cats was one of the monkeys.
I dont think you’ll find to many towns with a population of 25,000 that have a stock pile of night vision glasses. They said they had only 4 dart guns available anyways.
I’ll take the word of the expert...
Animal Expert Jack Hanna was called in to help the deputies, and he said though animal lovers would have preferred the beasts be tranquilized and recaptured, the deputies really had no choice.
“You cannot tranquilize an animal like this at night time,” he explained. “They hide in the bushes. In the dark, they don’t know what they are doing. You could be jeopardizing a lot of human lives.”
Hitting a tiger with a dart will make him mad. The drugs won’t take effect fast enough to stop that tiger from attacking.
People have been killed trying to do so. The sheriff tried it, but even the people from the zoo said it was to risky.