Posted on 05/30/2016 12:30:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
for the boy’s parents to be punished for not adequately supervising their child.
A Facebook page called “Justice for Harambe” received more than 41,000 “likes” within hours of its creation. The page’s description says it was created to “raise awareness of Harambe’s murder” and includes YouTube tributes and memes celebrating the western lowland gorilla and admonishing zoo officials.
“Shooting an endangered animal is worse than murder,” a commenter from Denmark named Per Serensen wrote on the page. “Soooo angry.”
Lt. Steve Saunders, a spokesman for the Cincinnati Police Department, told the Cincinnati Enquirer that they have no plans to charge the child’s parents.
That news didn’t stop tens of thousands from signing multiple online petitions calling for Cincinnati Child Protective Services to investigate the boy’s parents — who have not been identified — for negligence.
“I’m signing because a beautiful critically endangered animal was killed as a direct result of her failure to supervise her child,” one signee wrote. “I don’t blame the zoo staff for the decision they made, I’m sure they’re heartbroken.”
“If she’d watched her child he wouldn’t have been in the gorilla enclosure in the first place,” the commenter added.
A petition on Change.org asks for legislation to be passed that creates “legal consequences when an endangered animal is harmed or killed due to the negligence of visitors.” The petition has amassed more than 40,000 signatures.
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Gorilla lives matter?
C’mon, cmon. It’s # MonkeyLivesMatter.
I’m sure that these same people up in arms about the “murder” of the ape have no prob with the hundreds of babies murdered that same day. Anthropomorphic theater, adopting legal juris prudence terminology created for humans by humans to call the rescue of a child “murder” of an animal.
I would be interested in the caliber of weapon used. And shot placement. You know, just in case.
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If the parents have been clueless and negligent, why not just handle it like any store or other public venue would-sue them for the cost to replace the expensive animal...
Kids are SO fast & can get away from you before you can
imagine it. - Our son once got away from me & ran under
the hippo “fence of sorts” (it was many years ago at the
Memphis, TN zoo). It wasn’t a fence, just a metal bar that
a small child could duck under easily & fall into the
hippopotamus pool. - Surely they’ve improved the facility
since then (46 yrs. ago).
If that poor old monkey could have dragged that kid into his lair, we could have had a real life Tarzan. “Bunelo! Bundelo! Kreegah!” But no, they had to shoot to the father who would have instilled discipline, responsibility and appreciation. Sheesh.
Mob psychology run amok. It might just as easily have gone the other way. They could all be screaming at the zoo for not securing the enclosure.
No, I think actually BLM was upset, because this was being called a case of white privilege. Except that the folks saying that had not noticed the baby was, um, black.
Now, I’m sure that if it had been a white baby, PETA would have just shot the baby to keep it from disturbing the endangered animal.
Oops, forgot to /off Sarc on that last post
Let's face it. It's big business. It's all about breeding and there's BIG bucks.
Jack Hanna on FOX this morning said the situation was human life vs animal life- seconds counted & taking out the gorilla was the right decision.
Mentally ill, or retarded.
Yeah, it’s sad. Yeah, the parents need to watch their kid. In the end, it is an animal.
1st world problems, shake my head.
Exactly. An animal’s life was terminated for no other reason than the utter stupidity of a dumb human. I have seen this before and always wonder if the animal will react defensively and in one situation to defend it’s baby. I hope these people are sued.
I only saw the latter part of the interview, Hanna called the decision a “no-brainer” but he also seemed somewhat critical of the parents.
Yup. If it’s a choice between a human or an animal, save the human.
These PETA bastards can KMA. I’d love to give ‘em a meat-powered beatdown.
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