Mass misbehavior leaves zoo a mess

Buffalo News | By TOM BUCKHAM

[Temple Owl]

Always charge a fee. Something for nothing is too often construed as being worth nothing.

[mafree]

Looks like the wrong animals are kept at the zoo.

[moyden]

Welfare has a habit of producing animals. Just ask the Romans.

[Random Access]

Looks like the wrong animals are kept at the zoo.

Exactly.

[FreedomPoster]

Would love to see a picture of this "event". Nothing on the Buffalo News web site.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

The St. Louis Zoo has always been free and I don't recall ever having this problem - what a shame!

[Liberal Classic]

"Mass misbehavior?" My newspeak detector is registering a signal. I think they mean riot.

[Phantom Lord]

I think they mean riot.

No. It was just a release of pent up frustration from an urban dwelling in an economically declining city.

Oh wait, that was the excuse in LA. Will have to come up with a new one for Buffalo.

[ArrogantBustard]

National Zoo (Washington, DC) is free, all the time. No problems there. It's in a relatively nice neighborhood. Baltimore Zoo is not free, and is in a fairly scuzzy neighborhood. No problems there, either, but I'd not want to be there if they opened the gates for free one day.

AB

[go_usna]

I have one word for these people.... phsycos!
-Go_USNA

[denfurb]

I love the St. Louis Zoo!!! Have you seen the new elephant habitat?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

$1 still seems reasonable for "Launch a Lorikeet" Day.

[Ohioan]

As a Zoo lover, who appreciates the glory of Creation, I find this behavior beyond merely repulsive. I would hope that all who perpetrated offenses against the public order, and particularly any who attempted acts of cruelty to caged animals, unable to protect themselves or flee, be prosecuted to the full extent of the Law.

I doubt if New York law, at present, allows appropriate penalties. A fair system would start with a public flogging, and then allow each of these teenagers long enough in a darkened cell to completely a privately healing, before they need face anyone who saw them flogged. That just might make enough of an impression to turn some lives around, before the pattern of unaccountability for their actions absolutely destroys any potential that they may have in life.

As it is, probably the worst that will happen to most of them--if anything at all--will be having to bite the insides of their mouths to keep from laughing, while some sanctimonious adult delivers a stern lecture.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Moonman62]

Ft. Lauderdale just had a free two day air show with close to 500,000 people attending on each of two days and it was fairly trouble free. Most likely the zoo didn't have enough people for crowd control.

[razorback-bert]

The victums

"Rainbow Lorikeet
Trichoglossus haematodus
Photo courtesy/copyright Cleland Wildlife Park, Adelaide, Australia

[boothead]

In Buffalo, How would they know which side of the fence the Zoo was??????????

[yankeedame]

Parents dangling small children over the railings outside the bear and lion and tiger exhibits, despite clearly posted danger warnings..

Yeah, and if something happened to their li'l darlings they could sue, sue, sue...and (sad to say)win.

[fnord]

your pic (unviewable) pops up a password box ... you might want to ask the admin mod to remove the post.

[tet68]

Imagine if it was in Ithica, City of Evil!

[Hacksaw]

Visitors pulled down branches on which the birds were perched and then let go, catapulting the birds into the air.

Sounds like a Warner Bros cartoon.