Gorilla killing

[mat]

If you hesitate one second about putting the gorilla a down there is something wrong with you. The outrage over the decision to kill the gorilla outrages me. If it would have happened in a Texas zoo there's a good chance he would have been gunned down by visitors.

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[baddog]

28 minutes ago, mat said:

If you hesitate one second about putting the gorilla a down there is something wrong with you. The outrage over the decision to kill the gorilla outrages me. If it would have happened in a Texas zoo there's a good chance he would have been gunned down by visitors.

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Saw this on the news. No other way to stop him. I hate that it had the be done but I'm not outraged. Had this gorilla slammed this young kid against a wall and killed him, these same people would be outraged because no one shot the gorilla.

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

The parents need to pay better attention to their child. The zoo could have had a better barrier, not their fault IMO, I blame that kid's parents for that whole situation happening. 

[nappyroots]

No open carry at the houston zoo!

[baddog]

1 hour ago, nappyroots said:

No open carry at the houston zoo!

Shut up.

[Englebert]

I'm fairly certain that everyone complaining about the gorilla being shot would have begged someone to shoot the gorilla if he'd been the one in the gorilla cage.

[PAMFAM10]

It's a gorilla. With that being said it sure sucks to have to kill your gorilla because some parent decided to neglect their child. 

[LumRaiderFan]

It's a shame that this happened, but there should be no way a 4 year old could ever manage to get in an enclosure like that.

Should the parents have been watching their kid better...yes.  But you show me any parent that says they haven't lost track of their child for just a short while...there aren't any.

[tvc184]

It is terrible...... 

That the whiners that are up in arms about this dead gorilla, can't trade places with that child and explain to all of us the correct course of action while being slung around by an animal that can rip your head off the moment he gets a notion. 

Tragic? Absolutely. 

The correc response? Same answer. 

[Hagar]

11 hours ago, PAMFAM10 said:

It's a gorilla. With that being said it sure sucks to have to kill your gorilla because some parent decided to neglect their child. 

Amen!   If I just had to place blame, it'd be to the parents.  My sympathy goes to the gorilla and the guy who Had to shoot him.

[BS Wildcats]

On 5/30/2016 at 5:35 PM, Englebert said:

I'm fairly certain that everyone complaining about the gorilla being shot would have begged someone to shoot the gorilla if he'd been the one in the gorilla cage.

Or if it were their child in the gorilla cage.

[stevenash]

20 hours ago, BS Wildcats said:

Or if it were their child in the gorilla cage.

but have you considered that the gorilla might have been a transgender?:

[tvc184]

8 minutes ago, stevenash said:

but have you considered that the gorilla might have been a transgender?:

I think that would only matter if the Obama administration found out the gorilla was trying to use the girl's restroom on a day when he felt feminine. 

[nappyroots]

19 hours ago, stevenash said:

but have you considered that the gorilla might have been a transgender?:

should a transgender suffer the asme fate as the gorilla for using the wrong restroom?

[CRUSHCOACH]

1 hour ago, nappyroots said:

should a transgender suffer the asme fate as the gorilla for using the wrong restroom?

 If one of my Daughters were in the restroom he would at least get an arse whooping !!

[BS Wildcats]

Mom not charged.  And she should not have been.

[Dick Vitale]

What about the black man that was found hung in Ohio? YES hung in 2016....That almost happened at the same time...They say suicide...I say BS.....Can you guys say DISTRACTION? SMH

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

13 minutes ago, Dick Vitale said:

What about the black man that was found hung in Georgia? YES hung in 2016....That almost happened at the same time...They say suicide...I say BS.....Can you guys say DISTRACTION? SMH

I think that happened in Ohio, are you talking about this? 

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[thetragichippy]

Well, it appears nothing has changed in this forum.......lol

 

So, my take......

If I personally were building a gorilla habitat at a zoo, there would be some minimum standards.

1.  Large enough and the environment is as close to their natural habitat as possible.

2.  Secure enough to keep the Gorillas contained.

3.  Secure enough to keep adults out, let alone a hyper 4 year old child. 

Those of us that have raised kids know they sometimes dart off and you loose sight of them. I consider myself an excellent parent(pride myself on it) and when Trent was young he got away from me at Wal-Mart. It happens and that is exactly why there were no charges against the Mother. 

I work at a Bank and I promise you a 4 year old could not walk in the safe. 

[BlackShirts5]

There should be a sign up on every establishment when entering.  We are not your baby sitters. If you cannot control your children you will be removed. To many parents today just let their kids run about with no concerns.  

[thetragichippy]

2 minutes ago, GCMinTheFuture said:

There should be a sign up on every establishment when entering.  We are not your baby sitters. If you cannot control your children you will be removed. To many parents today just let their kids run about with no concerns.  

To me that is a separate issue and I don't disagree with you.

But, 6 months ago if I bet you $500.00 my 4 year old could breach the security of a gorilla habitat at the Zoo, would you of took that bet? 

[tvc184]

23 minutes ago, GCMinTheFuture said:

There should be a sign up on every establishment when entering.  We are not your baby sitters. If you cannot control your children you will be removed. To many parents today just let their kids run about with no concerns.  

Comparing apples and rocks?

Some parents always have and always will not be bad parents. The problem is that even the best parent is not watching a child every single moment. It is like texting when people look at "just for a few seconds" and someone gets killed. Anyone that tells me that they have never taken their eyes off of their child for a few seconds while in the public is either a liar or delusional. 

With all that, I cannot imagine a zoo with a gorilla enclosure/cage where a child can get into it and apparently fairly easily and quickly. That has nothing to do with bad parenting.  

[bullets13]

On June 6, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Dick Vitale said:

What about the black man that was found hung in Ohio? YES hung in 2016....That almost happened at the same time...They say suicide...I say BS.....Can you guys say DISTRACTION? SMH

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"Lennin Johan Torres-Sepulveda, 38, of Atlanta took a picture of himself with a noose around his neck and sent it to his wife right before he hanged himself, the widow Patricia Lane said in an interview with cleveland.com."

the only distraction here is your trying to turn a completely unrelated topic into yet another racial debate.

[Dick Vitale]

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"Lennin Johan Torres-Sepulveda, 38, of Atlanta took a picture of himself with a noose around his neck and sent it to his wife right before he hanged himself, the widow Patricia Lane said in an interview with cleveland.com."

the only distraction here is your trying to turn a completely unrelated topic into yet another racial debate.

You believe that, I have some beachfront property in Idaho that I want you to look at....smh

[stevenash]

24 minutes ago, Dick Vitale said:

You believe that, I have some beachfront property in Idaho that I want you to look at....smh

More realism?  Every problem or woe encountered by a minority is attributable to an Anglo.