Gorilla put down after boy falls into its habitat

[Dr Pepper]

the zoo didn't have a choice but this is a good advertisement for having kids be on leashes. a gorilla died because parents can't control their ****ing child

zoo's suck, this is just another reminder that wild animals are not pets

I said this earlier.....some see it as inhumane but it really would have come in handy in this situation. Instead, some idiot parent has cost the life of an innocent gorilla, while injuring and nearly killing her own child.

 

[Guerzy]

Parents are at fault for not properly supervising their child.

Zoo is at fault for allowing such an access to be available for a 4 year old child to be able to get into the Gorillia's territory.

The Gorilla being shot/killed is not ideal. However nor was having the Gorilla kill the 4 year old child. The "lesser of two evils/outcomes" was the end result in this unfortunate and preventable incident.

 

[Siamese Dream]

Why aren't the parents being held criminally responsible? Or at the very least at risk of having their child taken away due to gross neglect and endangerment?

I think normally in a situation like this for someone to be guilty by omission the person they have a duty of care for has to die, and then they'll get done for manslaughter

But even then I don't think a charge again the parents would hold up, if the zoo people hadn't shot the gorilla it would be more likely that they would be the ones on trial if the kid died

The parents are being judge way too harshly here, I don't think they did anything criminal, I mean what parent can honestly say they never lost sight of their kid for a few moments in a public place

 

[yubbers]

they just convicted some parents for not giving their child the proper medicine.

 

[Dr Pepper]

they just convicted some parents for not giving their child the proper medicine.

The ones who let their kid get bacterial meningitis, ignored the advice of their friend who was also a nurse, and then tried to treat their gravely ill child with peppers and oils, or some stupid ****?

"Oh, we didn't think he was that sick". Idiots.

 

[yubbers]

When will police oppression against Gorillas stop? Gorillas on average will be shot more times than a human being. It's clear that there is a bias from the police. Violence against Gorillas is not the way to go.

#GorillaLivesMatter

 

[Siamese Dream]

they just convicted some parents for not giving their child the proper medicine.

I don't think that is even remotely comparable

 

[yubbers]

I don't think that is even remotely comparable

gross negligence is gross negligence

 

[Siamese Dream]

gross negligence is gross negligence

Except this wasn't gross negligence. It's only if you fail to act when a dangerous situation is occurring that it becomes gross negligence, they didn't fail to act because they obviously alerted people to what was happening and the zoo was able to take action to rectify the situation.

If you don't watch your kid for a few minutes and it falls into a lake and starts drowning, and you take no action to save them, that's gross negligence.

In the other case you're talking about the kid was already ill, and then they failed to properly act.

 

[Disclose]

yeah as much as i blame the parents. there was not much it could be done. that gorilla was gonna destroy the kid in pieces.
i just hope the parents dont try to get some sort of lawsuit going on, cuz that would be frustrating... after they got the gorilla killed, because of their dumb son.

 

[Dr Pepper]

yeah as much as i blame the parents. there was not much it could be done. that gorilla was gonna destroy the kid in pieces.
i just hope the parents dont try to get some sort of lawsuit going on, cuz that would be frustrating... after they got the gorilla killed, because of their dumb son.

Meh, can't blame a kid that young for being curious. Clearly didn't know any better.

That's on the parents, again, for not enforcing boundaries, or rules like "stay next to me". Or, "don't climb on that railing because gorillas are dangerous", that sort of thing. Probably said, "hey, check out the gorillas", and then checked Facebook on their phone while the kid climbed up for a better look. Hard to see over that railing when you're four years old, y'know?

I guess this zoo didn't have a separate section with a viewing window, closer to the habitat?

Like that.

 

[Disclose]

for sure i blame the parents, but dumb son could have just asked daddy to pick him up cuz he wants to see the big monkey.
im sure 4 years old can talk. but yeah.

(and personal opinion, but i think its worse to have a viewing window... as you can see in that giff. kids stressing the hell out of the animals.)

 

[Oogie Boogie]

Justice for Harambe

 

[Kyle93]

Harambe is my hombre

 

[GarbageGoal]

Meh, can't blame a kid that young for being curious. Clearly didn't know any better.

That's on the parents, again, for not enforcing boundaries, or rules like "stay next to me". Or, "don't climb on that railing because gorillas are dangerous", that sort of thing. Probably said, "hey, check out the gorillas", and then checked Facebook on their phone while the kid climbed up for a better look. Hard to see over that railing when you're four years old, y'know?

I guess this zoo didn't have a separate section with a viewing window, closer to the habitat?

Like that.

See. Gorillas are awesome. Owned that little turd.

 

[Kitten Mittons]

Harambe was just trying to teach him how to swim.

 

[Dr Pepper]

 

[67 others]

Kid was in danger, appropriate action was taken. What is the problem?

People harping over the parents not doing their job.....
Where in the article does it say how the kid fell in? Because I have twin 3 and a half year old girls and trust me, they can run, climb and jump in a flash if you don't absolutely hover over them and grab them at the drop of a hat. The slightest distraction gives them time to bolt on you

And if you do play the hoverdad role, prepare for teenagers who grow up to be sheltered princesses with a sense of entitlement and always need you to bail them out.(And if you have boys, extremely beta male whiners of the same vein)

Now, if you show me that the mom decided to perch the kid on the rail to see and then let go while texting, then you will have a point.

 

[Guerzy]

for sure i blame the parents, but dumb son could have just asked daddy to pick him up cuz he wants to see the big monkey.
im sure 4 years old can talk. but yeah.

(and personal opinion, but i think its worse to have a viewing window... as you can see in that giff. kids stressing the hell out of the animals.)

4 year olds can talk and communicate, however, at that age their minds are still very undeveloped and they don't always process a situation correctly, such as asking Mom or Dad for assistance when they should. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Kids are funny, sometimes they will ask you, other times they go ahead and try themselves. The key is to always keep your eye on them. This 4 year old isn't dumb, he's learning, developing and simply doesn't know any better.

 

[Chris Hagen*]

There's also four years of raising the child that should be looked at as well. I have a four year old nephew and he would never in a million years so much as even imagine climbing a fence and jumping into a gorilla enclosure at a zoo. Granted he would never be at a zoo either because that is no way to educate a child, or anyone, about wild animals.

 

[Shrimper]

There's also four years of raising the child that should be looked at as well. I have a four year old nephew and he would never in a million years so much as even imagine climbing a fence and jumping into a gorilla enclosure at a zoo. Granted he would never be at a zoo either because that is no way to educate a child, or anyone, about wild animals.

Oh, you're being serious...

 

[SpookyTsuki]

Yoooo that gorilla darted

I don't care if the gorilla died or not. Parents should be punished

 

[Goonzilla]

There's also four years of raising the child that should be looked at as well. I have a four year old nephew and he would never in a million years so much as even imagine climbing a fence and jumping into a gorilla enclosure at a zoo. Granted he would never be at a zoo either because that is no way to educate a child, or anyone, about wild animals.

So you don't have any kids?..lucky for them.

Imagine the crap the poor things would have to subsist on..and no trips to the zoo either.

 

[67 others]

4 year olds can talk and communicate, however, at that age their minds are still very undeveloped and they don't always process a situation correctly, such as asking Mom or Dad for assistance when they should. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Kids are funny, sometimes they will ask you, other times they go ahead and try themselves. The key is to always keep your eye on them. This 4 year old isn't dumb, he's learning, developing and simply doesn't know any better.

Truth.

That and they think they are invincible until the actually hurt themselves. Like any kid who doesn't know fire hurts till they get burned. My kids have yet to have a serious fall, so they continually climb things higher and higher. climbing up the couch to sit on the back has me particularly jittery(could fall backward and hit their head). Regardless of if I yell, gently tell them no, reward one of them for listening, put one of them in timeout for not listening. They keep doing it and probably will until the time they fall and find out it hurts. Can't even use the bathroom without finding one of them perched there. They also stack things to climb 5 feet off the ground. The only thing I am not resorting to is hitting them.

Reading another source, apparently the kid didn't climb the bars though. The bars around the enclosure were wide enough for him to quickly scamper through and jump and did not have modern secondary safety partitions.

The time that takes is a split second glance without a good grip on their hands.
Anyone who says otherwise either does not have kids, or got lucky and assumes all kids are the same and can be taught the same. Which is horsecrap, and I should know since I have twins and they are complete opposites in personality and motivation and willingness to listen but have been raised exactly the same.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Hopefully the parents don't sue the zoo.

That'd be like a parent leaving a kid in the car on a hot day, and then suing the manufacturer.