Zoo’s Killing of Gorilla Holding a Boy Prompts Outrage

This epitomizes what is wrong with so many Americans' thinking today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/us/zoos-killing-of-gorilla-holding-a-boy-prompts-outrage.html?_r=0

This kid is lucky to be alive. Thankfully the zoo officials acted quickly to put the animal down and save the boy's life. Meanwhile, over 250,000 people have now "signed" the petition mentioned in the story. Leave this poor woman alone! Investigate the incident, sure. Figure out how this kid got into an enclosure that is supposed to be secure from persistent little kids, yeah. But don't you think the zoo is going to do its damnedest to figure that out on its own? There is no need to send CPS to her home. These people need to step off their twitter feed for a couple weeks of the year and live in the real world.

 

animals are more chariest then our children now, how sick of a society we have become.
come on you cant stop every incident the zoo did the best they could

people are only upset because the ape got shot..

 

So like what was mom doing when her 4 year old got into the Gorilla cage? Obviously not paying attention to her kid. The videos of the gorilla and the kid look like the Gorilla was protecting the kid. However, I would have to agree that shooting dangerous animals when a child gets into their cage is the right thing to do. Since the boy survived, all is good. Well not for the gorilla.

 

is there a gorilla heaven in there monkey minds ? candles you got to be kidding.. beam me up scotty plz

 

I wonder what the gorilla was shot with. I would say good shot since they didn't hit the child.

 

Just shut all the zoo's down. People aren't responsible enough. People always say, but some animals would go extinct without zoo's. So start a reserve where only professionals work and take care of the animals. Then start a YouTube channel.

 

Dangerous animals at zoos require tighter security to prevent zoo patrons from being able to easily enter their enclosures.

Lions, tigers and bears...oh my.

Include gorillas on that list.

Secure the enclosures.

 

These fools by all the Koolaid and could care less about waiting for facts.
Someday a huge hand is going to come from the clouds and slap the crap out of them. Or they can wait for Trump to do the same.
The kid that fell into the cage was black. The stupid assumed he was white.

Do you think the above pictured sheep would have reacted in the same fashion if they waited for the facts?

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I heard on the news today, the gorilla was dragging the child along as his head was banging repeatedly against the wall and this was not shown on TV, but it's what made them shoot the gorilla to save the child.

In the same news report, witnesses said they heard the mom and kid arguing where the kid insisted that he's going down there. So it sounds to me the mom was trying to stop him and he simply got away from her.

These people protesting are likely the kind who place a higher value on animal life then human life.

To me the real question is, what can be done by the Zoo to stop a determined child from entering the gorilla pit.

In the future, all kids under the age of 16 will be required to be on a short leash under control of an adult. (just kidding)

 

Mark Dice has a vid on youtube on this very subject. It's sure to go viral. I cant find the vid right now but, it's there. The racist tweets from that vid are a wake up call to all concerned.

 

You're correct.

It's about intrinsic value. Some people do believe an animal's life has the same as, or perhaps greater intrinsic value than a human being.

A young woman was shot in the head at point blank range during a car jacking, here in my hometown of St. Louis, about a week ago. She attempted to protect her 8 month child who was in the backseat.

There wasn't much outrage here. No protests, no calls for justice. No candlelight vigils. Nothing.

A dog is locked in the car during a heat wave and folks want to grab their pitchforks and literally kill the dog owner.

This is not to condone negligence that causes needless suffering for an animal dependent upon us to care for it as a pet, however the comparatively minimal outrage over the death of a young woman and mother to an 8 month old infant...speaks volumes.

We have become desensitized to human suffering. Animal suffering is more inclined to illicit an emotional response and outrage.

 

Gorilla Lives Matter.

 

I really like animals, so I was sad that this poor gorilla had to be killed simply because some idiot let their stupid kid get in his cage. The gorilla was even protecting the stupid kid, helping him pull his pants up, which his parent's were too stupid to do.

Then I hear black people are actually angry because the gorilla was black and the kid was white. I mean WTF, lol. Posting a bunch of hateful tweets about it.

Now, I just find out in this thread that the kid was actually black.


I really feel bad for that gorilla.

Some people can even f--k up a trip to the zoo.

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Sounds like we would have been better off shooting the kid.............

No, I do not blame the mother for letting the child escape her - I blame the family that has a child that would THINK about doing this

 

People are outraged because the parents, thus far, are not being held liable for the incident, where they obviously were irresponsible in keeping their kid in check. There should not have been ANY way for a kid or ANYONE to gain entry to an animals territory so the zoo has lots to answer for too. I would not be at all surprised if this kid's parents are part of the retarded selfie craze which has people infringing on the territories of wild animals all too often as of late. Kid was probably mimicking his dumbass parents.

That being said, this gorilla was obtained for breeding purposes as he is one of an endangered species and humans are merely parasites on the planet when all is said and done, which this terrible incident clearly proves. Obviously their offspring had to be saved, but the world would be better off if these endangered gorillas were able to procreate in peace and idiots like these two so called parents were rendered infertile.

 

I have noticed the same thing. The question is how and why?
The "how" is more obvious than the "why", but I also wonder what we are being setup for.

I was listening to a talk show today and they were discussing how the younger generations react to blood, gore and violence to humans in a movie. Where an older person might feel uncomfortable or disgusted, the younger people find it amusing. This can't be good for the future.

Seems to me a large portion of our society is already prepared to be unusually comfortable with extermination or severe suffering of other people.

 

My position is this, both the Zoo and the mother were negligent and both sides have incurred damages. A court needs to determine the extent of those damages and make each side pay their fair share.

 

Seriously? That's what you heard, huh?

And you were doing so well there with that first sentence, too...

Look...as much as I agree with you that this is a tragedy that should have been avoided, you have no idea what was going through the gorilla's mind at the time. According to the zoo employees on the scene, who knew him a lot better than you do, he was getting spooked by the screams from the onlookers and was starting to present behavior that posed a risk to the child.

Maybe it's me, but that just sounds like a far more plausible read on the situation than the nice gorilla was protecting the kid and helping him with his pants.


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There should have been NO way for that boy to get to the animal.

Males of a species are not the essential element of species survival. The females are.

 

I agree--if the onlookers had had the good sense to not react like they were watching a horror movie instead of a real event, the child would have been at much less risk and the gorilla might still be alive.

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There has to be a certain amount of genetic variation. One is not enough.

 

After watching how the gorilla was handling the child, they made the right choice. No way should a 4 year old be able to get in there in the first place. The zoo needs to be held accountable. The poor gorilla is the victim.

 

The boy was black

 

Don't care.

 

7.4 billion humans infesting this planet.
Only 789 Silverback gorillas left on this planet.
Sorry but I'm going to side with the Silverback.
The mother is an idiot and should have her breeding rights revoked.

 

Humour really eludes you