Sims2789
Fool me once...
I've lived in the area my whole life and that zoo has a reputation for shoddy, unsafe facilities (though nothing happened recently until now), so I was suspicious when the media said the attack occurred after he taunted the tiger. Plus, even if he taunted it, it shouldn't have gotten out unless the cage was too short.
I was right. Turns out the fence, when the lazy media actually bothered to measure it (after a few days of speculating about how it could have jumped a 20 foot fence), was really 12 feet (a little under 4 m) high, not 20 (~6.5 m), and there was no ramp allowing the tiger to just waltz out of its cage.
Still, the zoo is installing an electric fence to zap visitors who get too close to the tiger, seemingly still rejecting the idea that the attack occurred because they didn't properly maintain their facilities.
The fact is, regardless of whether he taunted the tiger, having a 12 foot high fence is negligence. Their gorilla cages are rather unsafe too, and rather small. Wonder what'll happen when some little kid sticks his tongue out at one of their starving gorillas? Will the ape have gone mad from being crammed into a tiny cage for its entire life, and rip the kid's tongue out?
Maybe if they'd spent a penny to take better care of their animals and made their zoo safer for humans then they wouldn't have to pay millions to the people they hurt when they need money to pay for their medical bills.
I was right. Turns out the fence, when the lazy media actually bothered to measure it (after a few days of speculating about how it could have jumped a 20 foot fence), was really 12 feet (a little under 4 m) high, not 20 (~6.5 m), and there was no ramp allowing the tiger to just waltz out of its cage.
Still, the zoo is installing an electric fence to zap visitors who get too close to the tiger, seemingly still rejecting the idea that the attack occurred because they didn't properly maintain their facilities.
The fact is, regardless of whether he taunted the tiger, having a 12 foot high fence is negligence. Their gorilla cages are rather unsafe too, and rather small. Wonder what'll happen when some little kid sticks his tongue out at one of their starving gorillas? Will the ape have gone mad from being crammed into a tiny cage for its entire life, and rip the kid's tongue out?
Maybe if they'd spent a penny to take better care of their animals and made their zoo safer for humans then they wouldn't have to pay millions to the people they hurt when they need money to pay for their medical bills.
