Toddler falls in gorilla pit

[Ryika]

Pah, you're not a thing in this way.

 

[Mise]

This whole time, the real animal was man.

*fade to black*

*roll credits*

 

[Ryika]

*and as the curtain falls the people in the crowd show their real faces. Outrage, fury, hate. Induced by the words that were uttered by the Artist. "How dare he compare us to mere animals?!" a person yells and the crowd follows his words with rageful cheering. "We are better than this! We are civilized!" they yell as they kick and smash their heads against the seats*

 

[warpus]

1. Why was the barrier so crappy that a small child can get past it? Build a proper barrier between infants and gorillas, you idiots

2. Why shoot the gorilla? Why is death necessary? Don't have they tranquilizer guns handy? Do those just take a while and might not have been good enough at the time?

3. We are keeping these animals in zoos, I think anything that manages to fall into one of the enclosures should be fair game for the gorilla. It's on us to design proper enclosures if we're going to be locking up dangerous animals

4. #3 is mean and I don't want little kids to die, but there ain't no way that kid should have ever been able to get anywhere near to that gorilla

 

[Kyriakos]

This whole time, the real animal was man.

*fade to black*

*roll credits*

Deep, brah

 

[Tahuti]

I find the thread title amusing, to be brutally honest.

 

[Bootstoots]

Not as amusing as the other way around. Could you imagine if a gorilla fell into a toddler pit?

 

[BvBPL]

2. Why shoot the gorilla? Why is death necessary? Don't have they tranquilizer guns handy? Do those just take a while and might not have been good enough at the time?

That's exactly the reason a live gun was necessary.

 

[Rashiminos]

http://www.salon.com/2016/05/31/the..._black_lives_mattered_as_much_as_one_animals/

The limits of white compassion: Imagine if Black lives mattered as much as one gorilla’s

Okay... that's one of the quickest and most dizzying heel-f-heel turns I've seen this year. The universe has experienced a dramatic surge in irony lately.

 

[Ryika]

What else did you expect from Salon.com? It's like buzzfeed, just more racist.
Look at the comments, not even their own readers buy this nonsense.

If anything I'm surprised that the article doesn't try to spin that into some sort of "They were so quick to shoot the Gorilla because h was black!"-story.

 

[warpus]

That's exactly the reason a live gun was necessary.

Oh yeah alright, if that's the reason then I am fine with it.

As for Salon last I checked it's a case of idiots hiring idiots to write articles for other idiots.

 

[aelf]

The outrage against outrage machine is alive and well.

 

[Bootstoots]

I feel like self-righteous outrage, including meta-outrage, is the emotion that the internet does the best job of enhancing.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I feel like self-righteous outrage, including meta-outrage, is the emotion that the internet does the best job of enhancing.

It's a lot easier without faces in front of you, or your own being known.

I don't think the zoo keepers' actions were wrong, but I agree that a 3 year old making it into a gorilla pit unaided comes off as an inane degree of security in design. It should be pretty freaking difficult for an adult to get in without access to keys or some such.

 

[Ryika]

In the few Zoos around here it's pretty easy to get into almost any enclosure if you want to. In fact, they almost look exactly the same as the one in the video, with a wall that one could just climb over and, theoretically, jump down.

They usually operate on the idea that people would not be stupid enough to jump down intentionally. But of course that doesn't prevent accidents like this from happening.

I don't think it's actually known what exactly happened, but it looks like without help a small child cannot look into that enclosure, so maybe she has helped him up a bit so that he can look down and then when she didn't pay attention for a while he climbed up completely, or he himself just climbed onto that wall.

But either way, as radical as PETA usually is, the guy handling their twitter account made good points without going overboard as the rest of the internet did.

 

[Commodore]

First off, they should have had proper double caging to prevent the boy getting in.

The enclosure at the zoo is fine. I know because I have been there a lot.

Secondly, they should have sent a keeper familiar to the gorilla into the enclosure to
manage the extraction of the boy.

They used friendly zoo keepers to give commands to the gorillas to go inside their little shelters. The other two gorillas complied, but the gorilla with the child wouldn't listen to any commands.

Fourthly, I think the gorilla thought it was protecting the boy from the noisy hominids.

That's exactly what the gorilla was doing and that's precisely why they had to shoot it. It was obvious this gorilla wasn't going to let anyone come near that child. Any zoo keeper that would have gone in to extract the child would have been brutally mauled by that gorilla, so the only option was to kill it so someone could get in there to get the kid out. Especially since time was of the essence because it turns out the kid suffered a concussion from the fall into the enclosure. At that age, medical attention for a concussion needs to be given rather quickly.

 

[Flying Pig]

I'm also not convinced that gorillas understand quite how fragile human toddlers are, due to their only experience being with babies that are built like, well, gorillas.

 

[Kozmos]

I don't think that is true, Tarzan fared pretty well.

 

[luiz]

The outrage against outrage machine is alive and well.

As is the outrage against the outrage against the outrage, apparently.

 

[NovaKart]

Oh yeah alright, if that's the reason then I am fine with it.

As for Salon last I checked it's a case of idiots hiring idiots to write articles for other idiots.

They're not idiots exactly, they just sold their souls for clickbait.

They also now seem to have a quota of 20 articles about Donald Trump a day.