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News: Boy falls into gorilla area
Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Vin
4-years-old is old enough to know better. They know to sit down, behave, and stay with your mom/dad. A 4-year-old that's climbing over a fence, at a zoo, into an animal pit is doing TOO much. That's not "a 4-year-old just being a 4-year-old." That's just a disobedient kid with dumb genes. And yes, it's just as much that kid's fault, as it is the parent's fault.
I'm not 100% saying the kid deserved to be brutally murdered, I'm just stating how things are. 4-year-olds are not dumb. They know right and wrong. And they know how to behave at that age. The dumb kid probably just has one of those parents that lets him do anything he wants—the type of parents that lets their kid scream in a restaurant and ignore it. Those type of dumb, disobedient kids, get EATEN up by the real world when they get older. Play SJW all you want, but these are the facts.
...Vin
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Ok what the f***. I am seriously disturbed by this post. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. And where's your research stating that 4 year olds have the same intellectual capacity as adults? No they don't know better. Children gain most of their knowledge from television and pre schooling. Yes, I'm sure an episode of Dora the Explorer showed the potential dangers of interacting with wild animals. I pray to god you never rear a child.
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1. According to the report the boy attempted to go into the habitat extremely quickly before anybody could react. That is not the mother's fault. Other adults on the scene were there and immediately tried to get the boy to no avail.
2. The only entity at fault is the zoo. I am so tired of this blame game of the parents/kid/family. The zoo is at fault FOR NOT PROPERLY MAKING AN ENCLOSURE. If the gorilla habitat was properly secure there would have been no way for anybody to fall in.
3. While its terribly sad the gorilla was killed it was a necessary evil in order to save the boy. Tranquilizing would have agitated the animal and could have caused a serious threat. There are over 150,000 of these gorillas in the wild, so while its endangered it won't have severe repercussions on the remaining population.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by c0caine
This is why no one wants you, this and that face of yours.
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Member Since: 3/30/2012
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my blood boils when i hear that stupid bitch saying "mommys here, mommy loves you etc." in the video, like shut the **** up. She even posted this status on FB
and not a damn thing about the gorilla that was killed. She deserves to rot
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by LemonadeKing
I'm literally stunned that some people in this thread said the child, a 4yr old child should have been shot and killed. This is one of the lowest most vile threads I've ever seen on ATRL
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!!! This thread is just disgusting
People saying a 4 year old should know better
Someone saying natural selection
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Member Since: 11/10/2009
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LORD, the more I read the more I cringe.
"Mommy, I'm gonna jump in the water!"
The mom, knowing he's about to jump, just reacting with "no you won't!"
The kid acting like he's just hangin with a good sis in that video.
The mom saying nothing about the damn ONE IN 900 mountain gorilla who had to die because of her idiotic child.
I've come to terms with the fact that the zoo did what it had to do, but this family is just tragic and unfortunately they won't learn from this.
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Member Since: 11/10/2009
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Originally posted by Phantom
!!! This thread is just disgusting
People saying a 4 year old should know better
Someone saying natural selection
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Please. If you're old enough to attend pre-school, you're old enough to know not to bypass several barriers and jump 10 feet into an enclosure with 400 lb animals.
This is not simply a "don't walk into traffic" sort of incident, this required a concerted effort on the boy's part.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by BTrisc
Please. If you're old enough to attend pre-school, you're old enough to know not to bypass several barriers and jump 10 feet into an enclosure with 400 lb animals.
This is not simply a "don't walk into traffic" sort of incident, this required a concerted effort on the boy's part.
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Yes because 4 year olds have the proper conception as to right and wrong. Study after study has shown that TEENAGERS do not have proper reasoning skills hence why the government tries cases with children differently. This child was 4 years old. They obviously do not properly understand the dangers of a gorilla considering the information they take in through television is that animals are people's friends like in Dora, the Jungle Book etc.
You are absolutely disgusting to think that this was a "concerted effort". Concerted effort to what? get the animal killed? There is seriously something wrong with half of you on this site I swear.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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People making excuses for the mother and accepting her weak Facebook post which makes no mention of the gorilla's life being taken by fault of her own negligence are just as much to blame the next time something like this happens. We shouldn't accept her excuse that things like this can happen any second or her claim that she runs a tight ship. A 4 year old knows better, or I should say a 4 year old brought up with good parenting knows better. People underestimate a 4 year olds intelligence and ability to know right from wrong, this isn't "kids being kids", this is kids behaving the way they are taught to behave. He clearly hasn't been taught much.
If the gorilla wanted to kill or harm the boy it would have. Period. I understand the Zoo's reasoning for killing the gorilla but action should be taken against the mother, otherwise its doubtful she will learn anything from this because from the looks of her facebook post it seems she has yet to.
Just end zoo's altogether.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by phatty033
my blood boils when i hear that stupid bitch saying "mommys here, mommy loves you etc." in the video, like shut the **** up. She even posted this status on FB
and not a damn thing about the gorilla that was killed. She deserves to rot
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Her thanking God. Absolute trash.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by LemonadeKing
I'm literally stunned that some people in this thread said the child, a 4yr old child should have been shot and killed. This is one of the lowest most vile threads I've ever seen on ATRL
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I guess we joined at the right time!
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Member Since: 3/25/2012
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Originally posted by phatty033
my blood boils when i hear that stupid bitch saying "mommys here, mommy loves you etc." in the video, like shut the **** up. She even posted this status on FB
and not a damn thing about the gorilla that was killed. She deserves to rot
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She's disgusting. Absolutely ****ing disgusting. She literally was the cause of an innocent life being taken and she doesn't give a ****. A cold-blooded MURDERER is walking the streets and posting on facebook and no one is batting an eye. How she is still even allowed custody of that child is beyond me.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by phatty033
my blood boils when i hear that stupid bitch saying "mommys here, mommy loves you etc." in the video, like shut the **** up. She even posted this status on FB
and not a damn thing about the gorilla that was killed. She deserves to rot
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Her definition of tight must be equivalent to Frankie Grande's asshole
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Member Since: 5/25/2010
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I stand by my natural selection statement. Natural selection is real, kids. I'm not making it up to be edgy.
Stupid animals (and humans are animals) get eliminated or eaten. It reminds me of this viral gif/video:
The boy above, like boy that climbed into an animal pit, is dumb. He has bad genes. He insists on jumping on the ice and breaking it, knowing there's a body of water beneath him. Lucky for him, someone was there. But if no one was there, he probably would have drowned and that would be the end of him passing on his bad, dumb genes. Both boys are stupid (the animal pit boy probably gets it from his mother's side, judging by her Facebook). It is what it is. Charles Darwin wins.
...Vin
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by MissAmericanDream
Just end zoo's altogether.
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Many endangered and threatened species survive because of zoos and aquariums.
so lets not
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by Goaty
Only on a place as gay and childless as ATRL would a four-year-old acting like a four-year-old be labeled as "dumb."
If anyone is to be commenting on the ins and outs of parenting, it's certainly not the gays. Goodbye.
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And it's certainly not the bronies either, that's for damn sure.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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wtf the gorilla wasn't even harming the child and they just killed it
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Member Since: 11/10/2009
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Originally posted by KyIe
Yes because 4 year olds have the proper conception as to right and wrong. Study after study has shown that TEENAGERS do not have proper reasoning skills hence why the government tries cases with children differently. This child was 4 years old. They obviously do not properly understand the dangers of a gorilla considering the information they take in through television is that animals are people's friends like in Dora, the Jungle Book etc.
You are absolutely disgusting to think that this was a "concerted effort". Concerted effort to what? get the animal killed? There is seriously something wrong with half of you on this site I swear.
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I meant it was a concerted effort that he wanted to see the monkey, even though an average four-year-old would know that is dangerous and that his parent wouldn't approve. I mean, he said "Mommy, I'm going to jump" - he knew damn well what he was doing.
I have worked with preschoolers in an educational setting and while they are obviously very early in development, they have enough common sense to not walk straight into a lion's den.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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1. If you think it's a "concerted effort" for a 3 year old to do this, in an age where talking animal friends are still present more than ever in Cartoons, then nothing more can be said. Tragic.
2. Natural selection is real, yes. Wish try hard uneducated people would stop using it where it doesn't apply though! Cute gif and all, but all it does is show how little you actually know about natural selection. Let your eyes feast upon an actual book one day instead of the stale corny tumblr found gifs you post to add ~humor~ to your tragic posts, and maybe it could be of benefit to you in some way!
...Bye
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by KyIe
3. While its terribly sad the gorilla was killed it was a necessary evil in order to save the boy. Tranquilizing would have agitated the animal and could have caused a serious threat. There are over 150,000 of these gorillas in the wild, so while its endangered it won't have severe repercussions on the remaining population.
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This is my issue with everyone using this argument to justify shooting the gorilla: The boy was not a threat to the gorilla at all. If the gorilla was threatened, the boy would have been killed before the zookeepers were able to kill the gorilla. Why would the animal attack the kid if he isn't the source of the tranquilizer darts (i.e., the threat)? That doesn't make sense. Gorillas are wild animals, but they clearly have a far greater processing capacity than say a lion. This isn't the first time a human has fallen inside a gorilla enclosure, and past outcomes suggest that there is a better way to handle this situation that results in no harm to both species.
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Member Since: 4/9/2012
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Cannot believe some of you put the blame on a damn 4 year old
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